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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).

$68k
Granted FY2020
6
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2020 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $58,085, the rows itemized in this filing. The $68,085 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 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 · FY2020

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION$15,000
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR GREATER$13,500
PHILADANCO$10,000
INDEPENDENCE VISITORS CENTER CORP$7,500
ECONOMY LEAGUE$6,085
COLON CANCER COALITION INC$6,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COLON CANCER COALITION INC: $6k → 11%THE LINKS FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE: $10k → 22%UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND: $6k → 14%GREATER PHILADELPHIA HOTEL ASSOCIAT: $90k → 22%WELCOME AMERICA INC: $15k → 22%THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR GREATER: $25k → 22%ECONOMY LEAGUE: $6k → 22%THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR GREATER: $14k → 22%PHILADANCO: $10k → 22%PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $15k → 22%INDEPENDENCE VISITORS CENTER CORP: $8k → 22%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 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.

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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…

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2
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
3
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
4
Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital & Technologies

Greater philadelphia alliance for capital and technologies (pact)'s vision is to be a premier resource for emerging growth companies in the information technology, clean technology, and life sciences industries. pact connects emerging…

Membership Benefit
5
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
6
Philadelphia Hospitality Inc

Promote the greater philadelphia region as a premier destination for cultural & historical travel

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7
Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry

The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…

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8
Pidc Local Development Corporation

See schedule o.pidc-ldc administers, as a subrecipient of the city of philadelphia, various federally funded grant programs, including community development block grants, housing and urban development loans, and economic development…

Community Improvement
9
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
10
Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture
11
Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance

To improve the lives of people in the philadelphia region by supporting democratically organized businesses, promoting the principles of the international cooperative movement, and growing the cooperative economy.

Membership Benefit
12
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Welcome America Inc; the most unlike its peers is United Negro College Fund 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

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association: $90,000 · OtherGreater Philadelphia Hotel AssociationCHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR GREATER PHILADEPHIA: $38,500 · OtherCHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR GREATER PHILADEPHIATHE LINKS INC PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER: $10,000 · OtherTHE LINKS INC PHILADELPHIA CHAPTERPHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE CO: $10,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE COPENNSYLVANIA ECONOMY LEAGUE INC: $6,085 · OtherWELCOME AMERICA INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureWELCOME AMERICA INCPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTR…Philadelphia Dance Company: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePhiladelphia Dance Co…Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $7,500 · Community ImprovementUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $6,000 · EducationCOLON CANCER COALITION INC: $6,000 · Health
Other$154,585Arts & Culture$40,000Community Improvement$7,500Education$6,000Health$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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

The William Penn Foun…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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 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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