Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY
LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,730 to it, the largest being STUDENT SERVICES INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry does
Mission
The Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry's mission is to create the environment, facilitate partnerships, and lead on issues that elevate business success. The strategic plan is to position lancaster county businesses to thrive. By 2035, lancaster county will be the best place to live in pennsylvania, be a recognized business environment for innovation, success and growth, be a unified community where every person thrives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, the lancaster chamber advanced its mission to strengthen the county's business environment while supporting a thriving, connected community. Through a focus on countywide impact and communitywide progress, the chamber worked on strengthening business across lancaster county, leading a business-forward agenda & investing in people, talent & belonging. 1) strengthening business accross lancaster countya strong countywide economy depends on businesses being visible, connected, and positioned to access opportunity regardless of size, industry, or location. Through a countywide lens, the lancaster chamber endeavors to strengthen the systems that support business success across all of lancaster county. By operating at scale, the chamber helps create an environment where businesses do not grow in isolation, but as part of a connected, resilient countywide economy.countywide reach & visibilitybusinesses cannot grow if they are not seen. In 2025, the lancaster chamber expanded business visibility across lancaster county by leveraging a strong digital and print footprint designed to reach broad, engaged audiences.through chamber-managed platforms, we elevated member businesses…
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.8M to $4.1M (+46%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 12% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. 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 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
Heather Valudes
President & CEO
Board chair
Vanessa Philbert
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $8k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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: $876k from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Foundation of the Lancaster Chamber). These are real filings, and they are not money LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY raised.
From the IRS filings of LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY’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
LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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 LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Foundation of the Lancaster Chamber · exempt
- Lancaster Chamber Bizcorp · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY: 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 LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY?
- LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,730 to it, the largest being STUDENT SERVICES INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $30,730 in grants to LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY.
- Who is the largest funder of LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY?
- STUDENT SERVICES INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 4 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