Kansas · Nonprofit
EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION
EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,683 to it, the largest being THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($175,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $403k
- Net assets
- $648k
What Emporia Area Chamber Foundation does
Mission
To support the efforts of the emporia area chamber of commerce in being proactive in creating an environment for business and community success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Leadership emporia - an educational program designed to nurture and enhance the leadership skills and capacities of individuals from all segments of the community and to better the community.
$691,927 spentof which $683,275 as grants$12,200 earned by the program57% of program spendingIgnite emporia - an aggressive five year strategic initiative designed to grow our own, create jobs, retain and expand current business and industries, ensure the readiness of our workforce, and grow our workforce housing.
$513,002 spent43% of program spendingGeneral support services for emporia chamber of commerce and emporia, ks business community.
$2,108 earned by the programIgnite emporia - an aggressive five year strategic initiative designed to grow our own, create jobs, retain and expand current business and industries, ensure the readiness of our workforce, grow our workforce housing, and to provide childcare to the community.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,204,929.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $43k to $1.1M (+2435%).
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: 2024 79% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Joey Lemay
Chair of the
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $92k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION’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
EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 74% · 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 2023 65% — 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
EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.
Against its field
EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Emporia Area Chamber of Commerce · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION?
- EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,683 to it, the largest being THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($175,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $402,683 in grants to EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION?
- THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing