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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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
79
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$8.3MPublic Benefit$5.2MRecreation & Sports$1.1MEducation$589kCommunity Improvement$529kHealth$273kEnvironment$188kScience & Tech$179kOther$0
02FY2025 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 79 grants below total $2,953,671, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,162,936 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $209,265 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

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
22
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL INDIAN CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $6k → 14%THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME: $18k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
KS
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 14 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
32

Total granted

$14M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

50%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthScience & TechCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NA
    National Association of Sports Commissions
    3× · 2023–2025 · $200k · revenue +39%
  • TP
    TRAVEL PORTLAND
    3× · 2018–2020 · $195k · revenue +21%
  • OS
    Oregon Sports Authority
    3× · 2017–2019 · $71k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • MC
    Multnomah County Joint Office of Homeless Services
    one grant, 2020 · $345k
  • M
    MHCC
    one grant, 2019 · $159k
  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR PROFESSIONAL IN INFECTION CONTROL & EPIDEMOLOGY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +65%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
2
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
3
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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4
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

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…

Education
5
American Foreign Service Association

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…

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6
American Association of Physicists in Medicine

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,…

Science & Tech
7
American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

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;…

Science & Tech
8
National Association for College Admission Counseling

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

Education
9
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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10
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

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…

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11
Automotive Service Association

To advance professionalism and excellence in automotive service through education, representation, and member services.

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12
American Gas Association

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Society for Engineering Education; 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.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 117 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
31/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERC: $12,578,638 · OtherMERC+83 more: $3,369,402 · Other+83 moreNational Association of Sports Commissions: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsROSE CITY ROLLERS: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA TAEKWONDO INC: $7,450 · Recreation & SportsTeachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc: $78,500 · EducationASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES: $17,160 · EducationASSOCIATION FOR CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION (ACTE): $16,540 · EducationWESTERN ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY PERSONNEL: $16,160 · EducationNational Association of State Directors of Migrant Education: $15,000 · EducationNACADA THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY FOR ACADEMIC ADVISING INC: $12,522 · EducationDRUPALCON INC THE DRUPAL ASSOCIATION: $11,519 · EducationTHE WESTERN PROVINCE OF KAPPA ALPHA PSI FRATERNITY INC: $9,400 · EducationASSOCIATION FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION: $9,400 · EducationNON-PROFIT TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE NETWORK DBA NTEN: $7,500 · Education+3 more: $17,263 · EducationNATIONAL COALITION OF BLACK MEETING PROFESSIONALS INC: $118,000 · Community ImprovementCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS: $20,000 · Community ImprovementPeak Load Management Alliance Inc: $13,420 · Community ImprovementASSOCIATION FOR PROFESSIONAL IN INFECTION CONTROL & EPIDEMOLOGY INC: $100,000 · HealthTHE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF IMMUNOLOGISTS INC: $25,000 · HealthSOCIETY FOR OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA AND PERINATOLOGY: $20,000 · HealthAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHARMACOLOGY & EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS INCORPORATED: $7,000 · HealthPARENT HEART WATCH: $5,760 · HealthSOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS: $14,460 · Science & TechAMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION: $11,870 · Science & TechNATIONAL HUMAN SERVICES DATA CONSORTIUM: $6,643 · Science & TechASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY INC: $5,581 · Science & TechPORTLAND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY: $5,040 · Science & TechNATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC: $18,300 · Human ServicesAMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL INDIAN CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $6,020 · Human Services
Other$15,948,040Recreation & Sports$222,450Education$210,964Community Improvement$171,420Health$157,760Science & Tech$43,594Human Services$31,320

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES: $401,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Association of Sports Commissions: $200,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTRAVEL PORTLAND: $195,375 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR PROFESSIONAL IN INFECTION CONTROL & EPIDEMOLOGY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTeachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc: $78,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOregon Sports Authority: $71,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetUSA ARTISTIC SWIMMING: $45,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF IMMUNOLOGISTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS (ASHP): $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational AIDS Society - USA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWEST COLUMBIA GORGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $18,750 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES: $17,160 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION (ACTE): $16,540 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Society of Echocardiography Incorporated: $16,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF APPRAISERS: $16,360 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY PERSONNEL: $16,160 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR NEUROCHEMISTRY: $15,880 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetROSE CITY ROLLERS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPacific Northwest District of Kiwanis Intl: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNational Association of State Directors of Migrant Education: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetInternational Law Students Association: $14,880 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS: $14,460 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNACADA THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY FOR ACADEMIC ADVISING INC: $12,522 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION: $11,870 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL VETERINARY ACUPUNCTURE SOCIETY INC: $10,140 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF OREGON CITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WESTERN PROVINCE OF KAPPA ALPHA PSI FRATERNITY INC: $9,400 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSociety for American Archaeology: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN MENSA LTD: $7,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNON-PROFIT TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE NETWORK DBA NTEN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATION MARKET ASSOCIATION: $7,498 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CITYCOUNTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: $7,361 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE STATES ALLIANCE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Society for Engineering Education: $6,801 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL HUMAN SERVICES DATA CONSORTIUM: $6,643 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $5,820 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY INC: $5,581 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Oregon Inc: $5,299 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Chapter PEO Sisterhood: $5,273 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $5,103 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Alfred P Sloan Founda…Gates FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustTides FoundationThe Oregon Community …The Ford FoundationVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Alfred P Sloan FoundationNY13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Visitor Development Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Visitor Development Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 117 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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