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Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc at a glance

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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.

$875k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.5MRecreation & Sports$580kCommunity Improvement$151kReligion$90k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $830k
$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARLINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $90k → 11%DESTINATIONS INTERNATIONAL: $6k → 14%ARLINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $50k → 11%ARLINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $40k → 11%ARLINGTON BAPTIST COLLEGE: $90k → 11%ARLINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $40k → 11%INTERNATIONAL CORRIDOR VISION: $75k → 11%ARLINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $35k → 11%INTERNATIONAL CORRIDOR VISION: $60k → 11%RANGERS EVENTS: $250k → 11%ARLINGTON MUSIC HALL: $200k → 11%ARLINGTON MUSIC HALL: $175k → 11%ARLINGTON MUSIC HALL: $110k → 11%ARLINGTON MUSIC HALL: $45k → 11%Downtown Arlington: $45k → 11%DOWNTOWN ARLINGTON MANAGEMENT CORP: $25k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILIO: $225k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILIO: $224k → 11%THEATRE ARLINGTON: $200k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILIO: $190k → 11%ARLINGTON MUSEUM OF ART: $175k → 11%THEATRE ARLINGTON: $175k → 11%ARLINGTON MUSEUM OF ART: $150k → 11%THEATRE ARLINGTON: $100k → 11%ARLINGTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $100k → 11%ARLINGTON MUSEUM OF ART: $90k → 11%THEATRE ARLINGTON: $90k → 11%THEATRE ARLINGTON: $80k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILIO: $65k → 11%ARLINGTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $65k → 11%ARLINGTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $60k → 11%FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION: $60k → 11%ARLINGTON DANCE THEATRE: $55k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILIO: $55k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION ARLINGTON: $55k → 11%THEATRE ARLINGTON: $55k → 11%ARLINGTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $50k → 11%ARLINGTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $50k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILIO: $50k → 11%ARLINGTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $50k → 11%THEATER ARLINGTON: $50k → 11%ARLINGTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $40k → 11%ARLINGTON DANCE THEATER INC: $20k → 11%ARLINGTON DANCE THEATRE: $20k → 11%ARLINGTON DANCE THEATRE: $10k → 11%FRAME4FRAME FESTIVAL INC: $30k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 10 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$4.2M
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+120%

Still filing today

90%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FO
    Friends of the Levitt Pavilion - Arlington
    8× · 2017–2025 · $924k · revenue +41%
  • AM
    Arlington Museum of Art Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $830k · revenue +736%
  • TA
    THEATRE ARLINGTON INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $750k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • AB
    ARLINGTON BAPTIST UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $90k · revenue +120%
  • FF
    FRAME4FRAME FESTIVAL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • DI
    DESTINATIONS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +99%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Arlington Chorale

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Embracing Arlington Arts

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,…

Arts & Culture
3
Arlington Philharmonic

Advancement of music education

Arts & Culture
4
Alexandria Singers

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Arlington Community Access Corporation dba Arlington Independent Media

AIM supports, educates, and inspires diverse creators and fosters independent media production through community television, radio, and digital arts.

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6
Arlington High School Choir Booster Club

To perform and compete in competitions

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7
Arlington Arts & Enrichment Program dba Arlington Common

Dedicated to enhancing the community through creative exploration of the arts and wellness.

Education
8
Arlington Historical Society
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9
Arlington Community Band

To provide band concerts to the public

Arts & Culture
10
Alexandria Symphony Orchestra

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…

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11
Arlington Community Media Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Arlington Players

Community theater education and promotion

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Levitt Pavilion - Arlington; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arlington Museum of Art Inc: $830,000 · Arts & CultureArlington Museum of Art IncTHEATRE ARLINGTON INC: $750,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE ARLINGTON INCArlington Music Hall: $530,000 · Arts & CultureArlington Music HallArlington Symphony Orchestra: $255,000 · Arts & CultureArlington Symphony OrchestraFriends of the Levitt Pavilion - Arlington: $924,110 · Recreation & SportsFriends of the Levitt Pa…RANGERS EVENTS: $580,000 · OtherRANGERS EVENTSARLINGTON DANCE THEATRE INC: $105,000 · OtherARLINGTON DANCE THE…The Arlington Master Chorale: $40,000 · OtherFRAME4FRAME FESTIVAL INC: $30,000 · Other+1 more: $6,000 · OtherInternational Corridor Vision: $135,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN ARLINGTON MANAGEMENT CORP: $70,000 · Community ImprovementARLINGTON BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$2,365,000Recreation & Sports$924,110Other$761,000Community Improvement$205,000Education$90,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of the Levitt Pavilion - Arlington: $924,110 over 8y, 18% of budgetArlington Museum of Art Inc: $830,000 over 9y, 19% of budgetTHEATRE ARLINGTON INC: $750,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetArlington Music Hall: $530,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetArlington Symphony Orchestra: $255,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetInternational Corridor Vision: $135,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetARLINGTON DANCE THEATRE INC: $105,000 over 4y, 47% of budgetARLINGTON BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $90,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDOWNTOWN ARLINGTON MANAGEMENT CORP: $70,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetThe Arlington Master Chorale: $40,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetDESTINATIONS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Arlington Tomorrow Fo…Amazonsmile Foundation
Arlington Tomorrow FoundationTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arlington Tomorrow Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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