Indiana · Nonprofit
COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,000 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH RUDDICK NUGENT FOUNDATION ($51,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $578k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce Inc does
Mission
The columbus area chamber of commerce engages its members in the pursuit of excellence and economic growth by fostering an innovative business environment and a world class community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The chamber of commerce provides programs to enhance economic activity in the bartholomew county area by sustaining quality and encouraging growth in agricultural, commercial, industrial & professional concerns.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 $750k to $1.2M (+61%).
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: 2021 15% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Cindy Frey
Executive director
Board chair
Mandy Wyant
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $32k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $406k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Columbus Area Chamber Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of COLUMBUS 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.
How concentrated its funding is
COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 69% — diversifying over time.
“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
100% of COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC's grant income comes from Indiana 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 COLUMBUS 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Columbus Area Chamber Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLUMBUS AREA 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 COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC?
- COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,000 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH RUDDICK NUGENT FOUNDATION ($51,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $61,000 in grants to COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC?
- ELIZABETH RUDDICK NUGENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $51,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBUS 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 Indiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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