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GREAT FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

GREAT FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$447k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$278k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Great Falls Area Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

The mission of the Great Falls Area Chamber of Commerce is to drive business success, connect leaders, cultivate partnerships, and shape community solutions to build a thriving future for great falls.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The chamber advances economic growth in the great falls area through business advocacy at the local, state, and federal levels, networking opportunities and community events for member businesses, and leadership and professional development programs.

The program described on its FY2024 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 ($608k) Expenses 100 ($642k) Net assets 100 ($273k)2018 Revenue 102 ($621k) Expenses 90 ($575k) Net assets 117 ($318k)2019 Revenue 83 ($504k) Expenses 73 ($467k) Net assets 130 ($355k)2020 Revenue 76 ($463k) Expenses 65 ($419k) Net assets 146 ($399k)2021 Revenue 87 ($531k) Expenses 66 ($420k) Net assets 187 ($510k)2022 Revenue 90 ($548k) Expenses 80 ($511k) Net assets 201 ($548k)2023 Revenue 101 ($615k) Expenses 100 ($640k) Net assets 192 ($523k)2024 Revenue 72 ($439k) Expenses 54 ($347k) Net assets 226 ($616k)2025 Revenue 73 ($447k) Expenses 87 ($556k) Net assets 102 ($278k)
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Revenue (73)Expenses (87)Net assets (102)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $641k to $296k (−54%).

$293k
$338k
$365k
$416k
$527k
$604k
$545k
$641k
$296k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$34k
’17
$45k
’18
$37k
’19
$44k
’20
$111k
’21
$38k
’22
−$24k
’23
$92k
’24
−$109k
’25
6.1
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

Ed Brown

President/CEO

Board chair

Lynda Morin

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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

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Listed191826252525262625
Joined·+6+11+4+6+9+4+4+9
No longer listed·735693410
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

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

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Great Falls Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREAT FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
GREAT FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREAT FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to GREAT FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Who is the largest funder of GREAT FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
US Chamber of Commerce Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREAT FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 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