· Public charity
Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend
Develop tourism industry in bend,oregon
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of BEND VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU DBA VISIT BEND’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $322k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $575k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DISCOVER YOUR NORTHWEST | $158,000 |
| NATURECONNECT CENTRAL OREGON | $128,368 |
| BEND PARK AND RECREATION DISTRICT | $100,000 |
| CENTRAL OREGON TRAIL ALLIANCE | $98,587 |
| BEND PICKLEBALL CLUB | $90,000 |
| LAY IT OUT EVENTS | $32,000 |
| OLD MILL DISTRICT | $32,000 |
| 1988 ENTERTAINMENT LLC CONCERTS IN BEND OR | $32,000 |
| HIGH DESERT MUSEUM | $31,500 |
| BEND FILM | $30,000 |
| THE FATHER'S GROUP JUNETEENTH | $24,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,313 |
| OUT CENTRAL OREGON | $21,000 |
| THE GREENHOUSE CABARET LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS | $20,750 |
| DESCHUTES COUNTY SOLID WASTE | $19,660 |
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k 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
- BPBend Park and Recreation Foundation3× · 2022–2025 · $450k · revenue +168%
- DYDiscover Your Northwest3× · 2022–2025 · $403k · revenue +14%
HIGH DESERT MUSEUM4× · 2022–2025 · $265k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- WSWARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAMone grant, 2023 · $251k · revenue -52%
- BPBEND PARK AND RECREATION DISTRICTone grant, 2024 · $200k
- UDUPPER DESCHUTES WATERSHED COUNCILone grant, 2023 · $143k · revenue -51%
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.
Develop tourism industry in bend,oregon
To bring the community an annual high quality art festival
Envision Bend brings diverse stakeholders together to educate, engage and empower all members of the Bend community to have a voice in our citys future. We are the stewards of the vision for our city and we ensure that the vision remains…
Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.
To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.
Preserve, promote and celebrate our local history
The Oregon Made Creative Foundation supports the efforts of storytellers, filmmakers, and artists statewide to attain sustainable careers in the arts, especially the digital arts. The Foundation, under its #OregonMade banner, strives to…
A safer Central Oregon culture empowered to advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Creating an environment where businesses, their employees and our community excel together through collaboration, advocacy, resources and leadership to meet bend's business challenges.
Economic development of rural Oregon towns
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Out Central Oregon and the most unlike its peers is Redbird Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 50 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 Bend Park and Recreation Foundation ↗
- Who funds Discover Your Northwest ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM AT WARM SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds WARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM ↗
- Who funds Central Oregon Trail Alliance ↗
- Who funds BENDFILM INC ↗
- Who funds BEND BMX ↗
- Who funds UPPER DESCHUTES WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NATURECONNECT CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds TOWER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADES THEATRICAL COMPANY ↗
- Who funds OUT CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds BEND PICKLEBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds SCALEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OREGON CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds OREGON NORDIC CLUB ↗
- Who funds FATHER S GROUP ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BEND BUSINESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD MUSE ↗
- Who funds Bend Endurance Academy ↗
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 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
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 Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Warm Springs Community Action Team — 28% of income from government
- Upper Deschutes Watershed Council — 25% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Scalehouse — 10% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Desert Association — 9% of income from government
- Tower Theatre Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Playa — 5% of income from government
- Out Central Oregon — 3% of income from government
- Bendfilm Inc — 3% of income from government
- Central Oregon Trail Alliance — 1% of income from government
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.