Oregon · Public charity
Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend
Develop tourism industry in bend,oregon
- $902k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $158,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 29
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $394k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $902k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $1.3M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $1.7M | 55% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $791k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petrich Properties | $450,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bend Park and Recreation Foundation | $450,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Discover Your Northwest | $403,000 | 3 | 4% |
| High Desert Museum | $264,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Museum at Warm Springs | $260,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Warm Springs Community Action Team | $250,500 | 1 | 5% |
| Bend Park and Recreation District | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Oregon Trail Alliance | $172,057 | 3 | 11% |
| Bendfilm Inc | $166,750 | 4 | 6% |
| Bend Bmx | $151,287 | 2 | 69% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petrich Properties | $450,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bend Park and Recreation Foundation | $450,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Discover Your Northwest | $403,000 | 3 | 4% |
| High Desert Museum | $264,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Museum at Warm Springs | $260,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Warm Springs Community Action Team | $250,500 | 1 | 5% |
| Bend Park and Recreation District | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Oregon Trail Alliance | $172,057 | 3 | 11% |
| Bendfilm Inc | $166,750 | 4 | 6% |
| Bend Bmx | $151,287 | 2 | 69% |
| Upper Deschutes Watershed Council | $142,565 | 1 | 6% |
| Natureconnect Central Oregon | $138,368 | 2 | 24% |
| Trout Unlimited Inc | $132,174 | 3 | 0% |
| Tower Theatre Foundation Inc | $129,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Lay It Out Events | $125,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Cascades Theatrical Company | $109,350 | 2 | 8% |
| Out Central Oregon | $109,000 | 4 | 41% |
| Bend Pickleball Club | $90,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nwx2 LLC | $85,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Scalehouse | $70,000 | 3 | 18% |
| 1988 Entertainment LLC Concerts in Bend Or | $65,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Old Mill District | $62,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Bend Yoga Festival | $57,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Central Oregon Media Group | $49,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Central Oregon Center for the Arts | $43,750 | 4 | 34% |
| Oregon Nordic Club | $39,400 | 1 | 22% |
| Father S Group | $35,000 | 2 | 19% |
| The Greenhouse Cabaret Little Shop of Horrors | $27,250 | 2 | n/a |
| The Greenhouse Cabaret Little Shop of Horrors | $20,750 | 1 | n/a |
| High Desert Climbers Alliance | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Old Mill District | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Downtown Bend Business Association | $20,000 | 2 | 4% |
| High Desert Makers | $19,875 | 1 | n/a |
| Deschutes County | $19,660 | 1 | n/a |
| 4 Peak Presents | $17,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Oregon Natural Desert Association | $17,000 | 1 | 1% |
| World Muse | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bend Endurance Academy | $16,582 | 1 | 2% |
| Certainty | $16,250 | 1 | n/a |
| High Desert Music Collective LLC Hdmf | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| In the Pocket Artists | $14,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Redbird Foundation | $14,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Wanderlust Tours | $13,875 | 1 | n/a |
| Dirty Freehub | $11,625 | 1 | 19% |
| Bend Photo Tours | $7,875 | 1 | n/a |
| Playa | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Paula Dreyer Bend Creative Music Project | $5,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Deschoops LLC | $5,625 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($55k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Roundhouse Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Central Oregon Visitors Association · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Ford Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend with peer funders
About Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend
- How much does Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend give?
- Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend reported 20 grants totaling $901,553 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 29 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Recreation & Sports (30%), Environment (15%).
- Who are Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Petrich Properties ($450k), Bend Park and Recreation Foundation ($450k), Discover Your Northwest ($403k).
- Does Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Roundhouse Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, Central Oregon Visitors Association.
- Where is Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend based?
- Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend is based in OR.
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