Alabama · Nonprofit
OPELIKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
OPELIKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,521 to it, the largest being SAMFORD-CANNON FOUNDATION ($151,521). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $463k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $176k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Opelika Chamber Foundation Inc does
Mission
The foundations primary purpose is to support the philanthropic, economic development and community building efforts of our partner organization,the opelika chamber of commerce.we work to address challenges facing our community,including workforce development and other barriers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The exempt purpose is to raise funds for a service project to be administered annually for the 20 under 40 group. All funds were raised and spent to build an outdoor classroom for the opelika learning center in 2023. The exempt purpose is to raise funds for the renovation and capital campaign project for a workforce development and training center located at 200 s 6th street in opelika, alabama which will house the opelika chamber of commerce, the opelika chamber foundation and auburn-opelika tourism in addition to a business incubator and training facility. The exempt purpose is to raise funds for the renovation and capital campaign project for a workforce development and training center located at 200 s. 6th street in opelika, alabama, which will house the opelika chamber of commerce, the opelika chamber foundation, and auburn-opelika tourism, in addition to a business incubator and training facility.
$22,550 spent$22,317 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,550.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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 $1.0M to $3.6M (+246%).
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.
94% of OPELIKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Carlton Hunley
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $61k → $51k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of OPELIKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC’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
OPELIKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 84% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of OPELIKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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.
Against its field
OPELIKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $176k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OPELIKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
4% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPELIKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: 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 OPELIKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC?
- OPELIKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,521 to it, the largest being SAMFORD-CANNON FOUNDATION ($151,521). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPELIKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $175,521 in grants to OPELIKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPELIKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC?
- SAMFORD-CANNON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $151,521 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPELIKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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