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FORT WORTH CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU

FORT WORTH CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,099 to it, the largest being FORT WORTH PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT FUND ($112,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$20M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$136k
Grants received
$9.8M
Net assets
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 103 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 96 ($2.9M)2019 Revenue 106 ($12M) Expenses 104 ($12M) Net assets 82 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 91 ($10M) Expenses 83 ($9.7M) Net assets 105 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 114 ($13M) Expenses 87 ($10M) Net assets 193 ($5.8M)2022 Revenue 143 ($16M) Expenses 126 ($15M) Net assets 230 ($6.9M)2023 Revenue 160 ($18M) Expenses 144 ($17M) Net assets 264 ($7.9M)2024 Revenue 170 ($19M) Expenses 155 ($18M) Net assets 299 ($9.0M)2025 Revenue 175 ($20M) Expenses 160 ($19M) Net assets 328 ($9.8M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (175)Expenses (160)Net assets (328)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% · 2024 96% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$500k
17
$126k
18
$328k
19
$495k
20
$2.6M
21
$1.3M
22
$1.0M
23
$964k
24
$806k
25
7.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $24k.

From the IRS filings of FORT WORTH CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

FORT WORTH CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 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.

Where its funders are

100% of FORT WORTH CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

18
22
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like FORT WORTH CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement · exempt
  • Fort Worth Sports Commission · exempt
  • Visit Fort Worth Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORT WORTH 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.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FORT WORTH CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU?
FORT WORTH CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,099 to it, the largest being FORT WORTH PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT FUND ($112,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FORT WORTH CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $136,099 in grants to FORT WORTH CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FORT WORTH CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU?
FORT WORTH PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $112,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORT WORTH CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing