· Public charity
Lake County Visitors Bureau Inc
Promote tourism in lake county ohio.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $97,210 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $158,435 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $61,225 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE METRO PARKS | $15,360 |
| THE LAKELAND FOUNDATION | $10,048 |
| WICKLIFFE I & A CLUB | $9,779 |
| RABBIT RUN COMMUNITY ARTS ASSOCIATI | $9,779 |
| GRAND RIVER CELLARS | $7,587 |
| THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM | $6,985 |
| PAINESVILLE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT | $6,985 |
| WILLOUGHBY WESTERN LC CHAMBER OF | $6,985 |
| THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION | $6,287 |
| GCXC RACING AND TIMING | $6,287 |
| FAIRPORT MARDI GRAS | $5,588 |
| LAKE COUNTY CAPTAINS | $5,540 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Lake County Visitors Bureau Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
- COCITY OF MENTOR2× · 2022–2023 · $45k
- LMLAKE METROPARKS2× · 2023–2024 · $31k
- PCPAINESVILLE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPOR3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue -90%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $14k
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.
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Advancement and preservation of the fine arts through exhibitions, lectures, demonstrations and educational programs.
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To develop and implement a marketing plan to grow the region's tourism economy through promotion of the region and thereby increase visitor spending in the region.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rabbit Run Community Arts Associati and the most unlike its peers is The Fine Arts Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 32 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 PAINESVILLE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPOR ↗
- Who funds RABBIT RUN COMMUNITY ARTS ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds THE LAKELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE RAILROAD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE DART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RIVER KENNEL CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds WILLOUGHBY WESTERN LAKE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ↗
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: The Cleveland Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Lake County 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.