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PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $950,514 to it, the largest being Foundation of the Professional Convention Management Association ($917,066). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$20M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$951k
Net assets
$3.2M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
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 ($14M) Expenses 100 ($14M) Net assets 100 ($5.1M)2018 Revenue 99 ($14M) Expenses 105 ($15M) Net assets 54 ($2.8M)2019 Revenue 104 ($14M) Expenses 92 ($13M) Net assets 78 ($4.0M)2020 Revenue 110 ($15M) Expenses 89 ($12M) Net assets 109 ($5.6M)2021 Revenue 84 ($12M) Expenses 79 ($11M) Net assets 104 ($5.3M)2022 Revenue 96 ($13M) Expenses 104 ($14M) Net assets 36 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 136 ($19M) Expenses 137 ($19M) Net assets 39 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 148 ($20M) Expenses 146 ($20M) Net assets 62 ($3.2M)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (146)Net assets (62)

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 14%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$257k
’17
−$1.1M
’18
$1.3M
’19
$2.6M
’20
$457k
’21
−$1.4M
’22
−$439k
’23
−$123k
’24
2.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $265k → $200k.

From the IRS filings of PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 96% · 2019 96% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

96% of PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Organizations like PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

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 Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Pcma Education Foundation · exempt
  • Pcma Icesap Pte Ltd · corp_trust
  • Pcma Services Inc · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: 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 PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION?
PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $950,514 to it, the largest being Foundation of the Professional Convention Management Association ($917,066). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $950,514 in grants to PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION?
Foundation of the Professional Convention Management Association is the largest funder on record, with $917,066 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROFESSIONAL CONVENTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing