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Midland Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Midland Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

The midland chamber of commerce foundation provides vision and leadership to strengthen and enhance the quality of life and economic development for businesses and individuals in the community.

$163k
Granted FY2017
11
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k3 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $137k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAYNE NEEDHAM ULTIMATE CALF ROPING$25,000
323 MINISTRIES$25,000
TENNIS ASSO OF MIDLAND$16,998
SILVERFIRE LLC$15,187
Individual grant recipient$15,000
PROFESSIONAL ARMED FORCES RODEO AS$15,000
JR CALF ROPING CHAMPIONSHIP$15,000
MHS GOLF BOOSTERS$10,000
ADDITIONAL GRANTS LESS THAN 5000$8,902
MHS BOYS SOCCER BOOSTER CLUB$8,754
WEST TEXAS BMX$7,925
02The need
02

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 (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WAYNE NEEDHAM ULTIMATE CALF ROPING: $25k → 9%MHS GOLF BOOSTERS: $10k → 12%JR CALF ROPING CHAMPIONSHIP: $15k → 13%323 MINISTRIES: $25k → 14%SILVERFIRE LLC: $15k → 16%JOHN KEITH HOYLE: $15k → 19%ADDITIONAL GRANTS LESS THAN 5000: $9k → 12%MHS BOYS SOCCER BOOSTER CLUB: $9k → 14%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 field
03the grantee network

2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2021.

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 2021, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 11 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/2
Grantees still filing
0/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAYNE NEEDHAM ULTIMATE CALF ROPING: $25,000 · OtherWAYNE NEEDHAM ULTIMATE CALF ROPING3 23 MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · Other3 23 MINISTRIES INCTENNIS ASSOCIATION OF MIDLAND: $16,998 · OtherTENNIS ASSOCIATION OF MIDLANDSILVERFIRE LLC: $15,187 · OtherSILVERFIRE LLCJR CALF ROPING CHAMPIONSHIPS: $15,000 · OtherJR CALF ROPING CHAMPIONSHIPSIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPROFESSIONAL ARMED FORCES RODEO AS: $15,000 · OtherPROFESSIONAL ARMED FORCES RODEO ASMHS GOLF BOOSTERS: $10,000 · OtherMHS GOLF BOOSTERSADDITIONAL GRANTS LESS THAN 5000: $8,902 · OtherADDITIONAL GRANTS LESS THAN 5000MHS BOYS SOCCER BOOSTER CLUB: $8,754 · OtherMHS BOYS SOCCER BOOSTER CLUBWEST TEXAS BMX INC: $7,925 · Other
Other$162,766

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTENNIS ASSOCIATION OF MIDLAND: $16,998 over 1y, 57% 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 3 23 MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds TENNIS ASSOCIATION OF MIDLAND ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2021
’21
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
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY21–21
    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 11 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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