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Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau

Promoting conventions, travel and tourism in and to the city of austin, and providing related services to convention attendees, travelers, and tourists.

$128k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
Organizations funded FY2021
50%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$118,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$118,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$30M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 50% of the organizations Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20212$128k50%
FY20203$225k0%
FY20197$302k43%
FY20186$219k100%
FY20175$298kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$1.1MPhilanthropy$40k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Austin Theatre Alliance$338,50032%
Austin Womans Club$140,00038%
Austin Club$137,50033%
Daughters of the Republic of Texas$118,00017%
The Contemporary Austin Museum Inc$58,00020%
Pease Park Conservancy$53,33420%
Preservation Austin$47,000118%
Barton Springs Conservancy$45,00012%
St Edwards University$45,00010%
Downtown Austin Development Corporation$45,0001n/a
Friends of Deep Eddy Inc$40,057181%
Friends of the Parks of Austin$38,1901n/a
Huston-Tillotson University$28,36520%
City of Austin$23,5001n/a
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America$14,74013%

Where it is load-bearing

Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAustin Theatre Alliance: $338,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetAustin Womans Club: $140,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetAustin Club: $137,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetDaughters of the Republic of Texas: $118,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetThe Contemporary Austin Museum Inc: $58,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPease Park Conservancy: $53,334 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPreservation Austin: $47,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBarton Springs Conservancy: $45,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSt Edwards University: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Deep Eddy Inc: $40,057 over 1y, 81% of budgetHuston-Tillotson University: $28,365 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Society of the Colonial Dames of America: $14,740 over 1y, 3.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX29.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc · Better Business Bureau · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Moody Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Austin Parks Foundation · Still Water Foundation · The Powell Foundation · St David's Foundation · The Summerlee Foundation · Ibm International 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.

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About Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau

How much does Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau give?
Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau reported 2 grants totaling $128,365 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Philanthropy (3%).
Who are Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Austin Theatre Alliance ($339k), Austin Womans Club ($140k), Austin Club ($138k).
Does Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc, Better Business Bureau.
Where is Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau based?
Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau is based in TX.

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 15 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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