· Public charity
Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc
We strengthen the fox cities by investing in and promoting our destination.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of FOX CITIES CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $322k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TROUT MUSEUM OF ART | $250,000 |
| TIMBER RATTLERS GIVE BACK INC | $210,000 |
| OUTAGAMIE COUNTY | $59,375 |
| SCULPTURE VALLEY | $52,500 |
| APPLETON COMMUNITY MUSIC | $40,000 |
| FUTURE NEENAH INC | $25,000 |
| FOX CITIES SPORTS DEVELOPMENT CENTE | $15,999 |
| CITY OF NEENAH | $9,500 |
| FOX CITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $7,000 |
| NEENAH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $324k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TMTROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC3× · 2022–2025 · $280k · revenue +233%
- OCOUTAGAMIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY4× · 2018–2024 · $275k · revenue +35%
- TBTHE BUILDING FOR KIDS INC4× · 2017–2024 · $222k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- COCITY OF KAUKAUNAone grant, 2021 · $250k
- AIAPPLETON ICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +105%
- FCFOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +84%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area
To gather, engage, and educate people to celebrate and preserve the history, arts, sciences, and rich diversity of our region.
Stimulate development of the local economy, provide support to existing and prospective employers, serve as a professional resource to local units of government and promote tourism opportunities within oconto county wisconsin.
The phipps center for the arts, propelled by our community-based arts council, serves as a welcoming and open home for the st. croix river valley region and beyond, empowering and cultivating lifelong artistic expression, participation and…
The organization's mission is to inspire appreciation and celebrate the cultures and ecology of the vast finger lakes region.
Artpark & company fosters a transformative world of artistic engagement that explores the human experience, cultivates creativity, and encourages curiosity. our work is informed by a long tradition of discovery, an expectation of artistic…
To advance tourism, assist in new and existing business development and promote economic, professional, cultural and civic interests in the iowa great lakes area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative Downtown Appleton Inc and the most unlike its peers is Atlas Science Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 33 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds OUTAGAMIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BUILDING FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds TIMBER RATTLERS GIVE BACK INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE NEENAH INC ↗
- Who funds GORDON BUBOLZ NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds APPLETON ICE INC ↗
- Who funds HECKRODT WETLAND RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ATLAS SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KIMBERLY BASEBALL ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Appleton Community Music Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE DOWNTOWN APPLETON INC ↗
- Who funds FOX CITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY INC ↗
- Who funds APPLETON DOWNTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOX CITIES SPORTS DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NEENAH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BERGSTROM-MAHLER MUSEUM INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · The Boldt Family Fund Inc · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Doug & Carla Salmon Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Capital Credit Union · United Way Fox Cities Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Mielke Family Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc
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 Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc 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.
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.