Texas · Nonprofit
ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,000 to it, the largest being YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Abilene Chamber of Commerce does
Mission
The mission of Abilene Chamber of Commerce is to promote the economy and quality of life in abilene, texas by providing services to local businesses, educational opportunities, promoting abilene as a travel destination, and promoting cultural activities and organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Convention and visitors sales and services-programs which contract with associations to bring conventions to abilene and which provide information about the community through brochures and various advertising media to promote tourism. The programs' goals include generating overnight stays in abilene, thereby contributing to the overall economy and quality of life.
$1,634,714 spent37% of program spendingCultural affairs - programs which encourage participation in the arts by making grants to various arts organizations, sponsoring performing arts series, sponsoring an outdoor sculpture project, taking performing artists into the local schools and sponsoring a children's art and literacy festival.
$2,066,803 spentof which $153,184 as grants$122,290 earned by the program47% of program spendingMilitary affairs-a program to promote goodwill between the city and personnel at dyess air force base. The program sponsors an annual barbecue for active duty military personnel and their families and department of war employees and their families. The program also seeks to retain and expand the mission of the base, thereby creating local jobs and a stable economy.
$682,584 spent$92,223 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,384,101.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.7M to $4.9M (+33%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 7% · 2023 5% · 2024 1% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Kelsi Mangrem
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $3k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.8M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Abilene Arts Alliance). These are real filings, and they are not money ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE raised.
From the IRS filings of ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 77% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $823k on record.
- Small Business Administration$823k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Abilene Chamber of Commerce Foundat · exempt
- Abilene Industrial Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,000 to it, the largest being YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $9,000 in grants to ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- YOUNG AUDIENCES INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABILENE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing