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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
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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.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsAnimalsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving16$472k19%
FY202416$430k13%
FY202314$317k0%
FY20227$1.1M71%
FY20212$261k100%
FY202017$296k35%
FY201916$372kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Community Improvement$989kArts & Culture$954kRecreation & Sports$271kAnimals$158kHealth$90kHuman Services$75kFood & Nutrition$30kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Osceola Arts Inc$507,999245%
Historical Society of Central Florida Inc$330,000146%
City of Kissimmee$238,9405n/a
Kissimmee Osceola County Chamber of Commerce Inc$179,63455%
Special Olympics USA Games 2022 Organizing Committee Inc$166,16714%
Kissimmee Valley Livestock Show and Fair$158,33324%
City of St Cloud$155,0004n/a
Give Kids the World Inc$135,35050%
Silver Spurs Club Inc$135,00053%
Celebration Community Services Inc$122,000424%
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All grantees of Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Osceola Arts Inc$507,999245%
Historical Society of Central Florida Inc$330,000146%
City of Kissimmee$238,9405n/a
Kissimmee Osceola County Chamber of Commerce Inc$179,63455%
Special Olympics USA Games 2022 Organizing Committee Inc$166,16714%
Kissimmee Valley Livestock Show and Fair$158,33324%
City of St Cloud$155,0004n/a
Give Kids the World Inc$135,35050%
Silver Spurs Club Inc$135,00053%
Celebration Community Services Inc$122,000424%
Hearts of Reality$103,9253n/a
Caribbean and Floridian Association Inc$100,250563%
Celebration Foundation Inc$85,00036%
Osceola County Historical Society$85,00053%
Rotary Club of St Cloud Inc$83,000525%
Greater Osceola County St Cloud Chamber of Commerce Inc$68,69255%
Town of Celebration Marathon & Half Marathon$55,000415%
Cecf Wish Foundation Inc$50,00027%
Kissimmee Main Street Program Inc$40,007215%
Museum of Military History$40,0002n/a
St Cloud Main Street Inc$33,50034%
Hearts of Reality Inc$32,0001n/a
St Cloud Heritage Museum Inc$30,7503n/a
Florida Cattlemen's Association Inc$30,00012%
Centro Cultural Puertorriqueno Inc$25,0001n/a
Central Florida Animal Reserve Inc$12,5001n/a
Veterans Tribute and Museum of Oscoela County Inc$10,10014%
Florida Victory Outreach Center Inc$10,0001n/a
Escuela de Bomba y Plena Tata Cepeda$10,0001n/a
Safety First Pediaquatics Lifeguardians$7,5001n/a

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.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOsceola Arts Inc: $507,999 over 2y, 45% of budgetHistorical Society of Central Florida Inc: $330,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetKissimmee Osceola County Chamber of Commerce Inc: $179,634 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetSpecial Olympics USA Games 2022 Organizing Committee Inc: $166,167 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetKissimmee Valley Livestock Show and Fair: $158,333 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetGive Kids the World Inc: $135,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSilver Spurs Club Inc: $135,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCelebration Community Services Inc: $122,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetCaribbean and Floridian Association Inc: $100,250 over 5y, 63% of budgetCelebration Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetOsceola County Historical Society: $85,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetRotary Club of St Cloud Inc: $83,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetGreater Osceola County St Cloud Chamber of Commerce Inc: $68,692 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetTown of Celebration Marathon & Half Marathon: $55,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCecf Wish Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetKissimmee Main Street Program Inc: $40,007 over 2y, 15% of budgetSt Cloud Main Street Inc: $33,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetFlorida Cattlemen's Association Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetVeterans Tribute and Museum of Oscoela County Inc: $10,100 over 1y, 3.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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
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.

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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.

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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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