· Public charity
Visitor Development Fund Inc
To plan, budget for and administer the expenditure of the allocation of revenues from the 2.5% increase in the multnomah county transient lodging tax and vehicle rental tax which shall be expended to attract visitors to portland and multnomah county that maximize hotel occupancy and vehicle rentals in the city of portland.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 79 grants below total $2,953,671 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,162,936 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $209,265 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $286k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $545k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $506k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERC | $1,316,935 |
| NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $300,000 |
| COALITION 375 LLC | $150,000 |
| EMC STRATEGIES | $139,000 |
| NATIONAL COALITION OF BLACK MEETING PROFESSIONALS INC | $118,000 |
| BASIS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES INC | $99,300 |
| NIKE INC | $38,610 |
| A2Z PORTLAND LLC | $31,250 |
| SPORTS EVENTS AND TOURISM ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| TOPAZ FARM | $22,574 |
| ADIDAS AMERICA INC | $22,075 |
| VIVA EVENTS LLC | $21,998 |
| SOCIETY FOR OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA AND PERINATOLOGY | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 70 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- NANational Association of Sports Commissions3× · 2023–2025 · $200k · revenue +39%
- TPTRAVEL PORTLAND3× · 2018–2020 · $195k · revenue +21%
- OSOregon Sports Authority3× · 2017–2019 · $71k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- MCMultnomah County Joint Office of Homeless Servicesone grant, 2020 · $345k
- MMHCCone grant, 2019 · $159k
- AFASSOCIATION FOR PROFESSIONAL IN INFECTION CONTROL & EPIDEMOLOGY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +65%
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
Advancing medicine through excellence in the science, education and professional practice of medical physics. the mission is carried out through driving scientific and clinical innovation in medical physics to improve human health,…
To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…
To advance professionalism and excellence in automotive service through education, representation, and member services.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Society for Engineering Education and the most unlike its peers is International Law Students Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 117 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 EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds National Association of Sports Commissions ↗
- Who funds TRAVEL PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COALITION OF BLACK MEETING PROFESSIONALS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR PROFESSIONAL IN INFECTION CONTROL & EPIDEMOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc ↗
- Who funds Oregon Sports Authority ↗
- Who funds USA ARTISTIC SWIMMING ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF IMMUNOLOGISTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS (ASHP) ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA AND PERINATOLOGY ↗
- Who funds International AIDS Society - USA ↗
- Who funds WEST COLUMBIA GORGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES ↗
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: Alfred P Sloan Foundation · Gates Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Tides Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Visitor Development Fund Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- National Center for Victims of Crime Inc — 10% of income from government
- Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians — 10% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- League of Oregon Cities — 3% of income from government
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (Ashp) — 1% of income from government
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.