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BLUE HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

BLUE HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being LAWRENCE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$35k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$22k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Blue Hill Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

To promote the interest of our business community and to encourage economic development while protecting natural and cultural resources and sustaining the character of the peninsula.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Promote economic development and increase the well-being of the business community on the blue hill peninsula.

    $45,885 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $45,885.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($48k) Expenses 100 ($48k) Net assets -161 ($-21658)2018 Revenue 131 ($63k) Expenses 99 ($48k) Net assets -47 ($-6292)2019 Revenue 105 ($51k) Expenses 103 ($50k) Net assets -41 ($-5463)2020 Revenue 70 ($34k) Expenses 31 ($15k) Net assets 100 ($13k)2021 Revenue 87 ($42k) Expenses 28 ($14k) Net assets 312 ($42k)2022 Revenue 79 ($38k) Expenses 53 ($26k) Net assets 406 ($55k)2023 Revenue 56 ($27k) Expenses 76 ($37k) Net assets 334 ($45k)2024 Revenue 78 ($38k) Expenses 103 ($50k) Net assets 245 ($33k)2025 Revenue 73 ($35k) Expenses 95 ($46k) Net assets 166 ($22k)
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Revenue (73)Expenses (95)Net assets (166)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $13k to $42k (+212%).

$8k
$20k
$23k
$13k
$42k
$55k
$45k
$33k
$22k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of BLUE HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$30
’17
$15k
’18
$829
’19
$19k
’20
$29k
’21
$13k
’22
−$10k
’23
−$12k
’24
−$11k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of BLUE HILL 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.

Where its funders are

100% of BLUE HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Maine out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLUE HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's revenue fell 27% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−30% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

ME

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUE HILL 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 BLUE HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
BLUE HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being LAWRENCE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLUE HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to BLUE HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLUE HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
LAWRENCE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLUE HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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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 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