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LORAIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC

LORAIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being ELYRIA COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$385k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$113k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Lorain County Chamber of Commerce Inc does

Mission

To enhance the quality of life in lorain county through a unified and coordinated regional economic development program that provides leadership, maximizes resources, and emphasizes cooperation.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To enhance the quality of life in lorain county through a unified and coordinated regional economic development program that provides leadership, maximized resources, and emphasizes cooperation.

    $257,882 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. To enhance the quality of life in lorain county through a unified and coordinated regional economic development program that provides leadership, maximized resources, and emphasizes cooperation.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $257,882.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($390k) Expenses 100 ($361k) Net assets 100 ($164k)2018 Revenue 100 ($392k) Expenses 103 ($372k) Net assets 112 ($183k)2019 Revenue 104 ($405k) Expenses 106 ($383k) Net assets 125 ($204k)2020 Revenue 92 ($357k) Expenses 92 ($333k) Net assets 140 ($228k)2021 Revenue 89 ($346k) Expenses 99 ($357k) Net assets 145 ($237k)2022 Revenue 96 ($373k) Expenses 114 ($413k) Net assets 133 ($218k)2023 Revenue 88 ($342k) Expenses 109 ($394k) Net assets 101 ($166k)2024 Revenue 99 ($385k) Expenses 121 ($438k) Net assets 69 ($113k)
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Revenue (99)Expenses (121)Net assets (69)

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 $241k to $163k (−32%).

$165k
$186k
$206k
$235k
$307k
$239k
$241k
$163k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$29k
’17
$20k
’18
$23k
’19
$24k
’20
−$11k
’21
−$39k
’22
−$52k
’23
−$53k
’24
4.4
months of
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

John Bryan

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2524222424232220
Joined·+1+2+4+1+3+3+1
No longer listed·2421443
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $1k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
1
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $30k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jumpstart Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LORAIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC raised.

From the IRS filings of LORAIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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

LORAIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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

50% 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 LORAIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC.

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 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

75% of LORAIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH
PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like LORAIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

23
board members
96%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LORAIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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 LORAIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC?
LORAIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being ELYRIA COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LORAIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to LORAIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LORAIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC?
ELYRIA COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION 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 LORAIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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