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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.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $42,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $57,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,500 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.
$12,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOURISM DIVERSITY MATTERS$20,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$12,000
AMERICA 250$10,000
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%TOURISM DIVERSITY MATTERS: $20k → 6%FC PA STADIUM LLC (SPECTRA): $10k → 10%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SPORTS: $45k → 22%MPI FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%AMERICA 250: $10k → 14%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 22%GREATER PHILA HOTEL ASSOC: $219k → 22%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIV HOSP: $20k → 22%FORTRESS ARTS ACADEMY: $15k → 22%PHILADELPHIA INDEPEND VISITORS CNTR: $20k → 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.

1
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 University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
3
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
4
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
5
Jefferson Health - Northeast

To provide exceptional patient care and customer service to members of the communities served by the hospitals, and to recognize a patient's right to considerate and respectful care, regardless of ability to pay. please refer to schedule o…

Health
6
Philadelphia Hospitality Inc

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

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7
Tourism Diversity Matters

Address the blind spots of ethnic disparities and provide decision-makers in the tourism and events industry access, resources, and tactics to develop more effective diversity & inclusion strategies that will engage and retain a diverse…

Community Improvement
8
Kennedy University Hospital Inc

To function as an academic medical center that provides the finest healthcare services with excellent outcomes to people living in our communities. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community benefit statement.

Health
9
Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadephia

The chamber of commerce for greater philadelphia (the chamber) brings area businesses and civic leaders together to promote growth and create opportunity in our region. our members represent eleven counties, three states, and roughly…

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10
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
11
Greater Pittsburgh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.

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12
Abington Memorial Hospital

The organization is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all by fostering healing, easing suffering, and promoting wellness in a culture of safety, learning and respect. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association; the most unlike its peers is Tourism Diversity Matters Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association: $218,672 · OtherGreater Philadelphia Hotel AssociationMPI FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherFC PA STADIUM LLC (SPECTRA): $10,000 · OtherTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $82,672 · EducationTemple University - …OPERATION GRATITUDE INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitOPERATION GRAT…AMERICA250ORG INC: $10,000 · Public BenefitAMERICA250ORG …Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $20,000 · Community ImprovementFORTRESS ARTS: $15,000 · Community ImprovementTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $20,000 · HealthTOURISM DIVERSITY MATTERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Employment
Other$238,672Education$82,672Public Benefit$60,000Community Improvement$35,000Health$20,000Employment$20,000

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: $218,672 over 1y, 85% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $82,672 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION GRATITUDE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICA250ORG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2023
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no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%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
    1report 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 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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