· Public charity
Stark County Convention & Visitors' Bureau
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $596,695 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $724,629 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $127,934 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $216k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| DRESSLER PUB GROUP | $20,000 |
| BLUECOATS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS | $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 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NFNATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM INC6× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +31%
- MMMASSILLON MUSEUM6× · 2019–2024 · $256k · revenue +38%
- CSCanton Symphony Orchestra Association6× · 2019–2024 · $216k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- DSDOWDLE STUDIOS LLCone grant, 2023 · $50k
- DCDOWNTOWN CANTON PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +14%
- SCSOS CONTRACT SERVICES LLCone grant, 2022 · $14k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Business activities, programs and information for the community
Museum
Chamber of commerce - to foster and improve the business community.
Support and advocate preservation and restoration of historically significant buildings, sites, and objects.
To enhance the quality of life in the community by stimulating community interest in art, fostering creation and inquiry throughout columbus, and leading a vibrant arts culture tied to our unique history.
The Massillon WestStark Chamber of Commerce exists to develop, enhance, and represent business, promote economic growth, and improve the quality of life for our community.
The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA), a not-for-profit, was founded in 1990 to serve as a manager, presenter and educator. CAA's mission is to present a broad range of high quality performing and visual arts programs, develop diverse…
To develop and promote arts in the greater toledo community
To promote Boardman by growing Visibility, Voice, and Value, through a network of Business Community, and Tourism partnerships.
The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce and the most unlike its peers is Stark County Italian American Festival Foundation Inc. 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 51 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 45 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 NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN STARK ↗
- Who funds Canton Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds MASSILLON MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Canton Symphony Orchestra Association ↗
- Who funds CANTON PALACE THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CANTON BALLET ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS GUILD OF CANTON INC ↗
- Who funds Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FIRST LADIES LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds STARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SING STARK INC ↗
- Who funds CANTON REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds CANTON FINE ARTS ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds Botanical Garden Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARK COUNTY ITALIAN AMERICAN FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN CANTON PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Stark County Convention & Visitors' Bureau ↗
- Who funds NORTH CANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
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: Stark Community Foundation · Arts in Stark · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Timken Foundation of Canton · Economic and Community Development Institute · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Stark County Convention & 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.