· Public charity
Erie County Visitors & Convention Bureau
To encourage economic development of erie county, ohio through promotion of tourism and to encourage and promote, through advertisement and other educational and informational means, travel to and visitation in erie county, ohio by nonresidents, for pleasure, business, and other purposes.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $503k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BURNHAM ORCHARDS INC | $44,700 |
| VERMILION FUN INC | $43,550 |
| GMA ASSET MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC | $41,450 |
| KOROBKIN HOSPITALITY GROUP | $39,850 |
| SANDUSKY AREA MARITIME ASSOCIATION | $39,300 |
| DRIFTWOOD FARM LLC | $39,229 |
| PAPER MOON VINEYARDS LLC | $37,091 |
| GROOVE BAR AND GRILL LLC | $36,950 |
| TALLTOWN INVESTMENTS LLC | $36,900 |
| 3B'S FOODS LLC | $36,700 |
| MHD CORP | $27,915 |
| SANDUSKY SCOOPS LLC | $18,250 |
| MLFLW LLC | $15,000 |
| OHIO ATHLETIC COMMITTEE | $15,000 |
| ALANAS LLC | $10,860 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 22 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, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $539k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGREATER SANDUSKY PARTNERSHIP3× · 2022–2024 · $555k · revenue +287% · 27% of their budget
- MSMain Street Vermilion Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $33k · revenue +37%
- LELAKE ERIE SHORES AND ISLANDS2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- SWSTRATEGIC WEAPONS AND TACTICAL TRAIone grant, 2024 · $300k
- CMCLEVELAND MURAL CO LLCone grant, 2024 · $58k
- OCOHIO CO & INDPT ERIE CO AG SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $55k · revenue -16%
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.
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.
To be the most influential and respected association of business professionals in Northwest Ohio shaping a positive business environment that promotes the exchange of goods and services to make a profit.
To advance tourism, assist in new and existing business development and promote economic, professional, cultural and civic interests in the iowa great lakes area.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
To positively impact the area's economy by marketing Charlevoix as an overnight travel destination.
To provide value to our members through advocacy, leadership and service by enhancing the economic climate of our business community.
To assist in the retention and creation of jobs, improve local services, broaden the tax base and encourage capital investment in paulding county, ohio.
To provide information to the community in Ontario County through publications, promotions, and marketing. The Chamber concentrates on membership, economic prosperity, organizational image and impact and organizational effectiveness.
To promote town of rising sun indiana.
Erie canalway heritage fund, inc. works to preserve the extraordinary canal corridor heritage, to promote the corridor as a world class tourism destination, and to foster vibrant communities connected by the waterway.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Improve the quality of the siouxland area
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 85 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: The Mylander Fdn-2001 · Erie County Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Erie County Visitors & Convention Bureau funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Erie County Visitors & Convention Bureau. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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