Missouri · Nonprofit
Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City
Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $44,312 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($44,312). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $364k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $361k
What Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City does
Mission
Promote Black-owned Kansas City businesses
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Stronger Together Kansas City Pilot began as an initiative offering early assistance to small businesses providing legal and financial support. It has been expanded to include a mentoring program, business training, and marketing services. The program now includes nine business participants.
$51,713 spent29% of program spendingTurner Construction Company Partnership which includes a broad range of business support for members including technical assistance, joint venture, and subcontract opportunities on various projects within the region. More than twenty members have been awarded major contracts on the EV Battery, META, and Office at Overlook projects as a result of the partnership.
$28,442 spent16% of program spendingPartnership with City of Kansas City, Missouri CREO Department. A new program designed to equip small businesses with the knowledge, mentorship and networks needed to secure contracts, access to capital and certifications, and scale with resilience. Specifically designed to build capacity of 25-30 firms a year and increase the number of certified SLBE firms by 20% in three years.
$24,563 spent14% of program spendingGeneral Operations
$76,329 spent42% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $181,047.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $178k to $411k (+131%).
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.
100% of Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Cecilia Belser-Patton
Executive Director
Board chair
Kelvin W Perry
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City: 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 Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City?
- Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $44,312 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($44,312). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $44,312 in grants to Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City.
- Who is the largest funder of Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $44,312 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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