Kansas · Nonprofit
COLBYTHOMAS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
COLBYTHOMAS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,165 to it, the largest being THOMAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($11,165). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $615k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Colbythomas County Chamber of Commerce Inc does
Mission
The colby/thomas county chamber of commerce promotes thomas county kansas and the surrounding area as an excellent place to live, work, shop and visit.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
The pickin on the plains bluegrass festival is a three day event held the third weekend of july at the thomas county kansas fairgrounds. A full slate of local and midwest area bands perform under an air-cooled canopy starting friday evening through sunday. Youth activities, a craft fair and musical workshops are also part of the activities. The festival promotes (a) an appreciation of the free enterprise system, (b) coordinates the efforts of commerce, industry and the professions in maintaining and strenghtening a sound and healthy business climate in the area; (c) sponsorship of aggressive programs of work and stimulates activities that will provide for full development and employment of our human and economic resources; (d) creative business leadership and effective coordination of all interested parties in solving community problems and in initiating constructive community action; (e) creating broad understanding and appreciation of the great opportunities in thomas county and the advantages and assets of our community.
Let the colby/thomas county chamber of commerce do your shopping for you. Chamber gift certificates are a great way to give, and can be used to purchase goods and services at many thomas county businesses. They can be spent for quality merchandise, food and services at retail shops, service providers and restaurants. The gift certicicates promotes (a) an appreciation of the free enterprise system, (b) coordinates the efforts of commerce, industry and the professions in maintaining and strenghtening a sound and healthy business climate in the area; (c) sponsorship of aggressive programs of work and stimulates activities that will provide for full development and employment of our human and economic resources; (d) creative business leadership and effective coordination of all interested parties in solving community problems and in initiating constructive community action; (e) creating broad understanding and appreciation of the great opportunities in thomas county and the advantages and assets of our community withing the area, the state and nation.
The sunflower festival is a community event held downtown colby kansas and fike park in colby kansas. The festival promotes (a) an appreciation of the free enterprise system, (b) coordinates the efforts of commerce, industry and the professions in maintaining and strenghtening a sound and healthy business climate in the area; (c) sponsorship of aggressive programs of work and stimulates activities that will provide for full development and employment of our human and economic resources; (d) creative business leadership and effective coordination of all interested parties in solving community problems and in initiating constructive community action; (e) creating broad understanding and appreciation of the great opportunities in thomas county and the advantages and assets of our community within the area, the state and nation.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 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 2022 to 2023, from $967k to $1.2M (+23%).
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 63% · 2018 56% · 2019 59% · 2020 58% · 2021 64% · 2022 62% · 2024 68% · 2025 62% · 2026 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 10 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.
Board chair
Jenny Hurtt
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COLBYTHOMAS COUNTY 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 COLBYTHOMAS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 COLBYTHOMAS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLBYTHOMAS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: 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 COLBYTHOMAS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC?
- COLBYTHOMAS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,165 to it, the largest being THOMAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($11,165). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLBYTHOMAS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $11,165 in grants to COLBYTHOMAS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of COLBYTHOMAS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC?
- THOMAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,165 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLBYTHOMAS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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