Oklahoma · Nonprofit
LAWTON FORT SILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
LAWTON FORT SILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Lawton Fort Sill Chamber of Commerce does
Mission
The chamber is incorporated and organized to promote and advance the commercial, industrial, recreational, agricultural, health, educational, social, and professional activities of the people of the lawton fort sill community. Their objectives include: collecting and compiling information of value to the growth and welfare of the ft sill area; encouraging and aiding the development of existing business and industry, and establishing viable economic development programs; and affirming the friendship between lawton and ft sill whilst futhering the interests of the area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Promote and advance the business, commercial, economic, financial, professional, cultural, educational, and civic welfare of the city of lawton fort sill, its trade territory, its civic neighbors and environments.
$620,392 spent$867,572 earned by the program46% of program spendingProvide professional services to the city of lawton, oklahoma, that will encourage and promote tourism and convention activities through providing visibility for the community, distributing information to visitors and seeking opportunities for drawing visitors to lawton-fort sill by supporting conventions and special events, and economic development by supporting business development and legislative government affairs in the city through building relationships between the military and civilian communities, promoting legislative agendas conducive to maintaining and improving lawton-fort sill as a great place for businesses and the military, and providing events for face-to-face connections with state and federal legislators.
$734,386 spent$832,816 earned by the program54% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,354,778.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.1M to $2.4M (+17%).
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 49% · 2018 52% · 2019 54% · 2020 42% · 2021 32% · 2022 44% · 2023 47% · 2024 48% · 2025 48%. 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.
Board chair
Vincent Saylor
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Government funding LAWTON FORT SILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $650 on record.
- Membership in Organizations$650
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 LAWTON FORT SILL 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAWTON FORT SILL 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 LAWTON FORT SILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- LAWTON FORT SILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAWTON FORT SILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $0 in grants to LAWTON FORT SILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
- Who is the largest funder of LAWTON FORT SILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- US Chamber of Commerce Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAWTON FORT SILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing