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Abilene Chamber of Commerce

The mission of ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE is to promote the economy and quality of life in abilene, texas by providing services to local businesses, educational opportunities, promoting abilene as a travel destination, and promoting cultural activities and organizations.

$153k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$775kCommunity Improvement$108kPublic Benefit$63kEducation$56kAnimals$18kRecreation & Sports$16kReligion$6k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $110,858, the rows itemized in this filing. The $153,184 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $42,326 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
$16,263
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRACE MUSEUM$26,413
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS$22,500
ABILENE PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION$22,262
NATIONAL CENTER FOR ILLUSTRATED LIT$16,263
ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSTIY$6,000
HISTORIC PARMOUNT THEATRE$6,000
ABILENE BALLET THEATRE$6,000
ABILENE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$5,420
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HERU Community Development Corporat: $54k → 11%West Central Texas Council of Gover: $50k → 16%Abilene Black Chamber of Commerce: $54k → 22%Cisco College: $25k → 16%Grace Museum: $27k → 22%West Central TX Council of Govt: $13k → 16%Grace Museum: $26k → 22%Abilene Zoological Society: $7k → 16%GRACE MUSEUM: $26k → 22%Abilene Zoological Society: $6k → 16%Grace Museum: $26k → 22%Wylie Fastpitch Softball Associatio: $6k → 16%Grace Museum: $26k → 22%Grace Museum: $26k → 22%Grace Museum: $26k → 22%Abilene Christian University: $6k → 16%Grace Museum: $26k → 22%Grace Museum: $25k → 22%Center for Contemporary Art: $24k → 22%Abilene Community Threatre: $7k → 16%Center for Contemporary Art: $24k → 22%Center for Contemporary Art: $24k → 22%Center for Contemporary Art: $24k → 22%Center for Contemporary Art: $24k → 22%Center for Contemporary Art: $24k → 22%Center for Contemporary Art: $23k → 22%Abilene Philharmonic Assoc: $23k → 22%Center for Contemporary Art: $23k → 22%CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS: $23k → 22%ABILENE PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $22k → 22%Abilene Philharmonic Assoc: $22k → 22%Abilene Philharmonic Assoc: $22k → 22%Abilene Philharmonic Assoc: $22k → 22%Abilene Philharmonic Assoc: $22k → 22%Abilene Philharmonic Assoc: $22k → 22%Abilene Philharmonic Assoc: $22k → 22%Abilene Philharmonic Assoc: $21k → 22%National Center for Illustrated Lit: $19k → 22%National Center for Illustrated Lit: $16k → 22%National Center for Illustrated Lit: $16k → 22%National Center for Illustrated Lit: $16k → 22%National Center for Illustrated Lit: $16k → 22%National Center for Illustrated Lit: $16k → 22%National Center for Illustrated Lit: $16k → 22%NATIONAL CENTER FOR ILLUSTRATED LIT: $16k → 22%National Center for Illustrated Lit: $15k → 22%Abilene High School Booster Club: $10k → 22%Abilene Christian University: $9k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$968k · 10 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$968k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+161%

Still filing today

90%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GM
    GRACE MUSEUM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $257k · revenue +5%
  • AP
    Abilene Philharmonic Association
    9× · 2017–2025 · $197k · revenue +71%
  • CF
    Center for Contemporary Arts
    8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • HC
    HERU COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $54k
  • AB
    ABILENE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    one grant, 2023 · $54k · 61% of their budget
  • CC
    CISCO COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Abilene Opera Association

The organization produces an opera or other musical production every year or every other year, and offers related Master Classes and other educational opportunities for elementary school through college.

Arts & Culture
2
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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3
Abilene Christian School Inc

The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.

Education
4
Abilene Arts Alliance

To strengthen the area's cultural life through strategic investment in its cultural resources; to be an advocate for cultural organizations, activities and initiatives throughout the community; and to ensure the cultural development of…

Arts & Culture
5
The Abilene Womans Club

The mission of The Abilene Woman's club shall be the cultural and civic advancement of Abilene through the study of literature, history, science, painting, music and other fine arts. Preservation, maintenance and operations of the…

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6
Great Plains Theatre Inc

Great plains theatre inc is a non-profit organization operating for the benefit of abilene and surrounding communities in the effort to promote the art of live professional theatre performances, cinema and youth education activities.

Arts & Culture
7
Abilene Preservation League Inc

Our mission is to preserve historic buildings and promote historic preservation.

Arts & Culture
8
Abilene Classical Academy

Education of Children from pre-school through 10th grade

Education
9
Abilene Performing Arts Company Inc

Musical theatre, education and performance

Arts & Culture
10
B Iden Payne Awards Council

Celebrating excellence in Austin Theatre

Arts & Culture
11
Boys and Girls Club of Abilene Inc

To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

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12
American Baroque Opera Company

American baroque opera company operates in the state of texas for the primary purpose of furthering the appreciaton of music, particularly opera, for the general public. american baroque opera company performs select operas throughout the…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abilene Ballet Theatre Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wylie Fastpitch Softball Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRACE MUSEUM INC: $256,504 · Arts & CultureGRACE MUSEUM INCCenter for Contemporary Arts: $189,542 · Arts & CultureCenter for Contemporary ArtsNational Center for Childrens Illustrated Literat: $148,314 · Arts & CultureNational Center for Childrens Illustrated LiteratHistoric Paramount Theatre Inc: $36,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric Paramount Theatre IncABILENE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $23,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $17,420 · Arts & CultureAbilene Philharmonic Association: $196,932 · OtherAbilene Philharmonic AssociationWest Central Texas Council of Gover: $62,500 · OtherWest Central Texas Council of GoverHERU COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $54,167 · OtherHERU COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONABILENE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $54,167 · OtherABILENE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCEABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $39,000 · OtherABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYCISCO COLLEGE: $25,000 · OtherCISCO COLLEGE+1 more: $6,000 · OtherABILENE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $20,250 · EducationAbilene Zoological Society: $18,021 · AnimalsWYLIE FASTPITCH SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$670,780Other$437,766Education$20,250Animals$18,021Recreation & Sports$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRACE MUSEUM INC: $256,504 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetAbilene Philharmonic Association: $196,932 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetCenter for Contemporary Arts: $189,542 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetNational Center for Childrens Illustrated Literat: $148,314 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetABILENE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $54,167 over 1y, 61% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Paramount Theatre Inc: $36,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetABILENE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $23,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetABILENE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $20,250 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetAbilene Zoological Society: $18,021 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAbilene Ballet Theatre Inc: $17,420 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetWYLIE FASTPITCH SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 13% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GRACE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Abilene Philharmonic Association ↗
  • Who funds Center for Contemporary Arts ↗
  • Who funds National Center for Childrens Illustrated Literat ↗
  • Who funds ABILENE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Historic Paramount Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds ABILENE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds ABILENE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Abilene Zoological Society ↗
  • Who funds Abilene Ballet Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds WYLIE FASTPITCH SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Dian Graves Owen Foun…The Robison Excelsior…Kickapoo Springs Foun…The Legett FoundationBarber FoundationGreathouse FoundationShelton Family Founda…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of AbileneTX23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Abilene · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · The Robison Excelsior Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · The Legett Foundation · Barber Foundation · Greathouse Foundation · Shelton Family Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Abilene Chamber of Commerce funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abilene Chamber of Commerce. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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