Iowa · Nonprofit
Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau
Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being IOWA WEST FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $910k
What Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau does
Mission
The Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau conducts a comprehensive marketing program for the purpose of promoting Council Bluffs and Pottawattamie County in a manner that results in a positive economic impact through travel, visiting and meeting in Council Bluffs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Conduct a comprehensive marketing program for the purpose of promoting the City of Council Bluffs and Pottawattamie County in a manner that results in a positive economic growth from travel, events and meetings in the City and County.
$906,166 spent$1,033,828 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $906,166.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $338k to $839k (+148%).
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 92% · 2018 92% · 2019 92% · 2020 93% · 2021 94% · 2022 86% · 2023 92% · 2024 82% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Mark Eckman
Executive Director
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 Council Bluffs Convention and 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
100% of Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
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.
Against its field
Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Council Bluffs Convention and 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.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Council Bluffs Convention and 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau?
- Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being IOWA WEST FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau.
- Who is the largest funder of Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau?
- IOWA WEST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Council Bluffs Convention and 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