Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc
Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $665,508 to it, the largest being THE LOWELL FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ($480,358). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $354k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $666k
- Net assets
- $102k
What Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc does
Mission
The Bureau was established to stimulate the region's economy by promoting and increasing tourism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Burerau engages in marketing programs, familiarization tours, public relations programs and co-operative efforts with local hotels, convention and attraction organizers and operators, and other businesses in furtherance of the above statement.
$609,070 spent$20,717 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe Bureau engages in marketing programs, familiarization tours, public relations programs and co-operativve efforts with local hotels, convention and attraction organizers and operators, and other businesses in furtherance of the above statement.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $609,070.
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 $470k to $929k (+97%).
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 23% · 2018 40% · 2019 32% · 2020 40% · 2021 77% · 2022 92% · 2023 86% · 2024 78% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Brian Brdabury
Exec. Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $138k → $46k.
From the IRS filings of Greater Merrimack Valley Convention 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
Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 86% · 2019 87% · 2020 82% · 2021 100% · 2022 52% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.
“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
100% of Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and 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 Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc?
- Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $665,508 to it, the largest being THE LOWELL FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ($480,358). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $665,508 in grants to Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc?
- THE LOWELL FESTIVAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $480,358 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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