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BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,000 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$864k
Revenue FY2025
3
Funders on record
$285k
Grants received
$313k
Net assets
1/3 repeat funders

Against its field

BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE has grown faster than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($492k) Expenses 100 ($437k) Net assets 100 ($339k)2022 Revenue 125 ($616k) Expenses 119 ($519k) Net assets 136 ($460k)2023 Revenue 114 ($559k) Expenses 145 ($634k) Net assets 111 ($376k)2024 Revenue 137 ($675k) Expenses 170 ($745k) Net assets 90 ($306k)2025 Revenue 176 ($864k) Expenses 196 ($857k) Net assets 92 ($313k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (176)Expenses (196)Net assets (92)Peer revenue range

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 22% · 2022 9% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$54k
21
$97k
22
$76k
23
$70k
24
$7k
25
1.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of BOONE AREA 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

BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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

88%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

100% of BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 9%Fundraising 3%

Governance

26
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Boone Area Sports Commission Inc · exempt
  • Boone Area Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Commission Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOONE AREA 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 BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,000 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $285,000 in grants to BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
THE DUKE ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOONE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing