· Public charity
Paso Robles Destination Dba Travel Paso
To improve business growth opportunities for the tourism industry in paso robles through administration and operation of a tourism improvement district for destination marketing, sales, & media programs.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of PASO ROBLES DESTINATION DBA TRAVEL PASO’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $293,867 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $323,324 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,457 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $179k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN JOSE SHARKS LLC | $55,000 |
| REC FOUNDATION | $38,250 |
| PASO ROBLES WINE COUNTRY ALLIANCE | $28,142 |
| LIVESTAR ENTERTAINMENT | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA MIDSTATE FAIR | $20,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY | $20,000 |
| VISIT SLOCAL | $15,600 |
| OC RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION INC | $12,500 |
| PACIFIC COAST CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| PASO ROBLES HORSE PARK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DISTILLERS OF SLO COUNTY | $8,125 |
| FARMSTEAD ED | $7,500 |
| SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| KCBS-TV | $7,500 |
| GARAGISTE EVENTS INC | $6,875 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 69% of your 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 +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- PRPASO ROBLES WINE COUNTRY ALLIANCE8× · 2018–2025 · $218k · revenue +62%
- GEGARAGISTE EVENTS INC5× · 2018–2025 · $53k · revenue +20%
- PRPASO ROBLES HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue ×13
Funded once
- CIConcorso Italiano Foundationone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue 0%
- PSPARKER SANPEI & ASSOCIATESone grant, 2024 · $11k
- VRVINA ROBLES ENTERTAINMENT LLCone grant, 2024 · $8k
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.
Expose the public to information about orchids
Advancement of community interest, business conditions and the reputation of the Santa Cruz Mountain Wine Industry through festivals and other activities
Provide an opportunity to the local community to participate in and preserve the art of polo. There are approximately 50 participant/members and many spectators.
The mission of the santa barbara south coast chamber of commerce is to create a strong local economy, promote the community, provide business resources and networking opportunities and represent business to the government.
Bike slo county inspires, educates, advocates, and works to build a safe, healthy and connected community through bicycling.
To promote stamp collecting
Promote interest and trade and beautify the downtown business environment.
Promotion of commerce in panola county texas
The mission of the Philomath Frolic Rodeo is to be a family-oriented entertainment organization focused on the traditions on which the community was founded, namely our Western heritage and the logging industry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Coast Cutting Horse Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 34 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 PASO ROBLES WINE COUNTRY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Recreation Enhances Community Foundation REC Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA MID-STATE FAIR HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARAGISTE EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds PASO ROBLES HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DISTILLERS OF SLO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PADEREWSKI FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds ESTRELLA WARBIRDS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY VISITORS AND CONFERENCE BUREAU ↗
- Who funds Concorso Italiano Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC COAST CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGISTICS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STUDIOS ON THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE DU RHONE ↗
- Who funds THE RHONE RANGERS ↗
- Who funds PASO ROBLES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds PASO ROBLES MAIN STREET 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Paso Robles Destination Dba Travel Paso 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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