· Public charity
Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc
The osceola convention & visitors bureau, inc., d/b/a experience kissimmee, is a full service tourism sales, marketing, publicity, and promotional organization responsible for creating economic opportunity for osceola county by driving visitation to the destination.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $429,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,854,506 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,425,006 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $362k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| City of Kissimmee | $60,000 |
| Hearts of Reality | $42,000 |
| City of St Cloud | $40,000 |
| Give Kids The World Inc | $40,000 |
| Celebration Community Services | $25,000 |
| KissimmeeOsceola C of C | $25,000 |
| CECF Wish Foundation | $25,000 |
| Celebration Community Services | $25,000 |
| Carribean & Floridian Association Inc | $25,000 |
| Osceola County Historical Society | $20,000 |
| Silver Spurs Club | $20,000 |
| Rotary Club of St Cloud Inc | $15,000 |
| Town Of Celebration | $15,000 |
| St Cloud Chamber of Commerce | $15,000 |
| Museum of Military History | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
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 +72% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- OAOsceola Arts Inc2× · 2019–2022 · $508k · revenue +50% · 45% of their budget
- KVKISSIMMEE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW AND FAIR2× · 2021–2022 · $158k · revenue +72%
- KOKISSIMMEE OSCEOLA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC4× · 2019–2024 · $135k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- HSHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCone grant, 2022 · $330k · revenue -7% · 46% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $190k
- SOSpecial Olympics USA Games 2022 Organizing Committee Incone grant, 2021 · $166k · revenue +30%
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.
Organize County Fair
The central florida sports commission is a non-profit, private organization created to attract international, national and regional events and sports-related business and activities to the central florida area.
established to educate the public on and preserve the history and heritage of the city of Lake Buena Vista, Florida and neighboring city of Bay Lake, Florida. Purchase and archive historical artifacts for display and archival both physical…
To attract readers, historians and tourists who appreciate the distinctive heritage offered by florida authors and history.
Maintain Operate Museum
The central florida fair is an organization that provides numerous community activities. the organization's mission and most significant accomplishments are education in the areas of agriculture, science and industry, the arts and…
The osceola convention & visitors bureau, inc., d/b/a experience kissimmee, is a full service tourism sales, marketing, publicity, and promotional organization responsible for creating economic opportunity for osceola county by driving…
To promote the education of and cultural appreciation of Japanese art, music, and other traditions in the greater Orlando community through conducting Japanese festivals and other cultural events.
To plan and organize the Clewiston Sugar Festival in Clewiston FL.
Okeechobee main street is organized for the purpose of promoting the historical value, economic development, and social welfare of the downtown area of the city of okeechobee and okeechobee county as a whole.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kissimmee Main Street Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Celebration Community Services 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 28 years old; the field is 8. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 36% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 31 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 Osceola Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics USA Games 2022 Organizing Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds KISSIMMEE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW AND FAIR ↗
- Who funds KISSIMMEE OSCEOLA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATION COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER SPURS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds CARIBBEAN AND FLORIDIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OSCEOLA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF ST CLOUD INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER OSCEOLA COUNTY ST CLOUD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CECF WISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KISSIMMEE MAIN STREET PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds TOWN OF CELEBRATION MARATHON & HALF MARATHON ↗
- Who funds ST CLOUD MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO CULTURAL PUERTORRIQUENO INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS TRIBUTE AND MUSEUM OF OSCOELA COUNTY 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Osceola Convention and 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kissimmee Valley Livestock Show and Fair — 16% of income from government
- Florida Cattlemen's Association Inc — 0% of income from government
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.