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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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $471,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,938,168 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,466,668 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $402k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF KISSIMMEE$70,000
CITY OF ST CLOUD$46,000
GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC$45,000
KISSIMMEEOSCEOLA C OF C$45,000
CELEBRATION FOUNDATION$35,000
HEARTS OF REALITY INC$32,000
SILVER SPURS CLUB$30,000
MUSEUM OF MILITARY HISTORY$30,000
CARIBBEAN & FLORIDIAN ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
OSCEOLA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$20,000
ROTARY CLUB OF ST CLOUD INC$16,000
TOWN OF CELEBRATION$15,000
ST CLOUD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$15,000
CELEBRATION COMMUNITY SERVICES$15,000
CENTRAL FL ANIMAL RESERVE$12,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $100k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CARIBBEAN & FLORIDIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 13%Carribean & Floridian Association Inc: $25k → 13%CARIBBEAN & FLORIDIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 13%CARRIBEAN & FLORIDIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $20k → 13%CARIBBEAN & FLORIDIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 13%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 20 repeat orgs$859k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against -25% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
11

Total granted

$2.4M
$805k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
-25%

Still filing today

75%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • OA
    Osceola Arts Inc
    2× · 2019–2022 · $508k · revenue +50% · 45% of their budget
  • KO
    KISSIMMEE OSCEOLA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $180k · revenue +11%
  • KV
    KISSIMMEE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW AND FAIR
    2× · 2021–2022 · $158k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • HS
    HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $330k · revenue -31% · 46% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $190k
  • SO
    Special Olympics USA Games 2022 Organizing Committee Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $166k · revenue +30%
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
Osceola Historical Society
Arts & Culture
2
Osceola County Livestock Show

Organize County Fair

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3
Central Florida Sports Commission Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
4
Lake Buena Vista Historical Society Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Osceola County Historical Society
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6
The Florida Heritage Book Festival

To attract readers, historians and tourists who appreciate the distinctive heritage offered by florida authors and history.

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7
Japan Association of Orlando Inc

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.

Education
8
Central Florida Fair Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
9
McCallum Museum Inc

Maintain Operate Museum

Arts & Culture
10
Clewiston Sugar Festival Inc

To plan and organize the Clewiston Sugar Festival in Clewiston FL.

Arts & Culture
11
Jewish Heritage Festival Inc

To produce a bi-annual cultural festival which is free and open to the public. 2025 is an off year, the next festival will be held in 2026.

Philanthropy
12
Temple Terrace Community Arts Festival Inc

Bringing art and Culture to the community and beyond.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kissimmee Main Street Program Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 34 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City of Kissimmee: $238,940 · OtherCity of KissimmeeIndividual grant recipient: $190,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKISSIMMEE OSCEOLA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $179,634 · OtherKISSIMMEE OSCEOLA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCCity of St Cloud: $155,000 · OtherCity of St CloudGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: $135,350 · OtherGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INCSILVER SPURS CLUB INC: $135,000 · OtherSILVER SPURS CLUB INCHearts of Reality: $103,925 · OtherHearts of RealityOSCEOLA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $85,000 · OtherOSCEOLA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYGREATER OSCEOLA COUNTY ST CLOUD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $68,692 · OtherTOWN OF CELEBRATION MARATHON & HALF MARATHON: $55,000 · Other+9 more: $164,250 · Other+9 moreOsceola Arts Inc: $507,999 · Arts & CultureOsceola Arts IncHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $330,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CENTRAL …+2 more: $35,100 · Arts & CultureCELEBRATION COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $122,000 · Community ImprovementCELEBRATION …CELEBRATION FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · Community ImprovementCELEBRATION …ROTARY CLUB OF ST CLOUD INC: $83,000 · Community ImprovementROTARY CLUB …ST CLOUD MAIN STREET INC: $33,500 · Community ImprovementST CLOUD MAI…HEARTS OF REALITY INC: $32,000 · Community ImprovementHEARTS OF RE…KISSIMMEE VALLEY LIVESTOCK SHOW AND FAIR: $158,333 · AnimalsCentral Florida Animal Reserve Inc: $12,500 · AnimalsSpecial Olympics USA Games 2022 Organizing Committee Inc: $166,167 · Recreation & SportsCARIBBEAN AND FLORIDIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $100,250 · Human ServicesCECF WISH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyKISSIMMEE MAIN STREET PROGRAM INC: $40,007 · Public Benefit
Other$1,510,791Arts & Culture$873,099Community Improvement$355,500Animals$170,833Recreation & Sports$166,167Human Services$100,250Philanthropy$50,000Public Benefit$40,007

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 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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Kissimmee Valley Livestock Show and Fair: 16% of income from government
  • Florida Cattlemen's Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
7report 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 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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