Destination Grandview

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
800969442
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Columbus, OH, USA
Phone
6144534295
Rating
53
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Government and Public Administration

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$140,679
Expenses
$129,858
Assets
$148,767
Liabilities
$574

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Brian Cheek (Executive Director)
  • Michael Holtzleiter (Board President (Volunteer))
  • Megan Miller (Vice President & Secretary (Volunteer))

People named in this filing

  • Brian Cheek (Executive Director)
  • Michael Holtzleiter (Board President (Volunteer))
  • Megan Miller (Vice President & Secretary (Volunteer))

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Convention and visitors bureau for the City of Grandview Heights.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide advertising support and promotion for events, restaurants, bars, hotels, conferences and shopping destinations within the Destination Grandview CVB marketing area.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 12
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 11.9%; rating input score 12
  • Program expense ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 12

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.7%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 71.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 11.9% of revenue deployed · 12.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $16K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 12/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.