Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GREATER BOSTON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC
GREATER BOSTON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being NEO Philanthropy Inc ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $50M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $95k
- Net assets
- $23M
What Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc does
Mission
The greater boston convention and visitors bureau, inc.'s mission is to elevate boston's vibrant neighborhoods and diverse people, amplifying their stories and sharing them locally and across the globe. We deliver exciting and inclusive programs and services that drive our local economy by unifying an eclectic range of community stakeholders around the opportunities, experiences and energy that define our destination and enhance our industry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The gbcvb is a not-for-profit organization which promotes and markets greater boston for the purpose of enhancing the overall economy through visitor development. The gbcvb's primary sources of revenues and support are government grants and contracts, marketing programs, tourism destination marketing district special assessments and membership dues. Gbcvb also generates revenues from promotional publications, membership services, and other marketing projects.
The program described on its FY2023 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 2021 to 2022, from $10.0M to $32M (+219%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Dan Donahue
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 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: $275k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER BOSTON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER BOSTON CONVENTION & 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
GREATER BOSTON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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 GREATER BOSTON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC.
“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
GREATER BOSTON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states 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.
Organizations like GREATER BOSTON CONVENTION & 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Gbcvb Charitable Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER BOSTON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC: 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 GREATER BOSTON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC?
- GREATER BOSTON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being NEO Philanthropy Inc ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER BOSTON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $95,000 in grants to GREATER BOSTON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER BOSTON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC?
- NEO Philanthropy Inc 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 GREATER BOSTON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 3 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