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US Chamber of Commerce Foundation

The US Chamber of Commerce Foundation harnesses the power of business to create solutions for the good of America and the world.

$9.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
28
States reached
$536k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$20MEducation$1.8MEmployment$1.5MPublic Benefit$716kInternational$366kArts & Culture$364kHuman Services$290kHealth$178kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 55 grants below total $1,881,110 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,230,287 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,349,177 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $236k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $603k
  • $250k+2 grants · $852k
$6,750
Median grant
28
States reached
$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KHAN ACADEMY INC$535,856
PRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT$316,000
Chamber of Commerce of the USA$219,379
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$200,000
ETHICS RESOURCE CENTER INC$184,000
NORTH CAROLINA CHAMBER FOUNDATION$35,000
URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$30,000
SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT$20,000
GREATER PHOENIX CHAMBER FOUNDATION$15,000
YOUR PERSONAL GARDENER LLC$10,000
EASY DAY SPORTS LLC$10,000
OHIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$10,000
THE RIGHT AMOUNT LLC$10,000
NOR-ELLA LLC$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DELIVERFUND: $10k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $25k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 6%Harlem Children's Zone: $60k → 17%Miriam's Kitchen: $10k → 14%Southeast Michigan Community Alliance: $40k → 21%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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ME
WA
ID
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
IA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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 earmarks the money.

About 53% of US Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

US Chamber of Commerce Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$21M · 32 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
122

Total granted

$21M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+29%

Still filing today

84%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePublic BenefitInternationalHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • US
    U S Black Chamber of Commerce EDC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $344k · revenue +11%
  • THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $238k · revenue +5%
  • SI
    SOME INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $290k · revenue +0%
  • BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INCgraduated
    2× · 2022–2023 · $125k · revenue +35%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CRYPTOLOGIC FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -84%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.

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2
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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3
Lubbock Chamber of Commerce

The lubbock chamber of commerce provides promotion of business and community growth and development as well as preserving the competitive business enterprise system in the lubbock and surrounding area.

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4
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.

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5
The Jefferson Chamber of Commerce

To work for the advancement of the business community, to enhance the economic, civic and cultural environment, and to improve the quality of life in jefferson parish, louisiana.

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6
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…

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7
Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce

An association providing community leadership and business advocacy sustaining economic vitality.

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8
Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to promote and support the development of strong businesses and a vibrant economy in the northern kentucky region, through leadership and advocacy, resulting in a better quality of life for all.

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9
Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce

To promote economic growth in the city of danville, va and pittsylvania county area.

Community Improvement
10
Greater Yakima Chamber of Commerce

We exist to be an advocate for our members and our business community to strengthen the development of our economy.

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11
Chamber of Commerce of Columbia Cou

To be the leading voice of business in coumbia county providing advocacy, promotion, and benefit solutions to its members.

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12
Jacksonville Area Chamber of Commerce

To improve the business climate, promote economic development, and enhance the quality of life in the jacksonville area. the jacksonville area chamber of commerce encourages businesses by building relationships to create a vibrant tomorrow.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Chamber Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hands On Dc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Domestic Violence ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportCancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Affordable Housing Developm…Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr15%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr16%14%35–55yr15%27%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%2/317
the rest of the field
13%
1,600/12,684

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
236/240
Grantees still filing
144/240
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Chamber of Commerce of the USA — $18,198,023 · OtherChamber of Commerce of the USA+137 more — $4,007,160 · Other+137 moreKHAN ACADEMY INC — $535,856 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $525,000 · EducationU S Black Chamber of Commerce EDC — $344,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $120,000 · EducationMAINE STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $95,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · Education+18 more — $347,750 · EducationKentucky Chamber Foundation Inc — $140,000 · Community ImprovementWAKE FOREST CHAMBER FOUNDATION FOR COMMON PROGRESS — $95,000 · Community ImprovementGreater Houston Partnership Foundation — $45,000 · Community ImprovementSAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER SARASOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementCHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Community Improvement+15 more — $108,875 · Community ImprovementETHICS RESOURCE CENTER INC — $184,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CRYPTOLOGIC FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICA SUCCEEDS — $45,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $20,625 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $30,000 · Arts & CulturePRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT — $316,000 · InternationalMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER — $25,000 · InternationalTHE ASIA FOUNDATION — $20,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC — $15,000 · International+1 more — $10,000 · InternationalTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $237,500 · EmploymentTEMPE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $95,000 · EmploymentPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC — $16,000 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC — $289,737 · Recreation & Sports
Other$22,205,183Education$2,042,606Community Improvement$508,875Arts & Culture$404,625International$386,000Employment$348,500Recreation & Sports$289,737

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChamber of Commerce of the USA — $18,198,023 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $535,856 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $525,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNational Black Chamber of Commerce Inc — $344,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetU S Black Chamber of Commerce EDC — $344,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetPRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT — $316,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC — $289,737 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $237,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetETHICS RESOURCE CENTER INC — $184,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSOME INC — $140,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKentucky Chamber Foundation Inc — $140,000 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $110,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL CRYPTOLOGIC FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBLACKSTONE VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $95,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetLANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY — $95,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFLORIDA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $70,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER PHOENIX CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVES FUND — $55,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $55,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $52,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSKILLPOINTE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA SUCCEEDS — $45,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGreater Houston Partnership Foundation — $45,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetSAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSOUTHEAST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER SARASOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational 4-H Council — $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK STATE INC — $26,750 over 3y, 12% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW VISION SANTA ROSA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gates FoundationNAACP Empowerment Pro…Carnegie Corporation …Daniels FundThe United Way of Cen…WK Kellogg FoundationThe William & Flora H…Greater Washington Co…Tides FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Silicon Valley Commun…The Ayco Charitable F…
Gates FoundationWA11.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Daniels Fund · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization US Chamber of Commerce Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Goodwill Industries International Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Forest Grovecornelius Chamber of Commerce — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 200 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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