Washington · Nonprofit
TRI-CITIES VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU
TRI-CITIES VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON TOURISM ALLIANCE ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Tri-Cities Visitor & Convention Bureau does
Mission
The mission of visit tri-cities is to promote, market and sell the region as a preferred destination to visitors. All activities are directed toward the attraction of visitors & conventions to the tri cities area. Various marketing activities are conducted to meet this objective.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
447,733 visitor inquiries were processed in 2025. Visitors to the benton/franklin county area spent $656.4 million. Travel related employment totaled 5,855 jobs locally and tourism generated local and state tax receipts of $83.3 million.
In 2025, 146,886 delegates attended conventions, recreational, sports, and group events in the tri-cities. They worked with trade and travel media to generate 76 travel stories; helped with marketing for the manhattan project national historical park and visitor center, and continued coordination of tri-cities rivershore enhancement council activities.
Hosted a successful ironman 70.3 washington tri-cities event that brought in 7,500 visitors from 43 states and 14 countries and generated an estimated $6-$7 million in economic impact
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.0M to $3.6M (+20%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Kevin Lewis
President & CEO
Board chair
Buck Taft
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of TRI-CITIES VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU’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
100% of TRI-CITIES VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU's grant income comes from Washington funders.
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 TRI-CITIES VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRI-CITIES VISITOR & CONVENTION 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRI-CITIES VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU?
- TRI-CITIES VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON TOURISM ALLIANCE ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRI-CITIES VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $60,000 in grants to TRI-CITIES VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU.
- Who is the largest funder of TRI-CITIES VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU?
- WASHINGTON TOURISM ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRI-CITIES VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 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