Maine · Nonprofit
LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,638 to it, the largest being BOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $140k
- Net assets
- $404k
What Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce does
Mission
The chamber is an independent, member-supported organization, which exists to promote a positive business environment that contributes to the community amd economic vitality of the androscoggin county region.through networking events, professional development opporunities, educational scholarships, and practical resources, we help professionals advance and businesses of all sizes grow. Our membership, representing more than 950 area businesses, is the largest of its kind in maine. The strength in our numbers allows the la metro chamber to provide a collective voice, advocating for issues, influencing ideas, and facilitating conversations in support of business, commerce and community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The chamber's mission is accomplished through business advocacy, member support services, regional development and business education partnerships.
$896,990 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $896,990.
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 2020 to 2021, from $827k to $1.1M (+30%).
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: 2021 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Betsy Sibley
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $10k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Maine Development Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE raised.
From the IRS filings of LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN 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
LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN 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
93% 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 LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 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
LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 3 states in all.
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 LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Foundation · exempt
- Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,638 to it, the largest being BOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $139,638 in grants to LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
- Who is the largest funder of LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- BOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEWISTON AUBURN METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 3 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