Michigan · Nonprofit
Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce
Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,000 to it, the largest being GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $125k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce does
Mission
Creating opportunities for west michigan and members to connect, grow and succeed. To be the leading business membership organization in west michigan by providing outstanding membersip, advocacy, diversity and community programming that promotes inclusion, prosperity and growth.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Programs
Public Policy and Government Affairs - Identify issues of concern and work with elected officials to promote policies and programs to stimulate the areas economic growth and create job opportunities. Our top priorities this year were housing and homelessness, public safety, roads and infrastructure, and paid sick leave/minimum wage adoption, and talent retention and attraction.
Member Services - Strengthen the Chambers membership and improve services to members with special emphasis on member recruitment, retention and activation through continued communication with members. Discount programs for members included office supplies, workers comp insurance, tuition discounts, fuel, and internet service. Publication of our bi-monthly e-newsletter highlights members and offers advertising opportunities. We welcomed 570 new members and retained 83% of our current members.
Programs and Events - Provide opportunities for business networking through a variety of member events. While we continue to provide quality meaningful events, we are focusing more on impactful outcomes for businesses through thoughtful connections, quality interactions, and consultations.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.8M to $9.8M (+105%).
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: 2020 15% · 2021 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Rick Baker
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $147k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Trinity Health - Michigan). These are real filings, and they are not money Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce raised.
From the IRS filings of Grand Rapids Area 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
Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
92% 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 Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 67% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
60% of Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $50k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k 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.
Against its field
Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce has grown faster than half of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Grand Rapids Area 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation · exempt
- Silent Observer · exempt
- Family Business Alliance · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce: 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 Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce?
- Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,000 to it, the largest being GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $125,000 in grants to Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce?
- GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing