Tennessee · Nonprofit
Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc
Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $608,093 to it, the largest being EASTMAN CREDIT UNION ($174,332). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $608k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc does
Mission
The Foundation was established for community service and promotion. It provides facilities for Kingsport Chamber of Commerce activities provides training to future community leaders helps unite local government, business and citizens in the beautification of Kingsport along with various other activities which enhance the Kingsport area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Downtown Concert Series - provides quality of life services and promotes economic development in the downtown area through the Downtown Concert Series
$242,088 spent5% of program spendingKOSBE - actively assists in the establishment of new small business and growth and development of existing small businesses
$252,068 spent6% of program spendingMove to Kingsport - assists in residential recruitment
$47,994 spent1% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 980,958, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 General - Community service and promotion Program Service Expenses 94,764, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Keep Kingsport Beautiful - to promote community pride by establishing and maintaining programs to keep Kingsport clean and beautiful Program Service Expenses 118,057, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Leadership Kingsport - to provide training to future community leaders Program Service Expenses 92,733, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Education - oversees TN/VA Scholars program and serves as a bridge linking the business and educational communities served as coordinator of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership Program Service Expenses 100,108, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Fun Fest - to promote community spirit during a nine day period each summer when various events take place Program Service Expenses 111,525, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Healthy Kingsport - committed to helping people who live in Sullivan County make positive changes when it comes to their health. Its primary focus is to make this area a healthier place to live, work and play through increased physical…
$3,951,095 spent88% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,493,245.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $3.6M to $4.4M (+20%).
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 42% · 2018 42% · 2019 41% · 2020 30% · 2021 53% · 2022 55% · 2023 47% · 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Miles Burdine
CEO/Secretary
Board chair
Greg Perdue
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $118k → $108k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $1.2M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Eastman Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc’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
Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 100% · 2022 34% · 2023 46% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
20% of Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.
Against its field
Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc is better cushioned than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- Small Business Administration$300k
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 Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc: 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 Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc?
- Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $608,093 to it, the largest being EASTMAN CREDIT UNION ($174,332). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $608,093 in grants to Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc?
- EASTMAN CREDIT UNION is the largest funder on record, with $174,332 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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