Kansas · Nonprofit
GREAT BEND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
GREAT BEND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being Golden Belt Community Foundation ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $589k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $114k
What Great Bend Chamber of Commerce does
Mission
The Great Bend Chamber of Commerce will promote and improve the business climate in the city of great bend through its services and partnerships that encourage growth and assist existing and new businesses in reaching their business goals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Economic development: great bend is a vibrant community of more than 15,000 people located in the heart of america; near the geographical center of kansas. The central location of the city allows for short travel to anywhere in the state, including wichita and kansas city. Denver is also just a mere six hours drive away. Incentives available through the city of great bend, barton county, and the state of kansas make relocation or expansion in the community competitive. Companies in great bend enjoy an adaptable and hard working regional labor pool of close to 66,000. Through partnerships with barton county community college and the state of kansas, the community has the ability to rapidly train and retain the existing workforce to meet the needs of business.
Barton county young professionals: the barton county young professionals group is tageted for individuals between the ages of 21 and 40 who live and/or work in the barton county area. The program has three main goals: 1) fostering business and social networking, 2) providing opportunities to give back to the community, and 3) developing young leaders in today's workforce. Members enjoy a variety of monthly events, which rotate between sponsored mixers, leadership develpment luncheons, and social events. In addition to numerous networking opportunities, members also enjoy exclusive perks, including half-price rental of chamber meeting rooms, professional leadership training, discounts and freebies from local businesses, and more.
Great bend farm & ranch expo: the great bend farm & ranch expo, held annually during the second week of april, is one of the largest and most well-organized expositions of its kind in the midwest. Hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of spectators flock to great bend each year for the three-day show.
Kids ag day: the chamber's agri-business committee works diligently to provide educational opportunitites to all fourth grade students in barton county through an annual event known as kids ag day, held each september. The agri-business committee also serves aas a resource to research and promote new markets for agricultural products. Other programs: a variety of community service programs that benefit our current and future economic growth and opportunities.
The 4 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $250k to $110k (−56%).
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 33% · 2018 32% · 2019 36% · 2020 2% · 2021 11% · 2024 24% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Mike Johnson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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: $98k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Great Bend Chamber Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GREAT BEND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE raised.
From the IRS filings of GREAT BEND 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.
Where its funders are
100% of GREAT BEND 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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 GREAT BEND 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT BEND 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 GREAT BEND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- GREAT BEND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being Golden Belt Community Foundation ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREAT BEND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to GREAT BEND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT BEND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- Golden Belt Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT BEND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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