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Visitors Center Inc

To inspire residents and visitors to experience columbus and bartholomew county as an ideal destination for leisure, sports, and travel while sharing the unique character of our community to create memorable and meaningful experiences.

$149k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
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.

Arts & Culture$443kPhilanthropy$125kRecreation & Sports$49kCommunity Improvement$37kYouth Development$27kHuman Services$20kReligion$16kPublic Benefit$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $106,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $149,150 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,150 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 $10k6 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $62k
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBUS AREA ARTS COUNCIL$16,000
BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$13,500
YELLOW TRAIL MUSEUM$12,000
KIDSCOMMONS$10,500
INDIANA GIRLS WRESTLING LLC$10,000
MILL RACE THEATRE COMPANY$9,000
OFFICE OF DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT$8,000
GOOD SHEPHERD RADIO INC$7,000
COLUMBUS INDIANA PHILHARMONIC$7,000
ATTERBURY-BAKALAR AIR MUSEUM$7,000
COLUMBUS ROBOTICS$6,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE ARC OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY: $9k → 13%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.
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$432k · 10 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$432k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+45%

Still filing today

90%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • LC
    Landmark Columbus Foundation Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $118k · revenue +118%
  • CS
    COLUMBUS SCOTTISH FESTIVAL INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +38%
  • HO
    HERITAGE OF HOPE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • HT
    HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue +61%
  • Indiana University Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +65%
  • EP
    EDINBURGH POLICE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $14k
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
Columbus Capital Foundation Inc

The organization was established to support the heritage fund - the community foundation of bartholomew county, inc., the city of columbus and bartholomew county in indiana by preserving and maintaining land and buildings of historic or…

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2
Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives Inc

The mission of the columbus indiana architectural archives is to collect, conserve and promote the use of records that document the architectural engineering and arts associated with built environments of columbus, indiana.

Arts & Culture
3
The Columbus Museum

Maintain and operate a museum to collect, preserve and display articles of our community history which is open to the public

Arts & Culture
4
Columbus Music Commission

To nurture a community where people can prosper in the business of music while contributing to columbus' overall cultural and economic growth.

Community Improvement
5
Historic Columbus Foundation Inc

Preserve historical structures, revitalize historic neighborhoods, educate the public about local history, advocate benefits derived from historic preservation

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6
Columbus Library Foundation

To provide financial support to the columbus public library

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7
Columbus Jewish Historical Society

To facilitate the collection, preservation and education of the jewish history of central ohio.

Arts & Culture
8
Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce

Various programs promoting business and economic well being of the community.

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9
Columbus Charities

Receive and provide contributions for charitable and educational activities

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10
Columbus Housing Initiative Inc

Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing

Housing & Shelter
11
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
12
Indian Hill Historical Museum Associatio

Archive History of Community

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Area Arts Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Columbus Robotics Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 29 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBUS AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC: $89,583 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS AREA ARTS COUNCIL INCATTERBURY-BAKALAR AIR MUSEUM: $35,000 · Arts & CultureATTERBURY-BAKALAR AIR MUSEUMHERITAGE OF HOPE: $26,000 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE OF HOPECOLUMBUS PRO MUSICA INC DBA COLUMBUS INDIANA PHILHARMONIC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS PRO MUSICA INC DBA COLU…Good Shepherd Radio Inc: $16,000 · Arts & CultureGood Shepherd Radio IncBARTHOLOMEW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13,500 · Arts & CultureBARTHOLOMEW COUNTY HISTORICAL SO…KIDSCOMMONS COLUMBUS COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $10,500 · Arts & CultureHistoric Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureYELLOW TRAIL MUSEUM INC: $72,000 · OtherYELLOW TRAIL MUSEUM INCHOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $22,417 · OtherHOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY S…EDINBURGH POLICE DEPARTMENT: $13,500 · OtherEDINBURGH POLICE DEPARTMENTCOLUMBUS ROBOTICS INC: $13,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS ROBOTICS INCCity of Columbus - Columbus Animal Care Services: $10,924 · OtherCity of Columbus - Columbus …INDIANA GIRLS WRESTLING INC: $10,000 · OtherHOPE TOWN SQUARE REVITALIZATION - TOWN OF HOPE: $10,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS CRAFT BEERFEST CO: $10,000 · OtherMILL RACE THEATRE COMPANY: $9,000 · OtherRED ARCH COMMUNITY EVENTS INC: $7,000 · Other+2 more: $10,000 · OtherLandmark Columbus Foundation Inc: $117,750 · EducationLandmark Columbus Fo…Indiana University Foundation: $20,000 · EducationIndiana University F…HERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyHERITAGE FUND - THE…COLUMBUS SCOTTISH FESTIVAL INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsCERA SPORTS CORPORATION INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsOffice of Downtown Development: $16,500 · Community ImprovementLINCOLN CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY CENTER: $12,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ARC OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY: $9,000 · Human ServicesBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$216,583Other$187,841Education$137,750Philanthropy$125,000Recreation & Sports$35,000Community Improvement$28,500Human Services$9,000Youth Development$5,000

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 budgetHERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLandmark Columbus Foundation Inc: $117,750 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCOLUMBUS AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC: $89,583 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetATTERBURY-BAKALAR AIR MUSEUM: $35,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCOLUMBUS SCOTTISH FESTIVAL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetHERITAGE OF HOPE: $26,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetHOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $22,417 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOffice of Downtown Development: $16,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS PRO MUSICA INC DBA COLUMBUS INDIANA PHILHARMONIC: $16,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Radio Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCOLUMBUS ROBOTICS INC: $13,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetLINCOLN CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY CENTER: $12,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHistoric Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS CRAFT BEERFEST CO: $10,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetTHE ARC OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY: $9,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCERA SPORTS CORPORATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Heritage Fund - the C…Clarence E Custer and…Elizabeth Ruddick Nug…United Way of Barthol…Carl Marshall Reeves …Amazonsmile Foundation
Heritage Fund - the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County IncIN30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Heritage Fund - the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County Inc · Clarence E Custer and Inez R Custer · Elizabeth Ruddick Nugent Foundation · United Way of Bartholomew County Inc · Carl Marshall Reeves and Mildred Almen Reeves Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Visitors Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Visitors Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 29 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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