· Public charity
Augusta Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc Dba Destination Augusta
The augusta convention and visitors bureau develops and promotes our community, inspiring people to have unforgettable experiences.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $1,043,219 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,881,959 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $838,740 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $218k
- $250k+1 grant · $627k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER AUGUSTA SPORTS COUNCIL | $627,321 |
| GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL | $147,000 |
| AUGUSTA CANAL AUTHORITY | $71,000 |
| MORRIS MUSUEM OF ART | $37,500 |
| AUGUSTA PRIDE INC | $34,768 |
| LUCY CRAFT LANEY MUSUEM OF BLACK HISTORY | $32,500 |
| BAND OF BROTHERS AUGUSTA INC | $29,500 |
| AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY | $19,000 |
| HISTORIC AUGUSTA | $12,458 |
| PHINIZY CENTER FOR WATER SCIENCES | $12,002 |
| AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL | $10,170 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- GAGREATER AUGUSTA SPORTS COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +17% · 82% of their budget
- GAGREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $448k · revenue +70%
- ACAUGUSTA CANAL NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $303k · revenue +22% · 83% of their budget
Funded once
- ASAUGUSTA SOUTHERN NATIONALSone grant, 2017 · $30k
- SRSAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +18%
- MSMAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -40%
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.
To restore and operate the historic augusta colonial theater for the artistic, educational, and charitable benefit of the community. the colonial theater will be a far-reaching, viable, restored historic theater in the downtown of our…
Collect, preserve, and disseminate knowledge and information in relation to genealogical, historical, biographical, and heraldic data.
The primary purpose of the augusta arts council, inc., is to preserve and maintain the historic stand alone theatre experience for future generations. all activities promoted are designed to preserve and maintain the historic augusta…
Augusta heritage center in elkins, west virginia, united states, is a non- profit organization which fosters the scholarly study and practice of traditional arts in music, dance, craft, and folklore.
Preserve african american heritage
The augusta county historical society promotes interest in the rich and diverse history of the augusta county area. its membership is comprised of people near and far who support the discovery, research, and preservation of documents,…
To raise private support from individuals, corporations, foundations, and others to further the interests of augusta university. other purposes of the foundation are to establish and maintain endowments and provide the administration for…
Augusta expo is a nonprofit dedicated to presenting entertainment, cultural experiences, and educational and outreach programs that aid in economic development, agricultural revitalization, and community enrichment.
To enrich the educational and ethical development of local youth by fostering critical thinking, social consciousness, and personal development through affordable fine arts instruction, performances, and workshops.
To make savannah a destination for art and culture in the southeast by supporting established and emerging artists, engaging a diverse community with creative programming, and developing awareness and appreciation of the arts.
To build community through the arts.
Historic atlanta advances social justice and community by saving historic places
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Augusta Players Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sacred Heart Cultural Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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 GREATER AUGUSTA SPORTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA CANAL NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Augusta Pride Inc ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PHINIZY CENTER FOR WATER SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC COAST CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE STARTUPS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LE CHAT NOIR INC ↗
- Who funds GA State Society-Natl Society Daughters of the AM Revolution ↗
- Who funds Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GERTRUDE HERBERT INSTITUTE OF ART INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Porter Fleming Fdn Tr Ua · Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc · The Knox Foundation · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Kirby Family Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Augusta Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc Dba Destination Augusta 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.