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MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Kansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $451,521 to it, the largest being KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ($265,521). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.8M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$452k
Net assets
$3.9M
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

Create a positive environment for business success

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Convention and visitors bureau provides funds for: 1. Convention marketing, 2. Convention services, 3. Tourism development, 4. Lake development

    $1,599,064 spent$102,339 earned by the program
    51% of program spending
  2. Economic development provides funds for : 1. Industrial promotion, 2. Industrial marketing, 3. Service and retail development, 4. Industrial park development, 5. University development

    $1,165,337 spentof which $2,654 as grants$582,179 earned by the program
    37% of program spending
  3. Innovate24

    $198,379 spent
    6% of program spending
  4. Elevate, kansas entrepreneurial center, hype, loans

    $163,027 spent$135,054 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,125,807.

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 ($5.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M) Net assets 100 ($4.3M)2018 Revenue 48 ($2.7M) Expenses 104 ($3.0M) Net assets 93 ($4.0M)2019 Revenue 46 ($2.6M) Expenses 109 ($3.1M) Net assets 80 ($3.4M)2020 Revenue 39 ($2.2M) Expenses 98 ($2.8M) Net assets 65 ($2.8M)2021 Revenue 91 ($5.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M) Net assets 115 ($5.0M)2022 Revenue 55 ($3.1M) Expenses 120 ($3.4M) Net assets 107 ($4.6M)2023 Revenue 57 ($3.2M) Expenses 125 ($3.6M) Net assets 99 ($4.3M)2024 Revenue 65 ($3.6M) Expenses 133 ($3.8M) Net assets 95 ($4.1M)2025 Revenue 67 ($3.8M) Expenses 139 ($4.0M) Net assets 90 ($3.9M)
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Revenue (67)Expenses (139)Net assets (90)

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 $3.4M to $5.4M (+57%).

$4.8M
$4.4M
$3.8M
$3.4M
$5.4M
$5.0M
$4.4M
$4.4M
$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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 29% · 2018 55% · 2019 59% · 2020 54% · 2021 29% · 2022 56% · 2023 61% · 2024 53% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.7M
’17
−$336k
’18
−$587k
’19
−$626k
’20
$2.2M
’21
−$373k
’22
−$424k
’23
−$182k
’24
−$249k
’25
7.8
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.

Chief executive

Jason Smith

President/CEO

Board chair

Stacy Kohlmeier

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed292829323232313232
Joined·+6+6+8+7+12+5+9+7
No longer listed·755712687
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $45k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
$5k
funders
1
2
3
1
3
2
2
3
3

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $692k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Manhattan Chamber Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE raised.

From the IRS filings of MANHATTAN AREA 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

MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

59%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 88% · 2019 56% · 2020 100% · 2021 48% · 2022 56% · 2023 56% — 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

64% of MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from Kansas funders.

NY
MO
KS

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 MANHATTAN AREA 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 Kansas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

31
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Manhattan Chamber Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Kansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $451,521 to it, the largest being KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ($265,521). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $451,521 in grants to MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $265,521 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 6 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