· Public charity
Tc Convention & Visitor's Bureau
To promote, protect, and enhance the traverse city region, securing our position as a premier, four-season destination.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2017
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRE ICE ARENA | $110,000 |
| TCCVB EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $80,090 |
| GT REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
3 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tc Convention & Visitor's Bureau funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tc Convention & Visitor's Bureau. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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