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AUSTIN CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU
Marketing austin nationally and internationally as a premier business and leisure destination.
$128k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants
1
Communities
$118k
Largest
01What you fund
0174% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2021.
Arts & Culture$507kRecreation & Sports$55kEnvironment$45kPhilanthropy$40kOther$228k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
deep eddycontemporaryenhancepease parkpooldowntown implement
2020
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2021
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2021 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $118k
$118,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
- FRENCH LEGATION MUSEUM$118,000
- HUSTON-TILLOTSON COLLEGE$10,365
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$508k · 5 repeat orgs$367k to everyone else
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
7
Total granted
$508k
$249k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+33%
+40%
Still filing today
100%
71%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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
- ATAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE PARAMOUNT THEATRE CO2× · 2019–2020 · $174k · revenue +282%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE HISTORIC MILLETT OPERA HOUSE3× · 2019–2022 · $138k · revenue +44%
- AWAUSTIN WOMAN'S CLUB2× · 2019–2020 · $110k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- JPJOURDAN-BACHMAN PIONEER FARMSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $47k · revenue +511%
- BSBARTON SPRINGS CONSERVANCYone grant, 2018 · $45k · revenue -40%
- DADOWNTOWN AUSTIN ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
The Austin Area Commission for the Arts
Applaud and advance all arts by welcoming diverse, creative individuals to inspire our community.
Philanthropy
2
Austin Rowing Club
To foster national and international amateur sports competition and to promote health and wellness within the community, provide outdoor recreational opportunities, and foster an appreciation for the natural environment.
Recreation & Sports
3
Downtown Dallas Parks Conservancy
Community Improvement
4
Austin Temple of Cao-Dai Tay-Ninh I
Religion
5
Houston Museum of Decorative Arts
The mission of the houston museum of decorative arts is to preserve, enhance, present, and promote the decorative art collection of the late anna safley houston for public understanding, education, and enjoyment; to increase public…
Arts & Culture
6
Austin Film Festival Inc
To further the art, craft and business of screenwriting
Arts & Culture
7
The University of Texas Law School
Provide support to the University of Texas School of Law.
Education
8
North Austin Foundation
The foundation operates a facility to promote recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.
Health
9
TexArts Association for Visual &
TexARTS is an arts education and performance destination that builds character, professionalism, and careers. Its mission is to cultivate a thriving arts community by exposing all people to the visual and performing arts.
Arts & Culture
10
Downtown Austin Parks Llc
Downtown Austin Parks LLC mission is to create a vibriant, historic, and active urban space at the heart of Austin, Texas.
Arts & Culture
11
Museum of East Texas
Developing and maintaining a museum devoted to the procurement, care, and display of objects of lasting historical and cultural interest. The museum offers a variety of public programs throughout the year and is committed to visual arts…
Arts & Culture
12
Austin City Art Fund
To support the production and exhibition of art and film
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Contemporary Austin Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Austin Womans Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$507,000Other$227,555Recreation & Sports$55,000Environment$45,000Philanthropy$40,057
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 AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE PARAMOUNT THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE HISTORIC MILLETT OPERA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRENCH LEGATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN WOMAN'S CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN - LAGUNA GLORIA ↗
- Who funds JOURDAN-BACHMAN PIONEER FARMS ↗
- Who funds BARTON SPRINGS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN AUSTIN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DEEP EDDY INC ↗
- Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PEASE PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
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.
Austin Community Foundation IncTX25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Better Business Bureau · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Applied Materials Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Austin Parks Foundation · St David's Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 organisation AUSTIN CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS OF DEEP EDDY INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 8.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 030453788 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS OF DEEP EDDY INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 81% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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