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Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau at a glance

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Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau

Our mission is to market dallas globally to benefit our community and visitors.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$25MRecreation & Sports$5.9MEmployment$710kEducation$600kArts & Culture$485kPublic Safety & Disaster$250kScience & Tech$179kYouth Development$155k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NORTH TEXAS FWC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE$1,500,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GFC DBA ELITE ACADEMY LEAGUE: $120k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

The national association of intercollegiate athletics (naia)'s mission is to promote the education and development of students through intercollegiate athletics participation.

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2
Usa Track & Field Inc

USA Track & Field drives competitive excellence and popular engagement in the sport of track and field, long distance running and race walking. The mission of USA Track & Field is to foster sustained competitive excellence in elite…

Recreation & Sports
3
Federation of International Lacrosse Inc

World lacrosse is the international olympic committee recognized international federation for the sport of lacrosse. as such, it governs the sport globally working with 90+ member national governing bodies and four (4) currently recognized…

Recreation & Sports
4
Usa Weightlifting Inc

The mission of usa weightlifting shall be to support united states athletes in achieving excellence in olympic and world competition and to support, promote, and educate a diverse and inclusive community of weightlifting and the use of the…

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5
United States Soccer Federation

To work in service to soccer and ignite a national passion for the game. work with members, partners, donors, and board to grow awareness and participation of the game, through soccer everywhere, soccer success, and soccer investment.

Recreation & Sports
6
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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7
National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association

The national intercollegiate soccer officials association ("nisoa") is an organization of more than 4,500 soccer officials which trains, certifies, and provides qualified soccer referees for the college soccer community throughout the…

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8
Usa Taekwondo Inc

The purpose of usa taekwondo shall be to enable united states athletes to achieve sustained competitive excellence in the sport of taekwondo in the united states and to serve as the national governing body for the sport of taekwondo under…

Recreation & Sports
9
United States Youth Soccer Association Inc

To foster the physical, mental, and emotional growth and development of america's youth through the sport of soccer at all levels of age and competition.

Recreation & Sports
10
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
11
American National Standards Institute

To enhance both the global competitiveness of u.s. business and the u.s. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.

Public Benefit
12
Western Athletic Conference

The conference is committed to providing student-athletes an exemplary university experience - both on and off the field of play. with high standards of integrity at the core of our athletic and academic excellences, our goal is to unlock…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Usa Volleyball; the most unlike its peers is Robotics Education & Competition Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DALLAS TOURISM PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION: $24,107,340 · Community ImprovementDALLAS TOURISM PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATIONNORTH TEXAS FWC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH TEXAS FWC ORGANIZING COMMITTEEVARSITY BRANDS HOLDING INC DBA VARSITY SPIRIT LLC (NCANDA): $1,495,000 · OtherVARSITY BRANDS …National Automobile Dealers Association: $600,000 · OtherNational Automo…MMA CREATIVE: $485,000 · OtherMMA CREATIVEProfessional Triathletes Organisation Ltd: $475,000 · OtherProfessional Tr…PLAYER DEVELOPMENT LLC: $350,000 · OtherPLAYER DEVELOPM…INFORMA EXHIBITIONS US CONSTRUCTION & REAL ESTATE INC: $255,000 · OtherINFORMA EXHIBIT…INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE: $250,000 · OtherO'REILLY AUTOMOTIVE STORES: $235,000 · Other+7 more: $555,000 · Other+7 moreNational Collegiate Athletic Association: $1,580,000 · Recreation & SportsINTERCOLLEGIATE WOMENS LACROSSE COACHES ASSOCIATION INC: $330,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA VOLLEYBALL: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA Climbing: $93,000 · Recreation & SportsROBOTICS EDUCATION & COMPETITION FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 · EducationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc: $79,000 · EducationGOALS FOR CHILDREN: $120,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $100,000 · Science & TechTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA: $35,000 · Youth Development
Community Improvement$25,607,340Other$4,700,000Recreation & Sports$2,103,000Education$679,000Human Services$120,000Science & Tech$100,000Youth Development$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDALLAS TOURISM PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION: $24,107,340 over 1y, 68% of budgetNational Collegiate Athletic Association: $1,580,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FWC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: $1,500,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetROBOTICS EDUCATION & COMPETITION FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNational Automobile Dealers Association: $600,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE WOMENS LACROSSE COACHES ASSOCIATION INC: $330,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUSA VOLLEYBALL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUSA Climbing: $93,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDESTINATIONS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION: $90,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc: $79,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA: $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDALLAS WHITE ROCK MARATHON F/K/A WHITE ROCK MARATHON: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDALLAS CUP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Dallas Tourism Public…Amazonsmile Foundation
Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District CorporationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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