· Public charity
Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc
The arlington convention & visitors bureau markets and develops the city as a premier sports, business and leisure entertainment destination to achieve new tourism spending benefits for the visitor industry, community and its residents.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $830k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILIO | $225,000 |
| THEATRE ARLINGTON | $200,000 |
| ARLINGTON MUSIC HALL | $200,000 |
| ARLINGTON MUSEUM OF ART | $150,000 |
| ARLINGTON DANCE THEATRE | $55,000 |
| Downtown Arlington | $45,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FOFriends of the Levitt Pavilion - Arlington8× · 2017–2025 · $924k · revenue +41%
- AMArlington Museum of Art Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $830k · revenue +736%
- TATHEATRE ARLINGTON INC7× · 2017–2025 · $750k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- ABARLINGTON BAPTIST UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $90k · revenue +120%
- FFFRAME4FRAME FESTIVAL INCone grant, 2019 · $30k
- DIDESTINATIONS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +99%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Chorale's mission is to create a rich cultural experience for the community by performing high-quality concerts that showcase well-known pieces and also introduce our audiences to compelling new works.
Embracing Arlington Arts is an independent citizens group comprised of arts supporters whose mission is to advance the vibrancy and health of the arts and culture in Arlington County, Virginia through advocacy and awareness programs,…
Advancement of music education
The Alexandria Singers is a non-profit education and mixed voice choral group that performs predominately American popular music, including pop tunes, show tunes, golden oldies, country and jazz - the only one of its kind in the Washington…
AIM supports, educates, and inspires diverse creators and fosters independent media production through community television, radio, and digital arts.
To perform and compete in competitions
Dedicated to enhancing the community through creative exploration of the arts and wellness.
To provide band concerts to the public
The mission of the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra is to provide quality, affordable and accessible music in the greater metropolitan area of Northern Virginia through its highly respected, innovative, professional performances and education…
To provide an electronic forum for the free exchange of information and ideas which reflect the talents, skills, interests, concerns, and diversity of the Arlington Community.
Community theater education and promotion
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Levitt Pavilion - Arlington and the most unlike its peers is Destinations International Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Friends of the Levitt Pavilion - Arlington ↗
- Who funds Arlington Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ARLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds Arlington Music Hall ↗
- Who funds Arlington Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds International Corridor Vision ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN ARLINGTON MANAGEMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds The Arlington Master Chorale ↗
- Who funds DESTINATIONS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arlington Tomorrow Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.