· Public charity
Ross-Chillicothe Convention and Visitors Bureau
To promote travel and tourism
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of ROSS-CHILLICOTHE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAJESTIC THEATRE | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide entertainment encourage the advancement of contemporary theatre arts and provide the opportunity for cultural and technical growth through experience in live theatre
The kchs was organized on january 29, 1962 with the following objectives; -to obtain a museum -to promote historical tours in the area -to restore, preserve and recreate historical buildings -mark historical sites -commemorate…
To promote the preservation, collection and interpretation of wythe county history in its many forms.
To preserve, maintain and restore historical artifacts and information for future generations.
Preservation, Display and use of Historic buildings
Operation of museum
Preserve the multi-cultural history of columbus and share that history with the community through a variety of educational programming
The purpose of the Rochester Historical Society is to seek out, collect, preserve and restore those materials, records, and artifacts which relate to the history of Rochester.
Cultural development and presentation of theatrical events in a historical theater. cultural events presented to promote tourism in the historic town of jim thorpe (formerly mauch chunk)
The mission of the theater company is to serve the community of kearney, nebraska and surrounding areas as a professional theater production company providing a home for the presentation, education and promotion of the arts.
Classical Theatre Company is dedicated to boldly re-envisioning classical drama on the stage, in the community, and in the classroom through engaging and enlightening plays that bring them new life and relevance while maintaining the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ross County Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mighty Childrens Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MAJESTIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCIOTO SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds ROSS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PAXTON THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ross County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Chillicothe Civic Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Chillicothe-Ross Community Foundation Inc · Adena Health System · David Meade Massie Trust · Community Foundations Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ross-Chillicothe Convention and Visitors Bureau funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.