Ohio · Nonprofit
DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC
DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,778 to it, the largest being JUSTIN F CORESSEL CHARITABLE TRUST ($20,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $567k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $520k
What Defiance Development and Visitors Bureau Inc does
Mission
The purposes for which this corporation is organized are to enhance the appearance of the defiance area through beautification, restoration, and historic preservation; to provide educational and other services to strengthen and expand the economic base of downtown defiance; and to promote business, events, and activities in the defiance area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to develop projects to enhance, educate, and promote business in the defiance area. This includes organizing, supporting and overseeing the following committees: the design committee, whose purpose is to create an attractive, coordinated and quality image of the community by capitalizing on its unique assets and heritage; the promotion committee, whose primary responsibility is to market a unified, quality image of the business district as the center of activities, goods and services to retailers, residents, shoppers, investors and tourists; and the economic restructuring committee, works to develop a market strategy for the community that will result in an improved retail mix, a stronger tax base, increased investor confidence and a strong, stable role for the downtown area.
$382,553 spentof which $35,739 as grants$50,742 earned by the program80% of program spendingThe organization facilitates the collection of donations for the annual fireworks display for the defiance area. The organization also plans and coordinates the fourth of july events and pays all expenses out of the fireworks fund.
$30,491 spent6% of program spendingThe organization sponsors the annual lilac festival. The festival features the most prolific artists of northwestern ohio; arts, antiques & craft fair, garden market and farmers market. There are musicians performing thoughout the day with children's activities available, food vendors and much more.
$12,483 spent$15,226 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther programs that fall under the organization's exempt purpose include being the fiscal agent for the santa house and downtown christmas decorations. Each christmas season a small house is erected and decorated in the downtown area. A santa is hired and children from the area are invited down to visit santa with picture opportunities available. The organization is the fiscal agent for the defiance christmas decorations committee. Funds are collected through donations and the christmas committee meets and decides how to appropriately utilize these funds to decorate during christmas season.
$49,765 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $475,292.
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 2020 to 2021, from $359k to $458k (+28%).
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 73% · 2018 73% · 2019 66% · 2020 82% · 2021 61% · 2022 61% · 2023 55% · 2024 55% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $17k → $5k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $209k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Defiance Area Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC raised.
From the IRS filings of DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC’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
DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
37% 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 DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 71% · 2021 93% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
99% of DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC has grown faster than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC?
- DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,778 to it, the largest being JUSTIN F CORESSEL CHARITABLE TRUST ($20,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $32,778 in grants to DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC?
- JUSTIN F CORESSEL CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $20,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEFIANCE DEVELOPMENT AND VISITORS BUREAU INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 4 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