· Public charity
Washington County Visitors Association
The wcva exists to encourage visitors to stay, spend and play in washington county, oregon, by selling, marketing and promoting the county's diverse collection of tourism-related assets
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 11 grants below total $230,152 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $263,638 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $33,486 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 $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $109k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF | $90,000 |
| EMILY MILLER FINE ART LLC | $41,144 |
| TUALATIN VALLEY CREATES | $20,000 |
| DAUNTLESS VETERAN FND | $15,000 |
| C2 RECREATION CONSULTING | $13,000 |
| RALEIGH HILLS BUSINESS ASSOC | $10,000 |
| SHERWOOD ROTARY CLUB | $10,000 |
| FOREST GROVE CHAMB COMMERCE | $8,500 |
| WHEEL THE WORLD | $7,508 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF FOREST GROVE | $7,500 |
| CENTRO CULTURAL | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 6% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 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, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k 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
- STSALMONBERRY TRAIL FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2023 · $261k · revenue +9% · 35% of their budget
BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +31%
Tigard Downtown Alliance2× · 2017–2020 · $46k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- COCITY OF HILLSBOROone grant, 2024 · $2.0M
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $1.0M
- BABEAVERTON ARTS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $630k · revenue +743% · 94% of their budget
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.
To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.
Economic development of rural Oregon towns
We increase access to economic opportunities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals in Central Washington by connecting and providing them with resources, representation, and opportunities to build community.
To build and maintain strong, diverse business districts; to create and retain living wage jobs; and to promote Molalla as a rewarding place to work, live, invest, and shop.
Economic development for the west central mountain idaho region
Develop tourism industry in bend,oregon
Creating an environment where businesses, their employees and our community excel together through collaboration, advocacy, resources and leadership to meet bend's business challenges.
To promote business and tourism in prineville and crook county oregon.
To foster an innovative and resilient ecomomy for north cental washington's businesses, workers and families. as a regional organization, we create an arthurian-style partnership among regional communitites to identify and advance projects…
Promote tourism/economic development
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington County Chamber of Commerce and the most unlike its peers is Dauntless Veteran Foundation Inc. 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 22 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 91 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 BEAVERTON ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds STATE FORESTS TRUST OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds SALMONBERRY TRAIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds SALLE AURIOL FENCING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Washington County Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds Bag and Baggage Productions ↗
- Who funds NORDIC NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Tigard Downtown Alliance ↗
- Who funds BEAVERTON DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TUALATIN RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds Tualatin Valley Creates ↗
- Who funds FOREST GROVECORNELIUS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds RICE NORTHWEST MUSEUM OF ROCKS AND MINER ↗
- Who funds DAUNTLESS VETERAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVERTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds TUALATIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
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: Regional Arts & Culture Council · The Oregon Community Foundation · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · Arts Action Alliance Foundation Dba Clackamas County Arts Alliance · The Hillsboro Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Autzen Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Washington County Visitors Association 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.
- Beaverton Downtown Association Inc — 52% of income from government
- Tualatin Valley Creates — 40% of income from government
- Friends of the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge — 23% of income from government
- Broadway Rose Theatre Co — 1% of income from government
- Salmonberry Trail Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Beaverton Arts Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Forest Grovecornelius Chamber of Commerce — 0% of income from government
- Centro Cultural of Washington County — 0% 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.