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VISITGREENVILLESC

VISITGREENVILLESC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300,000 to it, the largest being Greenville Area Development Corporation ($300,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$16M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$300k
Net assets
$4.0M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Visitgreenvillesc does

Mission

Vgsc is organized to foster improved business conditions for the tourism and convention industry in the upstate of sc with the vision of becoming one of the most visited travel destinations in the southeast.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Visitgreenvillesc reached nearly 22 million u.s. Households, influenced 1.5 million incremental leisure trips, and generated more than 450 million in leisure tourism spending in greenville county. The organization also booked 271 future groups worth 152 million in meetings and events impact, certified more than 400 residents as tourism ambassadors, and continued strengthening greenvilles appeal for talent and business attraction. Nearly 9 million in public funding delivered an estimated 67 in local economic impact and 5 in state and local taxes for every 1 invested.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The 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 ($7.9M) Expenses 100 ($7.7M) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 117 ($9.3M) Expenses 119 ($9.2M) Net assets 101 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 120 ($9.4M) Expenses 115 ($8.9M) Net assets 131 ($2.4M)2020 Revenue 78 ($6.2M) Expenses 80 ($6.2M) Net assets 129 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 115 ($9.0M) Expenses 87 ($6.7M) Net assets 257 ($4.7M)2023 Revenue 153 ($12M) Expenses 145 ($11M) Net assets 281 ($5.1M)2024 Revenue 184 ($15M) Expenses 215 ($17M) Net assets 166 ($3.0M)2025 Revenue 201 ($16M) Expenses 193 ($15M) Net assets 217 ($4.0M)
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Revenue (201)Expenses (193)Net assets (217)

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 $4.1M to $7.3M (+79%).

$3.1M
$2.7M
$3.3M
$4.1M
$7.3M
$7.3M
$7.9M
$7.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 62% · 2018 65% · 2019 67% · 2020 74% · 2021 68% · 2023 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$149k
’17
$14k
’18
$547k
’19
−$29k
’20
$2.3M
’21
$809k
’23
−$2.1M
’24
$926k
’25
1.9
months of
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.

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Listed3333343524212221
Joined·+0+6+11+6·+3+5
No longer listed·051017·26
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of VISITGREENVILLESC’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 VISITGREENVILLESC's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

SC

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like VISITGREENVILLESC

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 South Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISITGREENVILLESC: 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 VISITGREENVILLESC?
VISITGREENVILLESC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300,000 to it, the largest being Greenville Area Development Corporation ($300,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VISITGREENVILLESC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $300,000 in grants to VISITGREENVILLESC.
Who is the largest funder of VISITGREENVILLESC?
Greenville Area Development Corporation is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VISITGREENVILLESC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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