· Public charity
Burlington West Burlington Area Chamber of Commerce
The mission of this organization is a membership-based association of businesses, professional leaders and individuals working together to promote economic growth, employment opportunities, government advocacy, excellence in education, and quality of life.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $17,010 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,058 |
| SOUTHEAST SOCCER ACADEMY | $8,199 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,093 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,292 |
| BIKE BURLINGTON | $6,055 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2019–2021 · $86k
- DPDOWNTOWN PARTNERS INC3× · 2017–2022 · $66k · revenue -20%
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2019–2024 · $64k
Funded once
- GGGROW GREATER BURLINGTON INCone grant, 2022 · $47k · revenue -19%
- ASADIDAS SOCCER SHOWCASE EVENTSone grant, 2018 · $15k
- SISOUTHEAST IOWA SWARM INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +53%
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.
5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Burlington West Burlington Area Chamber of Commerce funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burlington West Burlington Area Chamber of Commerce. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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