North Carolina · Nonprofit
CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,717 to it, the largest being REX HOSPITAL INC ($57,082). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Cary Chamber of Commerce does
Mission
The Cary Chamber of Commerce promotes economic growth through actively engaging existing and future businesses and supporting civic activities that contribute to the quality of life in cary.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Cary Chamber of Commerce promotes cary locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
The chamber has approximately 1,175 members who can participate in the chamber's major events and programs. The chamber serves as the voice of business in the cary community.
Staffing and maintaining a single-purpose economic development organization to implement and maintain a robust economic development action plan for cary. This organization serves as the business recruitment, retention, and expansion organization for cary.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
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 $1.4M to $1.7M (+19%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 28% · 2018 25% · 2019 34% · 2020 38% · 2021 54% · 2022 35% · 2023 31% · 2024 32% · 2025 25%. 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.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $26k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of CARY 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
CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
87% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
91% of CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARY 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 CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,717 to it, the largest being REX HOSPITAL INC ($57,082). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $65,717 in grants to CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- REX HOSPITAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $57,082 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARY 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.
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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 3 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