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Foundation of the Professional Convention Management Association

Fundraising and grant giving, focused on education and research that will benefit the business events industry.

$689k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of FOUNDATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION’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.

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $230,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $689,244 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $459,244 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$230,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION$230,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS (V): $10k → 10%Youth Advocate Programs Inc: $25k → 12%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $13k → 10%Hands On New Orleans Inc: $10k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
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OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
TN
DC
LA
AL
GA
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Grants abroad, by region — $76k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$36k · 47% · 47 people

Stated purpose: COMPLIMENTARY ENROLLMENT IN ONLINE PROGRAMS OR EVENTS

South America$20k · 26% · 26 people

Stated purpose: COMPLIMENTARY ENROLLMENT IN ONLINE PROGRAMS OR EVENTS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$16k · 21% · 21 people

Stated purpose: COMPLIMENTARY ENROLLMENT IN ONLINE PROGRAMS OR EVENTS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$5k · 6% · 6 people

Stated purpose: C

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 12% of Foundation of the Professional Convention Management Association’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Foundation of the Professional Convention Management Associationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 7 repeat orgs$798k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +279% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
37

Total granted

$2.2M
$798k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+279%
+31%

Still filing today

29%
54%

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

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalHousing & ShelterMembership BenefitOther

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

  • PC
    PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $917k · revenue +48%
  • PC
    PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $460k
  • PC
    Professional Convention Management Association
    2× · 2021–2022 · $392k

Funded once

  • MC
    MCKINSEY & COMPANY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $230k
  • DP
    DANIELA PLATTNER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $67k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $40k

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

04Your field

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.

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Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

2
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
3
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
4
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
5
Acec Research Institute

Acec research institute serve as the leading source of knowledge and thought leadership for creating a more sustainable, safe, secure, and technically advanced built environment. identify, fund, and provide industry wide research forecasts…

Unclassified
6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

9
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
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National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
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Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Advocate Programs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Exhibition Industry Research. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Elementary Literacy TutoringEducation Equity LeadershipFood Pantries & AssistanceDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Classical Music EnsemblesCommunity Health Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr22%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr15%7%20–35yr14%9%35–55yr22%78%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,316

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.

05the grantee network

23 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION — $917,066 · OtherPROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATIONPROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION — $460,000 · OtherPROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATIONProfessional Convention Management Association — $392,428 · OtherProfessional Convention Management AssociationMCKINSEY & COMPANY INC — $230,000 · OtherMCKINSEY & COMPANY INCKARRIKINS GROUP — $174,355 · OtherKARRIKINS GROUPKALIBRI LABS — $124,144 · Other+25 more — $454,047 · Other+25 moreYOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $12,500 · Human ServicesBEVERLY'S PGH — $10,000 · Human ServicesHANDS ON NEW ORLEANS — $10,000 · Human ServicesTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $19,250 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $10,902 · EducationCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $10,000 · EducationECPAT-USA INC — $22,500 · InternationalWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH — $15,000 · InternationalWO SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $22,400 · PhilanthropyTHE SEARCH FOUNDATION CO CORINNE Z DUDINE — $10,000 · PhilanthropyHealth Alliance for Austin Musicians — $25,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$2,752,040Human Services$57,500Education$40,152International$37,500Arts & Culture$35,000Philanthropy$32,400Membership Benefit$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION — $917,066 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetDESTINATIONS & TRAVEL FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetYOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWO SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHealth Alliance for Austin Musicians — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetECPAT-USA INC — $22,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $22,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $19,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $10,902 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING IN LIBERTY — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBEVERLY'S PGH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARIZONA CHAPTER PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHANDS ON NEW ORLEANS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEARCH FOUNDATION CO CORINNE Z DUDINE — $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC — $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Enterprise Holdings FoundationMO8.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation of the Professional Convention Management Association 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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