How much did Stark County Convention & Visitors' grant in FY2024?

Stark County Convention & Visitors' reported 18 grants totaling $724,629 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Stark County Convention & Visitors' based?

Stark County Convention & Visitors' is based in OH.

Stark County Convention & Visitors'

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· Public charity

Stark County Convention & Visitors'

The mission of the Stark County Convention & Visitors' Bureau is to attract and engage visitors, serve and educate regional tourisim partners, and generate economic growth for the community through travel and tourism development.

$725k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$166k

Largest

01What you fund

0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.5MEducation$60kEnvironment$18kPhilanthropy$16kOther$646k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

arts cultural

2020

arts cultural

2021

arts cultural

2022

arts cultural

2023

arts cultural

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $30k
$10k–50k10 grants · $216k
$50k–250k3 grants · $350k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

ARTS IN STARK$166,339
MASSILLON MUSEUM$131,782
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART$52,003
NATIONAL FIRST LADIES' LIBRARY$34,650
CANTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSO$34,300
NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM$30,000
CANTON BALLET$24,250
BLUECOATS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS$20,000
DRESSLER PUB GROUP$20,000
MCKINLEY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY & MUSEUM$14,383
EN-RICH-MENT$14,000
JACKSON TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES$13,000
HARTVILLE KITCHEN$11,912
QUEER IN CANTON$7,750
LYNN A SHIMKO dba THE 720 MARKET LLC$6,050

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 99% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.1M · 27 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.1M

$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+24%

Still filing today

63%

19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

PF
PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME MUSEUM
6× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +31%
AI
Arts in Stark
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
CM
CANTON MUSUEM OF ART
7× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +31%

Funded once

DS
DOWDLE STUDIOS LLC
one grant, 2023 · $50k
TL
THE LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION UMBRELLA ALLEYgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +501%
DC
DOWNTOWN CANTON PARTNERSHIP
one grant, 2023 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The Canton Classic Car Museum

Arts & Culture

Akron Art Museum

To enrich lives through modern and contemporary art.

Arts & Culture

Canfield Heritage Foundation

Museum

Arts & Culture

Cleveland Museum of Art

To provide a collection of artwork representing achievement of individuals and civilizations, past and present, for the benefit of the public.

Arts & Culture

North Canton Playhouse

The north canton playhouse is a charitable and educational institution, whose mission is to provide entertainment, enrichment, education and to encourage theatrical arts throughout the north canton community, stark county and the…

Arts & Culture

Great Lakes Center for the Arts

Educate and serve all in northern michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture

Ohio Glass Museum

Arts & Culture

Canton Regional Chamber of

Economic & community development - restore and maintain healthy economic and social conditions in the city of canton and stark county and to support infrastructure expansion vital to economic growth.

—

Canton Chamber of Commerce

Business activities, programs and information for the community

—

Canal Winchester Art Guild

Arts & Culture

Clinton Arts Center

—

Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts

With funding, services, and advocacy, ArtsWave fuels a more vibrant economy and connected community through the arts.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canton Palace Theatre Association and the most unlike its peers is Arts in Stark. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/45

the rest of the field

10%

206/1,989

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

14/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$3,510,720Other$646,222Education$59,900Environment$17,952Philanthropy$16,050

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.

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.

Stark Community FoundationOH34.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stark Community Foundation · Arts in Stark · Aultman Health Foundation · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Economic and Community Development · Timken Foundation of Canton · Fred F Silk Charitable Foundation · The Ward J and Joy A Timken Foundation · Ohio Humanities Council · Columbus Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 organisation Stark County Convention & Visitors' 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CANTON FINE ARTS ASSOCIATES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 37.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 341189795 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CANTON FINE ARTS ASSOCIATES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 76% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Stark County Convention & Visitors'?

Find your warmest path to Stark County Convention & Visitors' through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Stark County Convention & Visitors'

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Stark County Convention & Visitors'?

More from the funding graph

Stark County Convention & Visitors'

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Stark County Convention & Visitors'?

More from the funding graph