Iowa · Nonprofit
AMES CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU
AMES CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,352 to it, the largest being GOFUNDMEORG ($11,352). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Ames Convention & Visitors Bureau does
Mission
The mission of the ames convention and visitors bureau is to strengthen the ames economy by attracting events and tourism and promote ames as a travel destination.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization of conventions and events requiring more than one hotel and meeting facility.
$1,875,614 spentof which $118,428 as grants$68,163 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,875,614.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.4M to $3.1M (+29%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 89% · 2018 84% · 2019 84% · 2020 84% · 2021 92% · 2022 90% · 2023 93% · 2024 88% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Duane Reeves
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of AMES CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
AMES CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like AMES CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMES CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMES CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU?
- AMES CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,352 to it, the largest being GOFUNDMEORG ($11,352). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMES CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $11,352 in grants to AMES CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU.
- Who is the largest funder of AMES CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU?
- GOFUNDMEORG is the largest funder on record, with $11,352 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMES CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing