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Escondido Chamber of Commerce

Escondido Chamber of Commerce (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,150 to it, the largest being SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$249k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$39k
Net assets
$-307137
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Escondido Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

The Chamber is the voice for businesses in Escondido providing leadership and guidance for the local small business community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Chamber programs are designed to bring information to the business community as well as to the general public. The Chamber provides networking and educational opportunities for its members.

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990.

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 ($310k) Expenses 100 ($284k) Net assets 100 ($144k)2018 Revenue 96 ($299k) Expenses 91 ($259k) Net assets 128 ($184k)2019 Revenue 84 ($259k) Expenses 106 ($299k) Net assets 99 ($143k)2020 Revenue 60 ($187k) Expenses 107 ($302k) Net assets 19 ($28k)2021 Revenue 69 ($215k) Expenses 102 ($290k) Net assets -33 ($-47356)2022 Revenue 114 ($355k) Expenses 170 ($482k) Net assets -90 ($-130264)2023 Revenue 108 ($336k) Expenses 187 ($529k) Net assets -224 ($-323238)2024 Revenue 80 ($249k) Expenses 82 ($233k) Net assets -213 ($-307137)
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Revenue (80)Expenses (82)Net assets (-213)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $684k to $593k (−13%).

$648k
$688k
$625k
$684k
$593k
$569k
$481k
$510k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2018 2% · 2020 8% · 2021 23% · 2022 35% · 2023 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’17
$40k
’18
−$40k
’19
−$116k
’20
−$75k
’21
−$127k
’22
−$193k
’23
$16k
’24
2.2
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed2222212224221416
Joined·+8+3+12+10+4+5+4
No longer listed·841186132
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $700 → $25k.

From the IRS filings of Escondido Chamber of Commerce’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

Escondido Chamber of Commerce leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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

89% 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 Escondido Chamber of Commerce.

64%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 2023 51% — 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 Escondido Chamber of Commerce's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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

’21
’22
’23
California 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

Organizations like Escondido Chamber of Commerce

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

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 Escondido Chamber of Commerce?
Escondido Chamber of Commerce (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,150 to it, the largest being SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Escondido Chamber of Commerce have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $39,150 in grants to Escondido Chamber of Commerce, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Escondido Chamber of Commerce?
SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Escondido Chamber of Commerce find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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