Tennessee · Nonprofit
NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $754,786 to it, the largest being Vanderbilt University ($268,950). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $755k
- Net assets
- $9.4M
What Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce does
Mission
The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Membership services:the chamber's work is made possible by its members and investors who are driving our region's future. The chamber represents nearly 2,000 member companies. Approximately 77% of chamber-member businesses have 50 or fewer employees. The chamber continues to enhance its focus on small business support by providing educational programs, events, and initiatives. Overall, over 9,200 individuals attended more than 140 chamber events and webinars. The chamber's members have grown their businesses, taken leadership roles in the community, mentored each other, and helped our region grow and prosper.
$908,576 spent$4,466,733 earned by the program17% of program spendingEconomic development:economic development activities attract new businesses to the region and facilitate the growth of existing area businesses. The chamber's economic development team work to promote the nashville region globally to site selectors, business leaders and business location decision makers. Efforts of the chamber resulted in 26 announcements which includes 10 relocations and 16 expansions and 5,456 announced new jobs.
$916,553 spent17% of program spendingEducation and talent development:the availability and preparedness of the nashville area's labor force is the number one driver of economic prosperity. The foundation's work helps ensure high school graduates, opportunity youth, tennessee reconnect adults, and current workers are equipped with the credentials and experience necessary to increase the availability and preparedness of nashville area talent.new skills ready in october 2020, jpmorgan chase selected nashville as one of six u.s. Sites for the new skills ready network, a $7 million investment over five years to support the seamless transition of underrepresented students from metro nashville public schools (mnps) into postsecondary credentials, degrees, and high-wage, high-demand careers. The foundation serves as site lead and fiscal agent. Partners include mnps, nashville state community college, tcat nashville, middle tennessee state university, the tennessee department of education, the tennessee higher education commission, the tennessee department of labor and workforce development, the tennessee board of regents, the tennessee college access and success network, the scarlett family foundation, and the mayor's…
$1,696,549 spent32% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,838,171 spent34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,359,849.
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 2022 to 2023, from $10M to $16M (+58%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
C Wright Pinson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $30k → $184k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.4M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE raised.
From the IRS filings of NASHVILLE 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
NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 83% · 2019 80% · 2020 59% · 2021 71% · 2022 81% · 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
14% of NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
75% of NASHVILLE 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. 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 NASHVILLE 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.
Where the money goes
37% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Fdn · exempt
- Preserving Our Community's Future · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $754,786 to it, the largest being Vanderbilt University ($268,950). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $754,786 in grants to NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- Vanderbilt University is the largest funder on record, with $268,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NASHVILLE 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.
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 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