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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 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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 55 grants below total $1,881,110, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,230,287 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,349,177 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 · 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
CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES$10,000
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$10,000
EASY DAY SPORTS LLC$10,000
OHIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
THE RIGHT AMOUNT LLC$10,000
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:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
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
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 53% of US Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

US Chamber of Commerce Foundationlessmore 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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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
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

  • 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%
  • KC
    Kentucky Chamber Foundation Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +258%

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%
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
The Chamber of Commerce Inc

The chamber of commerce exercises a leadership role in their geographic region by working with its members to build and support the regional economy, as well as supporting economic growth and interest of the business community.

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2
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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3
Nebraska Chamber of Commerce & Industry

The nebraska chamber of commerce & industry (the chamber) is a statewide business organization established to maintain and improve the economic progress and business climate of the state of nebraska. the chamber was organized to promote,…

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4
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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5
Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce

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

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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
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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8
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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9
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

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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
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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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chamber of Commerce of Frederick County Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

240 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.

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

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
236/240
Grantees still filing
144/240
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ImprovementCHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER SARASOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementSAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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 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 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 budgetKentucky Chamber Foundation Inc: $140,000 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetSOME INC: $140,000 over 7y, 0.1% 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 budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $55,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVES FUND: $55,000 over 1y, 61% 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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSKILLPOINTE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetGreater Houston Partnership Foundation: $45,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICA SUCCEEDS: $45,000 over 1y, 2.8% 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 budgetSAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetNEW VISION SANTA ROSA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $25,000 over 2y, 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.

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.

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

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 US Chamber of Commerce Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from US Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 200 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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