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Switzerland County Tourism Inc

To contribute to the economic health of switzerland county by promoting, marketing, building & sustaining the vital tourism industry through the attraction of visitors to stay, shop, dine, tour & recreate in our historically rich & beautiful river community.

$185k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$902kCommunity Improvement$51kYouth Development$7k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$26,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$187k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC$75,000
SWITZERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC$30,000
HISTORIC VEVAY INC$26,000
SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC$24,000
COMMUNITY STUDIO GALLERY INC$20,000
MUSEE DE VENOGE INC$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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC: $83k → 14%SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC: $75k → 14%SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC: $75k → 14%SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC: $75k → 14%SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC: $70k → 14%SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC: $60k → 14%SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC: $51k → 14%SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC: $40k → 14%SWITZERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC: $30k → 14%SWITZERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC: $30k → 14%HISTORIC VEVAY INC: $26k → 14%HISTORIC VEVAY INC: $26k → 14%SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC: $26k → 14%SWITZERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC: $25k → 14%SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC: $25k → 14%SWITZERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC: $25k → 14%SWITZERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC: $25k → 14%SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC: $24k → 14%HISTORIC VEVAY INC: $23k → 14%HISTORIC VEVAY INC: $21k → 14%SWITZERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC: $20k → 14%SWITZERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC: $20k → 14%COMMUNITY STUDIO GALLERY INC: $20k → 14%SWITZERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC: $20k → 14%HISTORIC VEVAY INC: $15k → 14%HISTORIC VEVAY INC: $15k → 14%HISTORIC VEVAY INC: $15k → 14%VEVAY MAIN STREET: $14k → 14%COMMUNITY STUDIO GALLERY INC: $12k → 14%COMMUNITY STUDIO GALLERY INC: $12k → 14%COMMUNITY STUDIO GALLERY INC: $12k → 14%VEVAY MAIN STREET: $11k → 14%MUSEE DE VENOGE INC: $10k → 14%MUSEE DE VENOGE INC: $10k → 14%MUSEE DE VENOGE INC: $10k → 14%MUSEE DE VENOGE INC: $10k → 14%HISTORIC VEVAY INC: $10k → 14%MUSEE DE VENOGE INC: $9k → 14%MUSEE DE VENOGE INC: $8k → 14%VEVAY MAIN STREET: $8k → 14%SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC: $8k → 14%COMMUNITY STUDIO GALLERY INC: $8k → 14%SWITZERLAND COUNTY 4-H FAIRBOARD: $7k → 14%VEVAY MAIN STREET: $7k → 14%VEVAY MAIN STREET: $6k → 14%MUSEE DE VENOGE INC: $6k → 14%VEVAY MAIN STREET: $6k → 14%MUSEE DE VENOGE INC: $5k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 6 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$1.1M
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-15%
+357%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SW
    SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $610k · revenue -26% · 31% of their budget
  • SC
    Switzerland County Historical Society Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $195k · revenue -55% · 39% of their budget
  • HV
    HISTORIC VEVAY INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $151k · revenue +86% · 63% of their budget

Funded once

  • SC
    SWITZERLAND COUNTY 4-H FAIRBOARDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +357%
How this is measured

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

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 7 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
2/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC: $610,200 · OtherSWISS WINE FESTIVAL INCSwitzerland County Historical Society Inc: $195,030 · OtherSwitzerland County Historical Society IncHISTORIC VEVAY INC: $150,500 · OtherHISTORIC VEVAY INCMUSEE DE VENOGE INC: $68,000 · OtherMUSEE DE VENOGE INCVEVAY MAIN STREET: $51,200 · Other+1 more: $7,000 · OtherCommunity Studio Gallery Incorporated: $63,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,081,930Arts & Culture$63,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC: $610,200 over 8y, 31% of budgetSwitzerland County Historical Society Inc: $195,030 over 8y, 39% of budgetHISTORIC VEVAY INC: $150,500 over 8y, 63% of budgetCommunity Studio Gallery Incorporated: $63,500 over 5y, 50% of budgetSWITZERLAND COUNTY 4-H FAIRBOARD: $7,000 over 1y, 9.4% 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 SWISS WINE FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Switzerland County Historical Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC VEVAY INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Studio Gallery Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds SWITZERLAND COUNTY 4-H FAIRBOARD ↗

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.

Community Foundation of Switzerland County IncIN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Switzerland County 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 Switzerland County Tourism Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Switzerland County Tourism Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    3report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Switzerland County Tourism Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Switzerland County Tourism Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 7 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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