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LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,345 to it, the largest being THE WARE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.4M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$333k
Net assets
$1.1M
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Lubbock Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

The Lubbock Chamber of Commerce provides promotion of business and community growth and development as well as preserving the competitive business enterprise system in the lubbock and surrounding area.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Lubbock Chamber of Commerce provides promotion of business and community growth and development as well as preserving the competitive business enterprise system in lubbock and the surrounding area.

    $412,010 spent$1,003,120 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $412,010.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($613k)2019 Revenue 97 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 89 ($548k)2020 Revenue 90 ($1.6M) Expenses 83 ($1.5M) Net assets 111 ($678k)2021 Revenue 107 ($2.0M) Expenses 92 ($1.7M) Net assets 156 ($956k)2022 Revenue 104 ($1.9M) Expenses 95 ($1.7M) Net assets 180 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 108 ($2.0M) Expenses 98 ($1.8M) Net assets 209 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 108 ($2.0M) Expenses 108 ($2.0M) Net assets 206 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 130 ($2.4M) Expenses 136 ($2.5M) Net assets 185 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (136)Net assets (185)

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 $1.8M to $4.2M (+137%).

$706k
$667k
$897k
$1.1M
$1.5M
$1.8M
$4.2M
$4.1M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’18
−$66k
’19
$129k
’20
$278k
’21
$148k
’22
$176k
’23
−$13k
’24
−$129k
’25
5.1
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

Robert Wood

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed3335333535343635
Joined·+10+5+10+1+4+8+7
No longer listed·8781568
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $120k.

From the IRS filings of LUBBOCK 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

LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

25% 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 LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

30%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 88% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 57% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

25% of LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

100% of LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

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

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’21
’22
’23
Texas 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 LUBBOCK 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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

17% of spending goes to programs.

Program 17%Management 83%Fundraising 0%

Governance

35
board members
97%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,345 to it, the largest being THE WARE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $333,345 in grants to LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
THE WARE FOUNDATION 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 LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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