Florida · 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. In its role, experience kissimmee fulfills its contract with osceola…
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $472k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 17
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $40M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $472k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $430k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $317k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $1.1M | 71% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $261k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $296k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $372k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Osceola Arts Inc | $507,999 | 2 | 45% |
| Historical Society of Central Florida Inc | $330,000 | 1 | 46% |
| City of Kissimmee | $238,940 | 5 | n/a |
| Kissimmee Osceola County Chamber of Commerce Inc | $179,634 | 5 | 5% |
| Special Olympics USA Games 2022 Organizing Committee Inc | $166,167 | 1 | 4% |
| Kissimmee Valley Livestock Show and Fair | $158,333 | 2 | 4% |
| City of St Cloud | $155,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Give Kids the World Inc | $135,350 | 5 | 0% |
| Silver Spurs Club Inc | $135,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Celebration Community Services Inc | $122,000 | 4 | 24% |
Show all 30 grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($226k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc
- How much does Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc give?
- Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc reported 17 itemized grants totaling $471,500, out of $1,938,168 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (35%), Arts & Culture (34%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Osceola Arts Inc ($508k), Historical Society of Central Florida Inc ($330k), City of Kissimmee ($239k).
- Does Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc based?
- Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc is based in FL.
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