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Midland Chamber of Commerce

The MIDLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE provides resources and services to promote and foster business growth and success for its members and the community.

$231k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$70k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$708k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $221,077, the rows itemized in this filing. The $230,934 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,857 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 $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $134k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF MIDLAND AQUATICS INC$70,490
WEST TEXAS ALL-STAR CLASSIC$45,000
PERMIAN BASIN USSSA$40,000
EXPERIMENTAL SOUNDING ROCKET ASSOCIATION$20,000
AMERICAN GRAPPLING FEDERATION$16,000
BUSH CONVENTION CENTER$12,512
CITY OF MIDLAND - PARKS AND RECREATION$9,075
MIDLAND COLLEGE$8,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BANNER PROMOTIONS: $25k → 22%AMERICAN GRAPPLING FEDERATION: $16k → 9%USTA TEXAS: $8k → 10%MIDLAND HISPANIC CHAMBER: $13k → 12%CITY OF MIDLAND AQUATICS INC: $70k → 14%WEST TEXAS ALL-STAR CLASSIC: $45k → 16%TX HIGHSCHOOL RODEO ASSOCREGION 2: $28k → 23%EXPERIMENTAL SOUNDING ROCKET ASSOCIATION: $20k → 9%AMERICAN GRAPPLING FEDERATION: $15k → 9%BUSH CONVENTION CENTER: $13k → 12%COM AQUATICS: $54k → 14%WEST TEXAS ALL-STAR CLASSIC: $19k → 16%JR CALF ROPING CHAMPIONSHIPS: $19k → 23%MIDLAND ROCKHOUNDS: $33k → 12%CITY OF MIDLAND AQUATICS INC: $44k → 14%URGENT FURY LLC: $8k → 12%CITY OF MIDLAND AQUATICS INC: $30k → 14%PERMIAN BASIN USSSA: $40k → 12%MIDLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE ATHLETICS: $13k → 14%PERMIAN BASIN USSSA: $40k → 12%CITY OF MIDLAND - PARKS AND RECREATION: $9k → 14%WEST TX BLOWOUT: $19k → 12%MIDLAND COLLEGE: $8k → 14%MIDLAND ROCKHOUNDS: $20k → 12%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 49% of Midland Chamber of Commerce’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 96%.

Midland Chamber of Commercelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$530k · 7 repeat orgs$178k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$530k
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+27%

Still filing today

29%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CO
    CITY OF MIDLAND AQUATICS INC
    4× · 2018–2025 · $198k · revenue -6%
  • MU
    MIDLAND UNITED GIRLS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2019–2023 · $83k · revenue +26%
  • PB
    PERMIAN BASIN USSSA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $80k

Funded once

  • TH
    TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $28k · revenue +27%
  • BP
    BANNER PROMOTIONS
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • WT
    WEST TX BLOWOUT
    one grant, 2018 · $19k
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
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PERMIAN BASIN USSSA: $80,000 · OtherPERMIAN BASIN USSSAWEST TEXAS ALL-STAR CLASSIC: $64,321 · OtherWEST TEXAS ALL-STAR CLASSICMIDLAND ROCKHOUNDS: $52,663 · OtherMIDLAND ROCKHOUNDSAMERICAN GRAPPLING FEDERATION: $31,320 · OtherAMERICAN GRAPPLING FEDERATIONBANNER PROMOTIONS: $25,000 · OtherBANNER PROMOTIONSMIDLAND COLLEGE: $21,253 · OtherMIDLAND COLLEGEWEST TX BLOWOUT: $19,420 · OtherJR CALF ROPING CHAMPIONSHIPS: $19,261 · OtherHORSESHOE HOSPITALITY SERVICES: $15,167 · OtherMidland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc: $13,248 · Other+4 more: $37,831 · Other+4 moreCITY OF MIDLAND AQUATICS INC: $198,111 · Recreation & SportsCITY OF MIDLAND AQUATICS INCMIDLAND UNITED GIRLS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $82,792 · Youth DevelopmentMIDLAND UNITE…TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOCIATION: $28,000 · EducationExperimental Sounding Rocket Association: $20,000 · Education
Other$379,484Recreation & Sports$198,111Youth Development$82,792Education$48,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCITY OF MIDLAND AQUATICS INC: $198,111 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMIDLAND UNITED GIRLS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $82,792 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTEXAS HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOCIATION: $28,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetExperimental Sounding Rocket Association: $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMidland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc: $13,248 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMIDLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $12,512 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUSTA TEXAS SECTION: $8,361 over 1y, 0.1% 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 CITY OF MIDLAND AQUATICS INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND UNITED GIRLS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Experimental Sounding Rocket Association ↗
  • Who funds Midland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds USTA TEXAS SECTION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    2report 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 18 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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