North Dakota · Public charity
Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc
The Fargo-Moorhead-West Fargo CVB works to position our distinctive community as a desirable destination and gateway to the region and nation, resulting in a superior Quality of Life for its residents.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 63
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 3 | $1.1M | 67% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $600k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $255k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $384k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 63 | $738k | 97% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $37k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $706k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moorhead Youth Hockey Association | $600,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Northern Prairie Performing Arts | $550,000 | 2 | 31% |
| City of Moorhead | $506,659 | 2 | n/a |
| Concordia College Corporation | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fargo-Moorhead Science Museum | $300,000 | 1 | 6% |
| FM Rotary Foundation | $240,383 | 1 | 78% |
| Fargo Metro Baseball Association | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Red River Zoological Society | $112,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Red River Regional Marksmanship Ctr | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| City of West Fargo | $97,396 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moorhead Youth Hockey Association | $600,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Northern Prairie Performing Arts | $550,000 | 2 | 31% |
| City of Moorhead | $506,659 | 2 | n/a |
| Concordia College Corporation | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fargo-Moorhead Science Museum | $300,000 | 1 | 6% |
| FM Rotary Foundation | $240,383 | 1 | 78% |
| Fargo Metro Baseball Association | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Red River Zoological Society | $112,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Red River Regional Marksmanship Ctr | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| City of West Fargo | $97,396 | 2 | n/a |
| Fargo Air Museum | $86,250 | 2 | 8% |
| Historical & Cultural Society of Clay County | $75,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Fargo Theatre Management Corporation | $65,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Fargo Area Sports | $54,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Plains Art Museum | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Cass County North Dakota Historical Society | $50,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Holiday Inn | $45,145 | 1 | n/a |
| Radisson | $23,342 | 1 | n/a |
| Element | $20,543 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Fargo | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Delta by Marriott | $18,226 | 1 | n/a |
| Hilton Garden Inn & Suites | $17,596 | 1 | n/a |
| La Quinta (Added 67 Rms in February 2019) | $15,766 | 1 | n/a |
| Residence Inn | $15,419 | 1 | n/a |
| Kelly Inn Bw Inn & Suites | $15,402 | 1 | n/a |
| Northern Plains Botanic Garden Society | $15,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Courtyard by Marriott | $14,760 | 1 | n/a |
| Home 2 Suites | $14,536 | 1 | n/a |
| Holiday Inn Express I-94 | $13,731 | 1 | n/a |
| Clubhouse Hotel & Suites (Under Contruction) | $13,714 | 1 | n/a |
| Homewood Suites | $11,941 | 1 | n/a |
| Courtyard - Fargo | $10,110 | 1 | n/a |
| Tri-City Soccer | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Staybridge Suites | $9,815 | 1 | n/a |
| Ramada (Was Baymont & Doublewood) | $9,649 | 1 | n/a |
| Country Inn & Suites | $9,364 | 1 | n/a |
| Candlewood Suites | $8,393 | 1 | n/a |
| Americinn Motel | $8,080 | 1 | n/a |
| Doubletree | $7,934 | 1 | n/a |
| Homewood Suites | $7,889 | 1 | n/a |
| Expressway Suites | $7,236 | 1 | n/a |
| C'Mon Inn | $7,224 | 1 | n/a |
| Wingate | $7,008 | 1 | n/a |
| Biltmore Hotel & Suites | $5,848 | 1 | n/a |
| Hampton Inn | $5,786 | 1 | n/a |
| Microtel (Opened Mid August) | $5,768 | 1 | n/a |
| Fargo Inn & Suites (Formerly Select Inn) | $5,728 | 1 | n/a |
| Mainstay Suites | $5,682 | 1 | n/a |
| Sleep Inn & Suites | $5,088 | 1 | n/a |
| Four Points by Sheraton (Under Construction) | $5,085 | 1 | n/a |
| Airport Dome Days Inn | $4,728 | 1 | n/a |
| Woodspring | $3,320 | 1 | n/a |
| Super 8 - Main Ave | $3,140 | 1 | n/a |
| Americinn Motel (Formerly Arbuckle- Nov 18'14) | $2,712 | 1 | n/a |
| Quality Suites (Formerly Comfort Suites) | $2,438 | 1 | n/a |
| Red River Inn | $2,277 | 1 | n/a |
| Econolodge West (Formerly Comfort Inn - West) | $2,085 | 1 | n/a |
| Bison Plains Lodge | $2,068 | 1 | n/a |
| Bre Everbright M6 LLC | $2,003 | 1 | n/a |
| Quality Inn (Formerly Comfort Inn-East) | $1,984 | 1 | n/a |
| Grand Inn Fargo | $1,809 | 1 | n/a |
| Rodeway Inn | $1,638 | 1 | n/a |
| Scandia Hotel | $1,543 | 1 | n/a |
| Grand Inn Moorhead | $1,459 | 1 | n/a |
| Howard Johnson | $1,286 | 1 | n/a |
| Hawthorn Suites (Now Candlewood) | $637 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($31k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 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: Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Offutt Family Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · The Arts Partnership of the Red Rive · Fred M Hector Jr Charitable Trust · The Barry Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation
How this is measured
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About Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc
- How much does Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc give?
- Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc reported 3 itemized grants totaling $1,100,000, out of $1,193,942 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 63 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (51%), Arts & Culture (28%), Public Safety & Disaster (8%).
- Who are Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Moorhead Youth Hockey Association ($600k), Northern Prairie Performing Arts ($550k), City of Moorhead ($507k).
- Does Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation, Sanford Group Return.
- Where is Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc based?
- Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc is based in ND.
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