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JAMESTOWN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

JAMESTOWN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (North Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,750 to it, the largest being SANFORD GROUP RETURN ($5,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$663k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$343k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

To promote civic, economic, & social growth

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Various committee activities for civic, economic & social growth. Our largest/most impactful programs or events include the buffalo days community celebration, loyal to local holiday shopping passport program, community award programs, and professional development trainings and workshops.

    $55,446 spent$48,345 earned by the program
    27% of program spending
  2. Tourism support activities

    $147,170 spent$161,358 earned by the program
    73% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $202,616.

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 ($400k) Expenses 100 ($376k) Net assets 100 ($244k)2018 Revenue 109 ($437k) Expenses 118 ($442k) Net assets 98 ($238k)2019 Revenue 105 ($420k) Expenses 101 ($378k) Net assets 115 ($281k)2020 Revenue 116 ($462k) Expenses 123 ($463k) Net assets 104 ($253k)2021 Revenue 117 ($466k) Expenses 111 ($418k) Net assets 123 ($301k)2022 Revenue 106 ($425k) Expenses 119 ($445k) Net assets 115 ($280k)2023 Revenue 152 ($606k) Expenses 154 ($580k) Net assets 126 ($306k)2024 Revenue 166 ($663k) Expenses 166 ($624k) Net assets 141 ($343k)
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Revenue (166)Expenses (166)Net assets (141)

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 $442k to $385k (−13%).

$356k
$383k
$399k
$392k
$442k
$385k
$435k
$477k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$24k
’17
−$5k
’18
$42k
’19
−$2k
’20
$48k
’21
−$20k
’22
$26k
’23
$39k
’24
7.8
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

Emily Bivens

Executive director

Board chair

Whitney Bruins

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

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Listed1212131313131311
Joined·+4+9+1+4+1+1+0
No longer listed·4814112
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*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of JAMESTOWN 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

JAMESTOWN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 1 state in all.

SD

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 JAMESTOWN 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 North Dakota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

ND

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JAMESTOWN 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 JAMESTOWN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
JAMESTOWN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (North Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,750 to it, the largest being SANFORD GROUP RETURN ($5,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JAMESTOWN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,750 in grants to JAMESTOWN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Who is the largest funder of JAMESTOWN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
SANFORD GROUP RETURN is the largest funder on record, with $5,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JAMESTOWN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 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