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Washington County Visitors Association at a glance

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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

$264k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$90k
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.

Recreation & Sports$4.3MCommunity Improvement$1.0MArts & Culture$1.0MEnvironment$508kHuman Services$340kHealth$130kHousing & Shelter$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $230,152, the rows itemized in this filing. The $263,638 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $33,486 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 $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SHERWOOD ROTARY CLUB$10,000
RALEIGH HILLS BUSINESS ASSOC$10,000
FOREST GROVE CHAMB COMMERCE$8,500
WHEEL THE WORLD$7,508
ROTARY CLUB OF FOREST GROVE$7,500
CENTRO CULTURAL$7,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 6% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BEAVERTON TP OPS LLC: $10k → 8%BRE EVERBRIGHT M6 LLC: $20k → 8%SUMMIT HOTEL TRS 152 INC: $10k → 10%BRE SELECT HOTELS OPERATING LLC: $10k → 11%ALAMEDA PROPERTIES - CORNELL OAKS LLC: $10k → 16%PARAM ALOHA LLC: $10k → 8%SHANTI MANAGEMENT LLC: $10k → 8%TILLAMOOK FOREST HERITAGE TRUST: $200k → 12%C2 RECREATION CONSULTING: $13k → 12%NORTHWIND HOSPITALITY LLC: $10k → 13%EXTENDED STAY AMERICA INC: $40k → 10%TILLAMOOK FOREST HERITAGE TRUST: $100k → 12%CITY OF HILLSBORO: $2.0M → 8%SALMONBERRY TRAIL FOUNDATION: $185k → 8%CITY OF HILLSBORO: $75k → 8%BAG AND BAGGAGE PRODUCTIONS: $60k → 8%SALMONBERRY TRAIL FOUNDATION: $53k → 8%CITY OF HILLSBORO: $49k → 8%SALMONBERRY TRAIL FOUNDATION: $23k → 8%WASHINGTON COUNTY: $1.0M → 8%WASHINGTON COUNTY: $1.0M → 8%WASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF: $90k → 8%WASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF: $90k → 8%WASHINGTON COUNTY: $50k → 8%RICE NORTHWEST MUSEUM OF ROCKS AND MINERALS: $19k → 8%HILLSBORO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $12k → 8%VANCOUVER PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL LLP: $11k → 8%BEAVERTON ARTS FOUNDATION: $630k → 8%THE SALLE AURIOL FENCING CLUB: $100k → 8%BEAVERTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $12k → 8%CITY OF NORTH PLAINS: $35k → 8%NORTH PLAINS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $35k → 8%CITY OF NORTH PLAINS: $11k → 8%EMILY MILLER FINE ART LLC: $41k → 8%WASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PARTNERSHIP: $152k → 8%DAUNTLESS VETERAN FND: $15k → 8%WASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PARTNERSHIP: $78k → 8%WASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PARTNERSHIP: $78k → 8%WASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF: $72k → 8%NORDIC NORTHWEST: $50k → 8%TIGARD DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE: $35k → 8%TIGARD DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE: $11k → 8%FRIENDS OF TUALATIN RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFURE: $30k → 8%CITY OF SHERWOOD: $25k → 8%WASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PARTNERSHIP: $72k → 8%WASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF: $60k → 8%CITY OF BANKS: $12k → 8%CITY OF BANKS: $12k → 8%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

ID
OR
CT
CA
UT
KS
TN
NC
TX
FL
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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 12 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
70

Total granted

$2.6M
$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+28%

Still filing today

58%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k 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
Community ImprovementArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • ST
    SALMONBERRY TRAIL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $261k · revenue +9% · 35% of their budget
  • BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO
    2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +31%
  • Tigard Downtown Alliance
    2× · 2017–2020 · $46k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF HILLSBORO
    one grant, 2024 · $2.0M
  • WC
    WASHINGTON COUNTY
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
  • BA
    BEAVERTON ARTS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $630k · revenue +743% · 94% of their budget
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
Wallowa Valley Arts Council

To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.

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2
Prineville Downtown Association

Economic development of rural Oregon towns

Community Improvement
3
Central Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

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.

Community Improvement
4
Team for Economic Action in Molalla

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.

Community Improvement
5
Valley County Economic Develop Dba West Central Mtn Eco Develo

Economic development for the west central mountain idaho region

Community Improvement
6
Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend

Develop tourism industry in bend,oregon

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7
Bend Chamber of Commerce

Creating an environment where businesses, their employees and our community excel together through collaboration, advocacy, resources and leadership to meet bend's business challenges.

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8
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
9
Prineville-Crook Co Chamber of Commerce

To promote business and tourism in prineville and crook county oregon.

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10
Ncw Economic Development District

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…

Community Improvement
11
Tillamook Area Chamber of Commerce

Promote tourism/economic development

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12
Benton City Revitalization Organization
Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington County Chamber of Commerce; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 91 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF HILLSBORO: $2,000,000 · OtherCITY OF HILLSBOROWashington County Oregon: $1,050,000 · OtherWashington County OregonWASHINGTON COUNTY: $1,000,000 · OtherWASHINGTON COUNTY+71 more: $1,156,267 · Other+71 moreBEAVERTON ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $630,000 · Arts & CultureBEAVERTON A…Bag and Baggage Productions: $60,000 · Arts & CultureBag and Bag…NORDIC NORTHWEST: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNORDIC NORT…Tualatin Valley Creates: $29,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $19,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE PARTNERSHIP: $512,000 · Community ImprovementWASHINGTO…Tigard Downtown Alliance: $45,599 · Community ImprovementTigard Do…BEAVERTON DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC: $44,500 · Community ImprovementBEAVERTON…FOREST GROVECORNELIUS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $22,158 · Community Improvement+2 more: $15,000 · Community ImprovementSTATE FORESTS TRUST OF OREGON: $310,000 · EnvironmentSTATE FOR…SALMONBERRY TRAIL FOUNDATION: $261,000 · EnvironmentSALMONBER…FRIENDS OF THE TUALATIN RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE: $29,760 · EnvironmentBROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO: $150,000 · PhilanthropySALLE AURIOL FENCING CLUB INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsDAUNTLESS VETERAN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Public Benefit
Other$5,206,267Arts & Culture$788,000Community Improvement$639,257Environment$600,760Philanthropy$150,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Public Benefit$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEAVERTON ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $630,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE PARTNERSHIP: $512,000 over 6y, 100% of budgetSTATE FORESTS TRUST OF OREGON: $310,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetSALMONBERRY TRAIL FOUNDATION: $261,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetBROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO: $150,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSALLE AURIOL FENCING CLUB INC: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBag and Baggage Productions: $60,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNORDIC NORTHWEST: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE TUALATIN RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE: $29,760 over 1y, 24% of budgetTualatin Valley Creates: $29,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetFOREST GROVECORNELIUS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $22,158 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetRICE NORTHWEST MUSEUM OF ROCKS AND MINER: $19,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDAUNTLESS VETERAN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetBEAVERTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $12,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTUALATIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTIGARD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSherwood Area Chamber of Commerce: $7,500 over 1y, 6.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Regional Arts & Cultu…The Oregon Community …James F & Marion L Mi…Arts Action Alliance …The Hillsboro Communi…Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Jackson FoundationJuan Young TrustThe Autzen FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Regional Arts & Culture CouncilOR19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Washington County Visitors Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington County Visitors Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 91 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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