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Ross-Chillicothe Convention and Visitors Bureau

To promote travel and tourism

$10k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Community Improvement$295kArts & Culture$154kFood & Nutrition$42k
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$760k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAJESTIC THEATRE$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE SCIOTO SOCIETY: $60k → 14%OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 15%MAJESTIC THEATRE: $55k → 14%R KITCHEN ON PAINT: $54k → 14%HIGH FIVE CAKES & BAKERY: $35k → 14%RECORDING WORKSHOP: $34k → 14%ROSS CO AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $27k → 14%CHILLICOTHE PAINTS: $27k → 14%FIRE & STONE PIZZERIA: $20k → 14%THE MARKET AT SCHLEGEL'S: $18k → 14%OBJECTIVE REALITY GAMES: $18k → 14%POUR HOUSE AT MACHINERY HALL: $18k → 14%ROSS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17k → 14%HIRSCH FRUIT FARM: $15k → 14%CHILLICOTHE CIVIC THEATRE: $15k → 14%MIGHTY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $14k → 14%NELLIE DOG POTTERY & PAINTS: $14k → 14%MAJESTIC THEATRE: $10k → 14%SOUTHERN OHIO AXE THROWING: $8k → 14%PAXTON THEATRE: $19k → 14%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
Eclipse Theatre Company

To provide entertainment encourage the advancement of contemporary theatre arts and provide the opportunity for cultural and technical growth through experience in live theatre

Arts & Culture
2
Wasco Co Historical Museum
Arts & Culture
3
Keith County Historical Society

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…

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4
Wythe County Historical Society

To promote the preservation, collection and interpretation of wythe county history in its many forms.

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5
Jefferson County Historical Society

To preserve, maintain and restore historical artifacts and information for future generations.

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6
Columbus Historic Preservation Trust

Preservation, Display and use of Historic buildings

Unclassified
7
Darke County Historical Society

Operation of museum

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8
The Columbus Historical Society

Preserve the multi-cultural history of columbus and share that history with the community through a variety of educational programming

Arts & Culture
9
Rochester Historical Society

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.

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10
Mauch Chunk Historical Society

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)

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11
Crane River Theater Company Inc

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.

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12
Classical Theatre Company

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ross County Historical Society Inc; 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.
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 18 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

R KITCHEN ON PAINT: $53,630 · OtherR KITCHEN ON PAINTHIGH FIVE CAKES & BAKERY: $34,887 · OtherHIGH FIVE CAKES & BAKERYRECORDING WORKSHOP: $34,042 · OtherRECORDING WORKSHOPFIRE & STONE PIZZERIA: $19,743 · OtherFIRE & STONE PIZZERIATHE MARKET AT SCHLEGEL'S: $18,472 · OtherTHE MARKET AT SCHLEGEL'SOBJECTIVE REALITY GAMES LLC: $17,748 · OtherOBJECTIVE REALITY GAMES LLCPOUR HOUSE AT MACHINERY HALL: $17,619 · OtherPOUR HOUSE AT MACHINERY HALLHIRSCH FRUIT FARM: $15,149 · OtherHIRSCH FRUIT FARMChillicothe Civic Theatre Inc: $14,978 · OtherChillicothe Civic Theatre IncNELLIE DOG POTTERY & PAINTS: $13,873 · OtherNELLIE DOG POTTERY & PAINTS+1 more: $7,728 · OtherTHE SCIOTO SOCIETY INC: $60,238 · Arts & CultureTHE SCIOTO SOCIETY INCOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION: $41,363 · Arts & CultureOHIO HISTORY CONNECTIONPAXTON THEATRE FOUNDATION: $18,884 · Arts & CulturePAXTON THEATRE FOUNDATIONRoss County Historical Society Inc: $17,027 · Arts & CultureRoss County Historical Society IncMIGHTY CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $14,103 · Arts & CultureMIGHTY CHILDRENS MUSEUMMAJESTIC THEATRE INC: $65,086 · Recreation & SportsMAJESTIC THEATR…ROSS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $26,738 · Food & Nutrition
Other$247,869Arts & Culture$151,615Recreation & Sports$65,086Food & Nutrition$26,738

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAJESTIC THEATRE INC: $65,086 over 2y, 37% of budgetTHE SCIOTO SOCIETY INC: $60,238 over 1y, 23% of budgetOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION: $41,363 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $26,738 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetPAXTON THEATRE FOUNDATION: $18,884 over 1y, 34% of budgetRoss County Historical Society Inc: $17,027 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetChillicothe Civic Theatre Inc: $14,978 over 1y, 22% of budgetMIGHTY CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $14,103 over 1y, 11% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Chillicothe-Ross Community Foundation IncOH15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chillicothe-Ross Community Foundation Inc · Adena Health System · David Meade Massie Trust · Community Foundations 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 Ross-Chillicothe Convention and Visitors Bureau funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ross-Chillicothe Convention and Visitors Bureau. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 18 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 2021, released 2021. 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 FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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