Washington · Nonprofit
VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY
VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,000 to it, the largest being PACIFIC MOUNTAIN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $150k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Visitors and Convention Bureau of Thurston County does
Mission
We strengthen the region's economy by developing meaningful experiences and promoting travel to vibrant thurston county.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Produce and distribute visitors and convention bureau publications.
Advertise the region in travel and industry publications, broadcast media, and through direct selling to industry representatives.
Host an annual meeting to inform members and stakeholders of trends and activity in the tourism market.
Produce and distribute visitors and convention bureau publications.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $605k to $869k (+44%).
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 16% · 2021 12% · 2022 12% · 2023 5% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Annette Pitts
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
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: $85k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Thurston County Economic Development Cou). These are real filings, and they are not money VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY raised.
From the IRS filings of VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY’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
VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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 VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY.
“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 VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY'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.
Against its field
VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $150k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY
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.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY: 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 VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY?
- VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,000 to it, the largest being PACIFIC MOUNTAIN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $150,000 in grants to VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY.
- Who is the largest funder of VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY?
- PACIFIC MOUNTAIN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY 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 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. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing