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Tourism Cares Inc

Tourism cares unites the travel industry and is a catalyst of positive social, environmental and economic impact for the people and places of travel.

$72k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$15k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Tourism Cares Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$15k100%
FY20232$14k50%
FY20222$19k0%
FY20214$59k75%
FY20205$40k60%
FY20196$39k67%
FY20185$138k80%
FY20177$68kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$123kArts & Culture$85kEnvironment$54kFood & Nutrition$32kCommunity Improvement$28kRecreation & Sports$27kHuman Services$23kInternational$20k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
OR
NV
RI
CA
VA
DC
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Caribbean Hotel Foundation Inc$80,000168%
Tripschool LLC$27,9762n/a
Three Square$27,00020%
World Central Kitchen Inc$25,00020%
The Mountain Institute Inc$23,50021%
Media Arts Institute$22,8003n/a
Inspire Learning Academy$15,00016%
Port Aransas Community Theatre$15,00015%
Texas Artists Museum Society$15,0001n/a
Friends of India Point Park$13,0001n/a
Show all 22 grantees
All grantees of Tourism Cares Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Caribbean Hotel Foundation Inc$80,000168%
Tripschool LLC$27,9762n/a
Three Square$27,00020%
World Central Kitchen Inc$25,00020%
The Mountain Institute Inc$23,50021%
Media Arts Institute$22,8003n/a
Inspire Learning Academy$15,00016%
Port Aransas Community Theatre$15,00015%
Texas Artists Museum Society$15,0001n/a
Friends of India Point Park$13,0001n/a
National Park Foundation$12,00020%
Freedom Trail Foundation Inc$12,00021%
Island Conservation$11,91510%
Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc$10,00010%
Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc$10,00010%
Redwood Parks Conservancy$8,00011%
Departamento de la Comida de Puerto Rico Inc$7,5001n/a
Black History Museum & Clt Ctr$7,50011%
Foundation for Puerto Rico Inc$7,50010%
Oakland Convention & Visitors Bureau DBA Visit Oakland$5,00010%
Yellowstone Forever$4,00010%
Yosemite Foundation$4,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Tourism Cares Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCaribbean Hotel Foundation Inc: $80,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetThree Square: $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Mountain Institute Inc: $23,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetInspire Learning Academy: $15,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetPort Aransas Community Theatre: $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom Trail Foundation Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIsland Conservation: $11,915 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOakland Childrens Fairyland Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRedwood Parks Conservancy: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBlack History Museum & Clt Ctr: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFoundation for Puerto Rico Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOakland Convention & Visitors Bureau DBA Visit Oakland: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYellowstone Forever: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYosemite Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Network for GoodDC6.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About Tourism Cares Inc

How much does Tourism Cares Inc give?
Tourism Cares Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $15,000, out of $71,785 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Tourism Cares Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (22%), Environment (14%).
Who are Tourism Cares Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Caribbean Hotel Foundation Inc ($80k), Tripschool LLC ($28k), Three Square ($27k).
Does Tourism Cares Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tourism Cares Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Tourism Cares Inc based?
Tourism Cares Inc is based in MA.

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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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