Tennessee · Nonprofit
MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,000 to it, the largest being GIVINGA FOUNDATION INC ($118,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $363k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce does
Mission
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Economic development of the standard metropolitan statistical area focusing on shelby county, tn. Service to the general business community to develop a strong economic climate for the area serviced.
Marketing the business attributes of the service area.
Supporting needs of specific special projects that enhance the economic community.
Development and implementation of long range economic strategies
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.6M to $6.7M (+87%).
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. 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $98k → $43k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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: $445k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Memphis Tomorrow). These are real filings, and they are not money MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE raised.
From the IRS filings of MEMPHIS 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
MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 92% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 64% — 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
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
82% of MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like MEMPHIS 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Memphis Chamber Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: 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 MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,000 to it, the largest being GIVINGA FOUNDATION INC ($118,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $363,000 in grants to MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- GIVINGA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $118,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 9 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