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High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau Foundation

1.

$190k
Granted FY2021
11
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$151kRecreation & Sports$35kHuman Services$25kCommunity Improvement$25kPhilanthropy$10kYouth Development$8kInternational$8k
02FY2021 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $185,480, the rows itemized in this filing. The $190,480 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k4 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $151k
$18,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$444k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGH POINT-THOMASVILLE HITOMS$25,000
HIGH POINT X DESIGN (HPXD)$25,000
THE AMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS$25,000
FRIENDS OF JOHN COLTRANE$20,000
HIGH POINT DISCOVERED$20,000
CITY OF HIGH POINT MUSEUM$18,250
YALIK'S AFRICAN AMERICAN ART$17,400
BIENENSTOCK FURNITURE LIBRARY$9,950
HIGH POINT DOWNTOWN STADIUM$9,880
THE MIND GROUP INC$7,500
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF$7,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE AMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS: $25k → 16%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 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.

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High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau Foundation

1. to enhance educational, artistic, scientific, and historical activities as it relates to tourism in high point, north carolina, including but not limited to furniture, textiles and design.2. to explore growth opportunities in high…

Community Improvement
2
High Point International Home Furnishing Market Authority

The mission of the High Point International Furnishings Market Authority is to insure that the High Point Market is a productive and satisifying experience for all who attend and to work to secure the long-term viability of Market.

Community Improvement
3
Society of American Period Furniture Makers

The mission of sapfm is to pursue the following goals: to create a forum for the understanding, education, and appreciation of american period furniture. to develop and encourage the use of standards and ethical practices in the…

Education
4
Inclusive Fashion & Design Foundation

To increase the impact of beautiful, functional products in our everyday lives and in the global economy.

Civil Rights
5
American Home Furnishings Alliance Inc

The American Home Furnishings Alliance is committed to promoting the growth, citizenship and global leadership of home furnishings manufacturers, importers and suppliers in the United States.

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6
This is Home Fest Inc
Arts & Culture
7
Friends of the Royal Textile Academy of Bhutan
Philanthropy
8
Institute of Classical Architecture and Art North Carolina Chapter

The ICAA advances the appreciation of the priciples of traditional architecture and it's allied arts by engaging educators, students and enthusiats in NC.

—
9
The Furniture Society

Educate public about the craft of furniture making

Arts & Culture
10
The International Museum of Dinnerware Design Inc

The dinnerware museum is an art museum dedicated to collecting dinnerware and fine art referencing dinnerware, conserving and preserving this work, offering exhibitions to the general public on a regular basis, and offering educational,…

Arts & Culture
11
The North Caroliniana Society

To promote interest in, knowledge of, and appreciation for north carolina history and culture through historical preservation, library service, and perpetuation of state literary and cultural heritage.

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12
North Carolina Sports Legacy Foundation Fka Promote the Youth Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hpxd Inc; the most unlike its peers is Furniture Library Association. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF JOHN COLTRANE INC: $95,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF JOHN COLTRANE INCYALIKS AFRICAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURAL MOVEMENT: $17,400 · Arts & CultureYALIKS AFRICAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURAL MOVEMENTHIGH POINT-THOMASVILLE HITOMS: $25,000 · OtherHIGH POINT-THOMASVILLE HI…CITY OF HIGH POINT: $18,250 · OtherCITY OF HIGH POINTINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS: $7,500 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF …MIND GROUP HIGH POINT CITY BALL HAWGS: $7,500 · OtherMIND GROUP HIGH POINT CIT…HPXD INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementHPXD INCHIGH POINT DISCOVERED INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementHIGH POINT DISCOVER…AMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN H…FURNITURE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $9,950 · PhilanthropyHIGH POINT DOWNTOWN STADIUM FOUNDATION: $9,880 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$112,400Other$58,250Community Improvement$45,000Human Services$25,000Philanthropy$19,830

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF JOHN COLTRANE INC: $95,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetAMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHIGH POINT DISCOVERED INC: $20,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetFURNITURE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $9,950 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHIGH POINT DOWNTOWN STADIUM FOUNDATION: $9,880 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS: $7,500 over 1y, 7.2% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $64k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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