Colorado · Nonprofit
DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION
DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Dimond Family Foundation ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $178k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $498k
What Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau Foundation does
Mission
To advance the travel and tourism industry in metro denver area through activities and projects that enhance education, professional development and training for individuals involved or interested in the travel and tourism industry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The foundation provides scholarships and educational support for students attending denver area colleges and universities pursuing undergraduate degrees in tourism and hospitality.
$141,689 spentof which $141,689 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $141,689.
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 $356k to $417k (+17%).
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.
83% of DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Nicole Marsh
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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Colorado Health Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION’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
DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, 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.
Against its field
DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Visit Denver · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION: 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 DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION?
- DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Dimond Family Foundation ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION?
- Dimond Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENVER METRO CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 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