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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.

$323k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Itemized grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$294k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$55,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Paso Robles Destination Dba Travel Paso funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsEnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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 arriving17$236k18%
FY202416$241k38%
FY202311$179k45%
FY20229$151k33%
FY20214$85k75%
FY20203$90k67%
FY20196$110k0%
FY201810$132kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$965kCommunity Improvement$287kArts & Culture$74kReligion$38kPhilanthropy$20kEnvironment$16kHealth$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Earthquakes Soccer LLC$227,7254n/a
Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance$217,57783%
San Jose Sharks LLC$105,0002n/a
California Mid-State Fair$80,0002n/a
California Mid-State Fair Heritage Foundation Inc$80,00034%
Garagiste Events Inc$53,12556%
Paso Robles Horse Park Foundation Inc$47,50050%
Distillers of Slo County$38,125516%
Locomotiv Performance Coaching$37,5004n/a
Paderewski Festival$35,0002n/a
Show all 32 grantees
All grantees of Paso Robles Destination Dba Travel Paso by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Earthquakes Soccer LLC$227,7254n/a
Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance$217,57783%
San Jose Sharks LLC$105,0002n/a
California Mid-State Fair$80,0002n/a
California Mid-State Fair Heritage Foundation Inc$80,00034%
Garagiste Events Inc$53,12556%
Paso Robles Horse Park Foundation Inc$47,50050%
Distillers of Slo County$38,125516%
Locomotiv Performance Coaching$37,5004n/a
Paderewski Festival$35,0002n/a
Estrella Warbirds Museum Inc$26,00041%
Livestar Entertainment$25,0001n/a
World of Wine Events LLC$22,5002n/a
Farmstead Ed$21,3753n/a
San Luis Obispo County Visitors and Conference Bureau$20,60020%
Pacific Coast Cutting Horse Association$20,00020%
Concorso Italiano Foundation$20,00013%
Ecologistics Inc$16,00021%
San Francisco AIDS Foundation$15,00020%
Studios on the Park Inc$12,62522%
Hospice Du Rhone$12,50021%
Oc Restaurant Association Inc$12,5001n/a
Parker Sanpei & Associates$11,2501n/a
Castoro Cellars$10,8752n/a
The Rhone Rangers$10,50024%
Paso Robles Chamber of Commerce$7,5001n/a
Vina Robles Entertainment LLC$7,5001n/a
Kcbs-Tv$7,5001n/a
West Palms Event Management Inc$7,0831n/a
Wine Communications Group Inc$5,0001n/a
Canossa Events North America$5,0001n/a
Paso Robles Main Street Inc$5,00012%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paso Robles Destination Dba Travel Paso supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPaso Robles Wine Country Alliance: $217,577 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetCalifornia Mid-State Fair Heritage Foundation Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetGaragiste Events Inc: $53,125 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetPaso Robles Horse Park Foundation Inc: $47,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDistillers of Slo County: $38,125 over 5y, 16% of budgetEstrella Warbirds Museum Inc: $26,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSan Luis Obispo County Visitors and Conference Bureau: $20,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPacific Coast Cutting Horse Association: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetConcorso Italiano Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetEcologistics Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSan Francisco AIDS Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStudios on the Park Inc: $12,625 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHospice Du Rhone: $12,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Rhone Rangers: $10,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetPaso Robles Main Street Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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 15.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation San Luis ObispoCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Paso Robles Destination Dba Travel Paso

How much does Paso Robles Destination Dba Travel Paso give?
Paso Robles Destination Dba Travel Paso reported 19 itemized grants totaling $293,867, out of $323,324 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Paso Robles Destination Dba Travel Paso fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (68%), Community Improvement (20%), Arts & Culture (5%).
Who are Paso Robles Destination Dba Travel Paso's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Earthquakes Soccer LLC ($228k), Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance ($218k), San Jose Sharks LLC ($105k).
Does Paso Robles Destination Dba Travel Paso fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Paso Robles Destination Dba Travel Paso?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Paso Robles Destination Dba Travel Paso based?
Paso Robles Destination Dba Travel Paso is based in CA.

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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