Arkansas · Nonprofit
LITTLE ROCK CHAMBER FOUNDATION
LITTLE ROCK CHAMBER FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $808,000 to it, the largest being Arvest Foundation ($470,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $528k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $808k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Little Rock Chamber Foundation does
Mission
To promote civic activities and economic development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Little Rock Chamber Foundation promotes economic development as a type I supporting organization through providing facilities and financial support to the little rock regional chamber of commerce for educational and other programs targeting improvement of economic growth and activity in the greater little rock area.
$855,232 spentof which $727,116 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $855,232.
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 $3.2M to $2.9M (−10%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Jay Chesshir
President & CEO
Board chair
Nat Lea
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $32k → $125k.
From the IRS filings of LITTLE ROCK CHAMBER FOUNDATION’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
LITTLE ROCK CHAMBER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 68% · 2022 59% · 2023 60% — 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.
Where its funders are
58% of LITTLE ROCK CHAMBER FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arkansas 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 LITTLE ROCK CHAMBER FOUNDATION
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITTLE ROCK CHAMBER FOUNDATION: 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 LITTLE ROCK CHAMBER FOUNDATION?
- LITTLE ROCK CHAMBER FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $808,000 to it, the largest being Arvest Foundation ($470,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITTLE ROCK CHAMBER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $808,000 in grants to LITTLE ROCK CHAMBER FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE ROCK CHAMBER FOUNDATION?
- Arvest Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $470,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE ROCK CHAMBER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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