Kansas · Nonprofit
EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU
EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,073 to it, the largest being Emporia Community Foundation ($103,423). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $865k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $220k
- Net assets
- $495k
What Emporia Area Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau does
Mission
To be proactive in creating an environment for business and community success
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Program services extended to carry out chamber of commerce funtions by providing assistance to business community promotion of the city of emporia and service various community inquiries and programs for members
$786,054 spent$241,029 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $786,054.
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 2019 to 2020, from $788k to $1.1M (+40%).
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 53% · 2018 54% · 2019 52% · 2020 36% · 2021 46% · 2022 40% · 2023 49% · 2024 72%. 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 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
Christian Keisler
Interim CEO
Board chair
Lisa Kirmer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $12k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 OF COMMERCE & 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.
How concentrated its funding is
EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 82% · 2020 73% · 2021 72% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103k 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 EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Emporia Area Chamber Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU: 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 EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU?
- EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,073 to it, the largest being Emporia Community Foundation ($103,423). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $220,073 in grants to EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU?
- Emporia Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $103,423 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU 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.
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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 3 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