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Discover Long Island Inc

Based on Long Island in Hauppauge, NY, Discover Long Island, Inc., contributes to the economic development and quality of life on long island by promoting the region as a world-class destination for tourism, meetings and conventions, trade shows, sporting events, and related activities.

$307k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$199k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.2MArts & Culture$378k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $257k
$19,629
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
East End Tourism Alliance$198,921
Montauk Chamber of Commerce$58,128
Hamptons Visitors Council$30,711
Long Island Wine Country$19,629
Riverhead Chamber of Commerce$15,910
North Fork Promotion Council$13,320
N Shore Promotion Alliance$8,443
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%Hamptons Visitors Council: $32k → 7%Hamptons Visitors Council: $32k → 7%Hamptons Visitors Council: $31k → 7%N Shore Promotion Alliance: $20k → 7%n shore promotion alliance: $20k → 7%N Shore Promotion Alliance: $20k → 7%N Shore Promotion Alliance: $10k → 7%east hampton chamber of comm: $18k → 7%East Hampton Chamber of Comme: $17k → 7%North Fork Promotion Council: $23k → 7%North Fork Promotion Council: $13k → 7%North Fork Promotion Council: $13k → 7%north fork promotion council: $13k → 7%North Fork Promotion Council: $13k → 7%North Fork Promotion Council: $13k → 7%Montauk Chamber of Commerce: $60k → 7%montauk chamber of commerce: $59k → 7%Montauk Chamber of Commerce: $58k → 7%Montauk Chamber of Commerce: $58k → 7%Montauk Chamber of Commerce: $58k → 7%Montauk Chamber of Commerce: $58k → 7%Montauk Chamber of Commerce: $58k → 7%Montauk Chamber of Commerce: $36k → 7%Hamptons Visitors Council: $32k → 7%hamptons visitors council: $22k → 7%Hamptons Visitors Council: $18k → 7%East End Tourism Alliance: $199k → 7%East End Tourism Alliance: $43k → 7%East End Tourism Alliance: $40k → 7%Long Island Wine Council: $40k → 7%Riverhead Chamber of Commerce: $28k → 7%East End Tourism Alliance: $20k → 7%East End Tourism Alliance: $20k → 7%Long Island Wine Council: $20k → 7%Long Island Wine Country: $20k → 7%Long Island Wine Country: $20k → 7%Long Island Wine Council: $20k → 7%East End Tourism Alliance: $20k → 7%Long Island Wine Country: $20k → 7%east end tourism alliance: $19k → 7%East Hampton Chamber of Comme: $18k → 7%Riverhead Chamber of Commerce: $18k → 7%Riverhead Chamber of Commerce: $16k → 7%riverhead chamber of commerce: $16k → 7%Riverhead Chamber of Commerce: $16k → 7%Riverhead Chamber of Commerce: $16k → 7%Riverhead Chamber of Commerce: $16k → 7%Long Island Wine Council: $14k → 7%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.
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 7 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$1.5M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-31%
0%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MC
    MONTAUK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $446k · revenue +26%
  • EE
    EAST END TOURISM ALLIANCE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $362k · revenue -31% · 47% of their budget
  • HV
    HAMPTONS VISITORS COUNCIL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $225k

Funded once

  • EH
    EAST HAMPTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue -85%
  • SH
    SAG HARBOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 9 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONTAUK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $445,962 · OtherMONTAUK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCHAMPTONS VISITORS COUNCIL INC: $224,633 · OtherHAMPTONS VISITORS COUNCIL INCRIVERHEAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $173,067 · OtherRIVERHEAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCElong island wine council inc: $153,156 · Otherlong island wine council incNORTH SHORE PROMOTION ALLIANCE INC: $98,451 · OtherNORTH SHORE PROMOTION ALLIANCE INC+1 more: $17,860 · OtherEAST END TOURISM ALLIANCE INC: $361,612 · Community ImprovementEAST END TOURISM ALLIANCE INCNORTH FORK PROMOTIONAL COUNCIL INC: $89,881 · Community ImprovementNORTH FORK PROMOTIONAL COUNCIL IN…+1 more: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,113,129Community Improvement$461,493

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONTAUK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $445,962 over 8y, 16% of budgetEAST END TOURISM ALLIANCE INC: $361,612 over 7y, 47% of budgetRIVERHEAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $173,067 over 8y, 35% of budgetlong island wine council inc: $153,156 over 7y, 74% of budgetNORTH FORK PROMOTIONAL COUNCIL INC: $89,881 over 6y, 13% of budgetEAST HAMPTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $17,860 over 1y, 23% of budgetSAG HARBOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% 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.

  • Who funds MONTAUK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST END TOURISM ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERHEAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds long island wine council inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH FORK PROMOTIONAL COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST HAMPTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAG HARBOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Discover Long Island Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Discover Long Island Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 9 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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