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CHARLESTON METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

CHARLESTON METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,000 to it, the largest being ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.6M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$105k
Net assets
$446k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

To initiate, advocate and empower our region to advance a prosperous business environment.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To initiate, advocate and empower our region to advance a prosperous business environment.

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 ($4.9M) Expenses 100 ($4.8M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 98 ($4.8M) Expenses 101 ($4.9M) Net assets 93 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 87 ($4.3M) Expenses 101 ($4.8M) Net assets 56 ($887k)2020 Revenue 75 ($3.7M) Expenses 71 ($3.4M) Net assets 76 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 87 ($4.3M) Expenses 83 ($4.0M) Net assets 44 ($700k)2022 Revenue 83 ($4.1M) Expenses 86 ($4.2M) Net assets 31 ($489k)2023 Revenue 95 ($4.7M) Expenses 95 ($4.6M) Net assets 41 ($653k)2024 Revenue 74 ($3.6M) Expenses 81 ($3.9M) Net assets 28 ($446k)
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Revenue (74)Expenses (81)Net assets (28)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.8M to $6.5M (+137%).

$2.0M
$2.1M
$1.5M
$2.4M
$2.8M
$6.5M
$6.3M
$5.8M
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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: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$101k
’17
−$44k
’18
−$551k
’19
$258k
’20
$280k
’21
−$73k
’22
$102k
’23
−$268k
’24
0.9
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

Bryan Derreberry

President & CEO

Board chair

Matt Brewer

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed7075717570776768
Joined·+23+16+27+16+28+24+3
No longer listed·1820232121342
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $20k.

Funder
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'18
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
3
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $244k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Roper St Francis Healthcare). These are real filings, and they are not money CHARLESTON METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE raised.

From the IRS filings of CHARLESTON METRO 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

CHARLESTON METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84% 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 CHARLESTON METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

76%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2022 47% · 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

78% of CHARLESTON METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

MI
MO
SC

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

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’18
’22
’23
South Carolina 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

Organizations like CHARLESTON METRO 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 South Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

62
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 1 related entity

  • Charleston Chamber Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHARLESTON METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
CHARLESTON METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,000 to it, the largest being ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHARLESTON METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $105,000 in grants to CHARLESTON METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHARLESTON METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHARLESTON METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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