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BUENA VISTA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

BUENA VISTA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$89k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$-31501
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Buena Vista Area Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

To provide members and other local businesses economic development opportunities within chaffee county and buena vista, colorado.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Conducts events such as gold rush days and the atv rally that promotes tourism and bring visitors to the area and stimulate the local economy.

  2. Operate the visitors center and website for the town of buena vista and northern chaffee county, colorado. Publish business directory.

  3. Conduct trade shows and seminars for the businesses and general population in the area.

  4. Provide businesses and individuals that are looking to relocate information about the positive attributes of buena vista and the surrounding area.

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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 ($198k) Expenses 100 ($181k) Net assets 100 ($13k)2018 Revenue 100 ($197k) Expenses 91 ($165k) Net assets 357 ($45k)2019 Revenue 122 ($242k) Expenses 153 ($277k) Net assets 78 ($10k)2020 Revenue 98 ($195k) Expenses 111 ($202k) Net assets 22 ($3k)2021 Revenue 106 ($209k) Expenses 97 ($176k) Net assets 281 ($35k)2022 Revenue 131 ($260k) Expenses 124 ($225k) Net assets 555 ($70k)2023 Revenue 123 ($243k) Expenses 155 ($282k) Net assets 244 ($31k)2024 Revenue 45 ($89k) Expenses 71 ($129k) Net assets -70 ($-8722)2025 Revenue 45 ($89k) Expenses 61 ($111k) Net assets -251 ($-31501)
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Revenue (45)Expenses (61)Net assets (-251)

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 $24k to $198k (+734%).

$55k
$54k
$10k
$24k
$198k
$217k
$179k
$137k
$112k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2019 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 13% · 2023 14% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
’17
$32k
’18
−$35k
’19
−$7k
’20
$33k
’21
$34k
’22
−$39k
’23
−$39k
’24
−$23k
’25
12
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed8889556
Joined·+3+6+6+3+0+6
No longer listed·365705
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 18%Fundraising 4%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

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Questions and answers

Who funds BUENA VISTA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
BUENA VISTA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BUENA VISTA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to BUENA VISTA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Who is the largest funder of BUENA VISTA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
US Chamber of Commerce Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUENA VISTA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 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