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MID-AMERICA GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

MID-AMERICA GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $127,000 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($127,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$473k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$127k
Net assets
$250k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Mid-America Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

To foster leadership for economic activity and to develop a positive environment for lgbt and allied businesses, organizations, individuals, and consumers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.

None

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).

  1. Create, identify and enhance business oportunities for lgbt and lgbt friendly organizations, thereby fostering a more inclusive and vibrant economy in mid-america.

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($167k) Expenses 100 ($169k) Net assets 100 ($88k)2019 Revenue 113 ($188k) Expenses 119 ($200k) Net assets 86 ($76k)2020 Revenue 103 ($171k) Expenses 110 ($186k) Net assets 69 ($61k)2021 Revenue 102 ($170k) Expenses 72 ($121k) Net assets 124 ($109k)2022 Revenue 129 ($215k) Expenses 135 ($228k) Net assets 110 ($97k)2023 Revenue 141 ($235k) Expenses 144 ($242k) Net assets 102 ($90k)2024 Revenue 173 ($288k) Expenses 147 ($247k) Net assets 149 ($131k)2025 Revenue 284 ($473k) Expenses 210 ($354k) Net assets 285 ($250k)
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Revenue (284)Expenses (210)Net assets (285)Peer revenue range

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 $136k to $253k (+86%).

$94k
$88k
$61k
$111k
$117k
$97k
$136k
$253k
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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

76% of MID-AMERICA GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’18
−$12k
’19
−$15k
’20
$48k
’21
−$13k
’22
−$7k
’23
$41k
’24
$120k
’25
8.6
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.

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Listed2019141517121614
Joined·+1+2+3+6+0+10+3
No longer listed·2724565
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of MID-AMERICA GAY & LESBIAN 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.

Where its funders are

100% of MID-AMERICA GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

MO

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

Against its field

MID-AMERICA GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like MID-AMERICA GAY & LESBIAN 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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 41%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds MID-AMERICA GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
MID-AMERICA GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $127,000 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($127,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MID-AMERICA GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $127,000 in grants to MID-AMERICA GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Who is the largest funder of MID-AMERICA GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $127,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MID-AMERICA GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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