North Carolina · Nonprofit
KERNERSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
KERNERSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,775 to it, the largest being LAWRENCE & ETTA LEA POPE FOUNDATION ($23,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $516k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $196k
What Kernersville Chamber of Commerce does
Mission
The mission of the Kernersville Chamber of Commerce is to serve the needs of its membership in order to advance the interest of economic development and enhance the quality of life in kernersville.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Annual spring folly - a chamber-sponsored weekend festival for kernersville to shine and where the entire community comes together to highlight what makes kernersville special. The festival provides an opportunity for local organizations to raise money for their charitable causes and provide a "quality of life" festival for the residents of kernersville.
$58,952 spent20% of program spendingDowntown & community marketing and devlopment - the Kernersville Chamber of Commerce partners with the town of kernersville to promote economic development and ensures that kernersville is included in regional planning, provides business development assistance, including promotion, training, and networking, and promotes kernersville as a place to locate/relocate businesses, participates in local planning efforts, including the economic development advisory committee, downtown committee, and kernersville downtown preservation and development council, inc. Board.
$217,578 spent74% of program spendingEducation/teacher grants - the Kernersville Chamber of Commerce is committed to creating a strong business community - one of the ways to accomplish this is improving the educational opportunities available to our public school students. The chamber has established the teacher grant program in an effort to provide unique educational experience for students in elementary, middle, and high schools. Funds for unique educational programs are provided to educators so they can purchase many supplies and materials to facilitate classroom experience for their students. Grants are provided to suitable projects that add value to the learning experience in the classroom and, where possible, for projects directly benefitting both the class and the school.
$18,176 spentof which $18,176 as grants6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $294,706.
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 2024 to 2025, from $154k to $234k (+52%).
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 13% · 2018 12% · 2019 12% · 2020 27% · 2021 24% · 2022 30% · 2023 13% · 2024 12% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Christine Comer
President/CEO
Board chair
Rishado Robinson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $9k.
From the IRS filings of KERNERSVILLE 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
KERNERSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
28% 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 KERNERSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of KERNERSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like KERNERSVILLE 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 Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KERNERSVILLE 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 KERNERSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- KERNERSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,775 to it, the largest being LAWRENCE & ETTA LEA POPE FOUNDATION ($23,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KERNERSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $31,775 in grants to KERNERSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KERNERSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- LAWRENCE & ETTA LEA POPE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KERNERSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2 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