How much did VISITOR DEVELOPMENT FUND INC grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 95% of VISITOR DEVELOPMENT FUND INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

conventions meetings

2020

promotion

2021

—

2022

—

2023

conventions meetings

2025

convention meetings

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k41 grants · $286k
$10k–50k32 grants · $545k
$50k–250k4 grants · $506k
$250k+2 grants · $1.6M

$9,440

Median grant

States reached

$9.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS$20,000
SOCIETY FOR OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA AND PERINATOLOGY$20,000
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION$20,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.0M · 6 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 76 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.0M

$831k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

-7%

Still filing today

67%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationScience & TechCommunity ImprovementHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

TP
TRAVEL PORTLAND
3× · 2018–2020 · $195k · revenue +21%
SE
SPORTS EVENTS AND TOURISM ASSOCIATION
2× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +36%
OS
OREGON SPORTS AUTHORITY
2× · 2018–2019 · $60k · revenue +147%

Funded once

MC
MULTNOMAH COUNTY
one grant, 2020 · $345k
MH
MT HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE
one grant, 2019 · $159k
TI
TESOL INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2023 · $79k · revenue +1%

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

04Your field

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.

Technology Association of Oregon

Support our members and promote the growth and quality of oregon's technology industry.

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Oregon Restaurant and

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

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Portland Business Alliance

To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.

Community Improvement

Oregon Business & Industry Association

To promote prosperity and the highest quality of life for oregonians by advancing oregon business.

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Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the eugene area chamber of commerce is to promote a healthy local economy by influencing business success, public policy, and community development.

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National Association of

Promote higher education and development through intercollegiate athletics.

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Oregon Society of Certified

Professional organization for certified public accountants in the state of oregon

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National Association of Corporate

The organization promotes high professional standards and provides governance education to boards of directors and senior corporate management.

Philanthropy

Oregon Medical Association

Serving and supporting physicians in their efforts to improve the health of oregonians.

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Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments

To strengten local government while combining total resources to meet regional challenges beyond individual capacities and to serve as a mutual forum to identify, study, and to bring into focus regional interest.

Public Benefit

Pacific Northwest Economic Region

To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…

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National Association for College

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is League of Oregon Cities and the most unlike its peers is West Columbia Gorge Chamber of Commerce. 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 38 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/95

the rest of the field

10%

2,407/25,336

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.

05the grantee network

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/50

Grantees still filing

37/50

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$10,928,225Education$183,361Community Improvement$171,420Recreation & Sports$107,450Health$32,760Human Services$31,320Science & Tech$29,134

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: OREGON SPORTS AUTHORITY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 943211472 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on OREGON SPORTS AUTHORITY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Visitor Development Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Visitor Development Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

VISITOR DEVELOPMENT FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Visitor Development Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph

VISITOR DEVELOPMENT FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Visitor Development Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph