Georgia · Nonprofit
AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being RHODES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Augusta Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc Dba Destination Augusta does
Mission
The augusta convention and visitors bureau develops and promotes our community, inspiring people to have unforgettable experiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides services to augusta-richmond county to promote the growth and development of conventions, tourism, and special events in the augusta, ga area.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 $5.6M to $7.7M (+37%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 10% · 2023 29% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Bennish Brown
CEO
Board chair
James Heffner
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $20k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $378k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA raised.
From the IRS filings of AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA’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.
How concentrated its funding is
AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
100% of AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA
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In Georgia
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA?
- AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being RHODES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,000 in grants to AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA.
- Who is the largest funder of AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA?
- RHODES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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