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DEADWOOD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND VISITORS BUREAU

DEADWOOD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND VISITORS BUREAU (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being SANFORD GROUP RETURN ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.4M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$40k
Net assets
$97k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Deadwood Area Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau does

Mission

The chamber promotes tourism and economic vitality in deadwood by marketing the destination, producing events, providing visitor services, and supporting area businesses and community initiatives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Event and tourism development: produced and supported community events designed to attract visitors, increase overnight stays, and generate economic activity for local businesses.

  2. Destination marketing: promoted deadwood as a year-round visitor destination through marketing campaigns, website management, and public relations activities that support tourism and the local economy.

  3. Visitor services and business support: provided visitor information services and supported area businesses through membership services, committees, partnerships, community collaboration, and advocacy efforts that promote economic vitality in deadwood.

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 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 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($65k)2018 Revenue 107 ($1.3M) Expenses 95 ($1.3M) Net assets 208 ($135k)2019 Revenue 109 ($1.4M) Expenses 105 ($1.4M) Net assets 160 ($104k)2020 Revenue 101 ($1.3M) Expenses 85 ($1.1M) Net assets 367 ($238k)2021 Revenue 110 ($1.4M) Expenses 111 ($1.5M) Net assets 218 ($142k)2022 Revenue 99 ($1.2M) Expenses 105 ($1.4M) Net assets -25 ($-16005)2023 Revenue 117 ($1.5M) Expenses 119 ($1.6M) Net assets -204 ($-132913)2024 Revenue 123 ($1.5M) Expenses 116 ($1.5M) Net assets -213 ($-138610)2025 Revenue 190 ($2.4M) Expenses 161 ($2.1M) Net assets 149 ($97k)
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Revenue (190)Expenses (161)Net assets (149)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $183k to $457k (+150%).

$161k
$190k
$183k
$457k
$474k
$384k
$320k
$326k
$483k
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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: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2019 95% · 2020 90% · 2021 89% · 2022 104% · 2023 95% · 2024 90% · 2025 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. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$77k
’17
$70k
’18
−$31k
’19
$134k
’20
−$97k
’21
−$158k
’22
−$117k
’23
−$6k
’24
$235k
’25
1.9
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed5555556617
Joined·+1+0+0+0+0+1+2+14
No longer listed·10000023
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $20k.

Funder
'21
'22
total
$40k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of DEADWOOD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND VISITORS BUREAU’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 DEADWOOD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND VISITORS BUREAU's grant income comes from South Dakota funders.

SD

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

’21
’22
South Dakota 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds DEADWOOD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND VISITORS BUREAU?
DEADWOOD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND VISITORS BUREAU (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being SANFORD GROUP RETURN ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DEADWOOD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND VISITORS BUREAU have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $40,000 in grants to DEADWOOD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND VISITORS BUREAU, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DEADWOOD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND VISITORS BUREAU?
SANFORD GROUP RETURN is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DEADWOOD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND VISITORS BUREAU find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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