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GREATER NORWICH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

GREATER NORWICH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,100 to it, the largest being The William W Backus Hospital ($12,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$269k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$97k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Greater Norwich Area Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

To support, provide, and enhance the general welfare and prosperity of the greater norwich area.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To support, provide, and enhance the general welfare and prosperity of the greater norwich area.

    $278,554 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $278,554.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($275k) Expenses 100 ($185k) Net assets 100 ($119k)2022 Revenue 76 ($208k) Expenses 112 ($206k) Net assets 102 ($121k)2023 Revenue 88 ($242k) Expenses 139 ($257k) Net assets 89 ($106k)2024 Revenue 87 ($240k) Expenses 130 ($239k) Net assets 90 ($107k)2025 Revenue 98 ($269k) Expenses 151 ($279k) Net assets 81 ($97k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (98)Expenses (151)Net assets (81)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $219k to $193k (−12%).

$214k
$233k
$219k
$193k
$193k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

66% of GREATER NORWICH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$90k
’21
$2k
’22
−$15k
’23
$996
’24
−$10k
’25
6.3
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.

Board chair

Pamela Knder

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed4341412726
Joined·+1+11+6+1
No longer listed·311202
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of GREATER NORWICH 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.

Where its funders are

100% of GREATER NORWICH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

CT

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

Against its field

GREATER NORWICH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12k to it.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve6.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding GREATER NORWICH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.

State$2k
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Top programs
  • Membership Dues$2k
  • sponsorship$100

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like GREATER NORWICH 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 Connecticut

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

26
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

  • Greater Norwich Area Business Industry Foundation Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREATER NORWICH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
GREATER NORWICH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,100 to it, the largest being The William W Backus Hospital ($12,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREATER NORWICH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,100 in grants to GREATER NORWICH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREATER NORWICH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
The William W Backus Hospital is the largest funder on record, with $12,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREATER NORWICH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2021–2025), 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