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BOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC

BOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being SERVICE ONE CREDIT UNION INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.8M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$5.3M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce Inc does

Mission

The bowling green area chamber of commerce focuses its work on four strategic areas to improve the business climate and overall quality of life in south central kentucky: regional economic development, existing business development, serving partnership needs, and organizational development.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The chamber is the driving force for economic development in south central kentucky and is dedicated to promoting the entire region, utilizing a regional economic development marketing plan to aid in the attraction of business and industry.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.3M) Net assets 100 ($4.2M)2018 Revenue 99 ($2.5M) Expenses 101 ($2.3M) Net assets 104 ($4.4M)2019 Revenue 96 ($2.4M) Expenses 104 ($2.4M) Net assets 105 ($4.4M)2020 Revenue 90 ($2.3M) Expenses 89 ($2.0M) Net assets 111 ($4.7M)2021 Revenue 101 ($2.6M) Expenses 91 ($2.1M) Net assets 121 ($5.1M)2022 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.3M) Net assets 127 ($5.4M)2023 Revenue 109 ($2.8M) Expenses 119 ($2.8M) Net assets 128 ($5.4M)2024 Revenue 111 ($2.8M) Expenses 127 ($2.9M) Net assets 125 ($5.3M)
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Revenue (111)Expenses (127)Net assets (125)

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 $5.2M to $5.8M (+10%).

$4.8M
$5.1M
$5.1M
$5.2M
$5.8M
$6.1M
$6.1M
$6.1M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 4% · 2021 10% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$242k
’17
$177k
’18
$25k
’19
$254k
’20
$458k
’21
$248k
’22
$19k
’23
−$114k
’24
15
months of
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

Ron Bunch

President & CEO

Board chair

Todd Matthews

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2828272728272626
Joined·+2+4+0+5+7+5+5
No longer listed·2504865
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of BOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC’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 BOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

KY

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

Organizations like BOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC

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 Kentucky

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

26
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Bowling Green Area Chamber Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Bowling Green Area Economic Development Authority Inc · exempt
  • Inter-Modal Transportation Authority Inc · exempt
  • The Training Consortium of South Central Kentucky Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC?
BOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being SERVICE ONE CREDIT UNION INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,500 in grants to BOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC.
Who is the largest funder of BOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC?
SERVICE ONE CREDIT UNION 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 BOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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