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Lake County Visitors Bureau Inc

Promote tourism in lake county ohio.

$158k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$180kRecreation & Sports$61kPublic Benefit$51kEnvironment$37kCommunity Improvement$35kAnimals$28kEducation$23kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $97,210, the rows itemized in this filing. The $158,435 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $61,225 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$6,985
Median grant
1
States reached
$937k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAKE METRO PARKS$15,360
THE LAKELAND FOUNDATION$10,048
RABBIT RUN COMMUNITY ARTS ASSOCIATI$9,779
WICKLIFFE I & A CLUB$9,779
GRAND RIVER CELLARS$7,587
WILLOUGHBY WESTERN LC CHAMBER OF$6,985
THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM$6,985
PAINESVILLE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT$6,985
THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION$6,287
GCXC RACING AND TIMING$6,287
FAIRPORT MARDI GRAS$5,588
LAKE COUNTY CAPTAINS$5,540
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FAIRPORT HARBOR: $25k → 9%CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY: $6k → 13%LAKE METRO PARKS: $15k → 9%LAKE METRO PARKS: $15k → 9%PAINESVILLE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT: $11k → 9%STEELE MANSION LLC: $10k → 9%THE LAKELAND FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%PAINESVILLE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT: $10k → 9%LAKE COUNTY FAIR: $9k → 9%WESTERN RESERVE RAILROAD ASSOCIATIO: $8k → 9%FAIRPORT MARDI GRAS: $8k → 9%THE LAKELAND FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%FAIRPORT MARDI GRAS: $8k → 9%WESTERN RESERVE RAILROAD ASSN: $7k → 9%HOLIDAY INN MADISON: $15k → 9%PAINESVILLE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT: $7k → 9%HAMPTON INN: $14k → 9%LAKE COUNTY FAIR: $7k → 9%RABBIT RUN COMMUNITY ARTS ASSOCIATI: $13k → 9%THE CITY OF PAINESVILLE: $7k → 9%GRAND RIVER CELLARS: $12k → 9%LAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $6k → 9%RABBIT RUN COMMUNITY ARTS ASSOCIATI: $10k → 9%FAIRPORT MARDI GRAS: $6k → 9%GRAND RIVER CELLARS: $8k → 9%CITY OF PAINESVILLE: $5k → 9%WILLOUGHBY WESTERN LC CHAMBER OF: $10k → 9%HAUTE OHIO MAGAZINE: $9k → 9%LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $9k → 9%WILLOUGHBY WESTERN LC CHAMBER OF: $7k → 9%THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $7k → 9%WILLOUGHBY WESTERN LC CHAMBER OF: $7k → 9%THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $6k → 9%CITY OF MENTOR: $38k → 9%GCXC RACING AND TIMING: $11k → 9%GCXC RACING AND TIMING: $10k → 9%LAKE ERIE DART ASSOCIATION: $9k → 9%GRAND RIVER KENNEL CLUB: $8k → 9%LAKE ERIE DART ASSOCIATION: $7k → 9%CITY OF MENTOR: $7k → 9%GCXC RACING AND TIMING: $6k → 9%LAKE COUNTY CAPTAINS: $6k → 9%WICKLIFFE I & A CLUB: $13k → 9%WICKLIFFE I & A CLUB: $13k → 9%WICKLIFFE I & A CLUB: $10k → 9%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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 10% of Lake County Visitors Bureau Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 90%.

Lake County Visitors Bureau Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$300k · 13 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$300k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-28%
+24%

Still filing today

31%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsAnimalsEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • CO
    CITY OF MENTOR
    2× · 2022–2023 · $45k
  • LM
    LAKE METROPARKS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $31k
  • PC
    PAINESVILLE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPOR
    3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue -90%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $14k
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
Lake City Creative Alliance

The mission of the organization is to foster a culturally-rich environment in the region and to serve as a leader in the cultivation and enhancement of the region's creative economy by creating, sponsoring, or promoting programs that…

Arts & Culture
2
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.

Education
3
Laguna College of Art & Design

Laguna college of art & design prepares individuals for careers as creative artists and designers in a culturally and ethnically diverse world through a curriculum that emphasizes acquiring skills based on observation, representation, and…

Education
4
Finger Lakes Association Inc dba Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance

Lead toursim economic growth and development through exemplary promotion of the finger lakes region as a world class destination.

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5
Portage Development Board

To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.

Public Benefit
6
Lake County Economic Development Corporation
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7
Lake Region Arts Council

To encourage and support the vitality of the arts in west central minnesota

Arts & Culture
8
Rockport Art Association

Advancement and preservation of the fine arts through exhibitions, lectures, demonstrations and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
9
Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council

LARAC's mission is to enrich the quality of life in Warren, Washington, and Norhtern Saratoga Counties. LARAC promotes, develops, coordinates and provides arts activities and services.

Arts & Culture
10
Lake Erie Shores and Islands

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.

Community Improvement
11
Lake County in Economic Alliance Inc

Lcea is organized for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding of economics; matters of public concern; finance; education and training; science and technology; economic planning and development; and other subjects…

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12
Perry County Council of the Arts

Pcca's mission is to build community through the arts, and its vision is to re-imagine creativity in a rural setting. within this context, pcca nurtures the creative spirit in adults and children, supports artists and celebrates their…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rabbit Run Community Arts Associati; 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.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF MENTOR: $44,560 · OtherCITY OF MENTORLAKE METROPARKS: $30,720 · OtherLAKE METROPARKSPAINESVILLE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPOR: $27,825 · OtherPAINESVILLE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORWICKLIFFE I & A CLUB: $26,120 · OtherWICKLIFFE I & A CLUBIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOLDEN FORESTS & GARDEN: $24,120 · OtherHOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENFAIRPORT MARDI GRAS: $21,288 · OtherFAIRPORT MARDI GRASGCXC RACING AND TIMING: $20,840 · OtherTHE LAKELAND FOUNDATION: $18,048 · OtherWILLOUGHBY WESTERN LC CHAMBER OF: $16,560 · OtherLAKE COUNTY FAIR: $15,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,000 · Other+12 more: $93,715 · Other+12 moreRABBIT RUN COMMUNITY ARTS ASSOCIATI: $22,779 · Arts & CultureRABBIT RUN…WESTERN RESERVE RAILROAD ASSOCIATION: $15,570 · Arts & CultureWESTERN RE…THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $6,287 · Arts & CultureTHE FINE A…LAKE ERIE DART ASSOCIATION INC: $15,560 · Recreation & SportsGRAND RIVER KENNEL CLUB: $7,560 · AnimalsTHE HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $6,985 · EnvironmentLAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $6,250 · Education
Other$393,396Arts & Culture$44,636Recreation & Sports$15,560Animals$7,560Environment$6,985Education$6,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRABBIT RUN COMMUNITY ARTS ASSOCIATI: $22,779 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE LAKELAND FOUNDATION: $18,048 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE RAILROAD ASSOCIATION: $15,570 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetLAKE ERIE DART ASSOCIATION INC: $15,560 over 2y, 20% of budgetGRAND RIVER KENNEL CLUB: $7,560 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $6,985 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLOUGHBY WESTERN LAKE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $6,985 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $6,287 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Lake County Visitors Bureau Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lake County Visitors Bureau Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    3report 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, 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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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