Skip to content
Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc at a glance

· Public charity

Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

We strengthen the fox cities by investing in and promoting our destination.

$675k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
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 2025.

Community Improvement$2.0MRecreation & Sports$1.2MArts & Culture$1.1MEnvironment$478kHuman Services$210kEducation$158kPublic Benefit$141kScience & Tech$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $81k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $322k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TIMBER RATTLERS GIVE BACK INC: $210k → 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 14 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$4.3M
$756k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+1%

Still filing today

57%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $324k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TM
    TROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $280k · revenue +233%
  • OC
    OUTAGAMIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2018–2024 · $275k · revenue +67%
  • TB
    THE BUILDING FOR KIDS INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $222k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF KAUKAUNA
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • AI
    APPLETON ICE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +105%
  • FC
    FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +84%
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

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.

1
Oshkosh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.

—
2
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Heckscher Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Inc

Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.

Arts & Culture
5
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum Inc

The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.

—
6
Winona Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area

—
7
Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center

To gather, engage, and educate people to celebrate and preserve the history, arts, sciences, and rich diversity of our region.

Arts & Culture
8
Oconto County Economic Development Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
9
Phipps Center for the Arts Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Finger Lakes Cultural & Natural History Museum

The organization's mission is to inspire appreciation and celebrate the cultures and ecology of the vast finger lakes region.

Arts & Culture
11
Artpark & Company Inc

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…

—
12
Iowa Great Lakes Chamber of Commerce

To advance tourism, assist in new and existing business development and promote economic, professional, cultural and civic interests in the iowa great lakes area.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative Downtown Appleton Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRAND CHUTE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $2,033,596 · OtherGRAND CHUTE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTCITY OF MENASHA: $300,000 · OtherCITY OF MENASHACITY OF KAUKAUNA: $250,000 · OtherCITY OF KAUKAUNAOUTAGAMIE COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - ADRC: $221,935 · OtherOUTAGAMIE COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - ADRCGORDON BUBOLZ NATURE PRESERVE INC: $160,000 · OtherCITY OF NEENAH: $154,288 · OtherYOUTH SPORTS INC: $150,486 · Other+11 more: $218,027 · Other+11 moreTROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $280,000 · Arts & CultureTROUT MUSEUM OF ART I…OUTAGAMIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $275,000 · Arts & CultureOUTAGAMIE COUNTY HIST…THE BUILDING FOR KIDS INC: $222,277 · Arts & CultureTHE BUILDING FOR KIDS…FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFOX CITIES PERFORMING…ATLAS SCIENCE CENTER INC: $51,109 · Arts & CultureAppleton Community Music Inc: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE DOWNTOWN APPLETON INC: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,600 · Arts & CultureFUTURE NEENAH INC: $178,100 · EnvironmentHECKRODT WETLAND RESERVE INC: $140,000 · EnvironmentAPPLETON ICE INC: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsKIMBERLY BASEBALL ORGANIZATION: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsFOX CITIES SPORTS DEVELOPMENT INC: $15,999 · Recreation & SportsTIMBER RATTLERS GIVE BACK INC: $210,000 · Human ServicesLAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $150,000 · Education
Other$3,488,332Arts & Culture$1,013,986Environment$318,100Recreation & Sports$215,999Human Services$210,000Education$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $280,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetOUTAGAMIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $275,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetTHE BUILDING FOR KIDS INC: $222,277 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetTIMBER RATTLERS GIVE BACK INC: $210,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetFUTURE NEENAH INC: $178,100 over 3y, 23% of budgetGORDON BUBOLZ NATURE PRESERVE INC: $160,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetYOUTH SPORTS INC: $150,486 over 3y, 14% of budgetLAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAPPLETON ICE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHECKRODT WETLAND RESERVE INC: $140,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetFOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetATLAS SCIENCE CENTER INC: $51,109 over 1y, 18% of budgetKIMBERLY BASEBALL ORGANIZATION: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetAppleton Community Music Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCREATIVE DOWNTOWN APPLETON INC: $40,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetFOX CITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY INC: $27,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetAPPLETON DOWNTOWN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetFOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFOX CITIES SPORTS DEVELOPMENT INC: $15,999 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNEENAH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBERGSTROM-MAHLER MUSEUM INC: $5,600 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Boldt Family Fund…Theda and Tamblin Cla…Doug & Carla Salmon F…US Ventureschmidt Fam…Capital Credit UnionUnited Way Fox Cities…J J Keller Foundation…Green Bay Packers Fou…Mielke Family Foundat…Oshkosh Area Communit…Greater Green Bay Com…
Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region IncWI53.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home