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Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau Foundation

Mission/purpose: the PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION ("foundation") was established in 2002 to conduct public, charitable, and educational activities and to attract additional support for those activities from foundations and the general public. The foundation has a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status because its…

$58k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$42k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$12,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23’24
Community ImprovementPublic BenefitHealthOther
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 arriving3$42k67%
FY20242$17k50%
FY20234$90k75%
FY20204$263k75%
FY20191$45kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Employment$219kCommunity Improvement$55kRecreation & Sports$55kHuman Services$50kEducation$38kHealth$20kScience & Tech$10kPublic Benefit$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

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About Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau Foundation

How much does Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau Foundation give?
Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $42,000, out of $57,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (48%), Community Improvement (12%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
Who are Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association ($219k), Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ($83k), Operation Gratitude Inc ($50k).
Does Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau Foundation based?
Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau Foundation 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 10 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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