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Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau

The PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU (phlcvb) is the official tourism promotion agency for the city of philadelphia globally, and the sales and marketing agency for the pennsylvania convention center (pcc). Phlcvb markets philadelphia as a top destination for meetings, conventions, sporting events and international leisure…

$68k
Granted FY2020
6
Itemized grants FY2020
6
Organizations funded FY2020
83%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$58k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 6
FY2019 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
2
Total assets, FY2020
$28M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 83% of the organizations Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20206$58k83%
FY20196$156kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2020.

Health$96kCommunity Improvement$46kArts & Culture$40kPublic Benefit$16kCivil Rights$10kEducation$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association$90,000122%
Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadephia$38,5002n/a
Welcome America Inc$15,00010%
Philadelphia Orchestra Association$15,00010%
The Links Inc Philadelphia Chapter$10,000113%
Philadelphia Tribune Co$10,0001n/a
Philadelphia Dance Company$10,00011%
Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation$7,50010%
Pennsylvania Economy League Inc$6,08510%
United Negro College Fund Inc$6,00010%
Colon Cancer Coalition Inc$6,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Philadelphia Hotel Association: $90,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetWelcome America Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPhiladelphia Orchestra Association: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Links Inc Philadelphia Chapter: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPhiladelphia Dance Company: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPennsylvania Economy League Inc: $6,085 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Negro College Fund Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColon Cancer Coalition Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 9.

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 William Penn FoundationPA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau

How much does Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau give?
Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau reported 6 itemized grants totaling $58,085, out of $68,085 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2020.
What does Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2020, its largest causes are Health (45%), Community Improvement (21%), Arts & Culture (19%).
Who are Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2020: Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association ($90k), Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadephia ($39k), Welcome America Inc ($15k).
Does Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau based?
Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau is based in PA.

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 11 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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