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FORT WORTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

FORT WORTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $425,000 to it, the largest being TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ($420,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.8M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$425k
Net assets
$2.7M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

To act as the voice of business, articulating a business perspective and advocating policies supported by the fort worth general business community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Activities in connection with the promotion of the city of fort worth. Facilitation of the interchange of business ideas & other efforts intended to gather business information, which will lead to and develop a system of commercial contacts.

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 ($4.3M) Expenses 100 ($4.1M) Net assets -156 ($-61353)2018 Revenue 124 ($5.3M) Expenses 122 ($5.0M) Net assets 100 ($39k)2019 Revenue 116 ($5.0M) Expenses 118 ($4.9M) Net assets 294 ($115k)2020 Revenue 105 ($4.5M) Expenses 93 ($3.8M) Net assets 1943 ($764k)2021 Revenue 98 ($4.2M) Expenses 84 ($3.5M) Net assets 3780 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 124 ($5.3M) Expenses 111 ($4.6M) Net assets 5590 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 115 ($4.9M) Expenses 110 ($4.5M) Net assets 6618 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 89 ($3.8M) Expenses 89 ($3.7M) Net assets 6906 ($2.7M)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (89)Net assets (6906)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.9M to $6.4M (+62%).

$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$2.4M
$3.9M
$6.4M
$5.7M
$5.8M
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$146k
’17
$280k
’18
$76k
’19
$648k
’20
$722k
’21
$711k
’22
$404k
’23
$113k
’24
5.4
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.

Chief executive

Steve Montgomery

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed7073655779869096
Joined·+19+19+14+36+27+30+26
No longer listed·16272214202620
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $100k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
2
1
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $100k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Texas Health Resources). These are real filings, and they are not money FORT WORTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE raised.

From the IRS filings of FORT WORTH 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

FORT WORTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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

99% 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 FORT WORTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 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 FORT WORTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’23
Texas 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 FORT WORTH 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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

93
board members
99%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Fort Worth Chamber Development Foundation · exempt
  • Fort Worth Chamber Foundation · exempt
  • Fort Worth Economic Development Partnership · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FORT WORTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
FORT WORTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $425,000 to it, the largest being TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ($420,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FORT WORTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $425,000 in grants to FORT WORTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FORT WORTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $420,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORT WORTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 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