Texas · Nonprofit
PORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
PORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $9.6M
What Port Aransas Tourism Bureau and Chamber of Commerce does
Mission
We support our community by advocating for sensible development and leading the marketing of port aransas & mustang island
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Promote tourism, businesses, and economic development within the port aransas, texas area - the chamber strives to accomplish it's program services through various community functions, special events, and operation of the visitor's center. The largest annual special event is the whooping crane event that the allows attendees to learn more about the endangered species and view the bird in its natural habitat. The visitor's center is open six days a week and offers guests and tourist brouchures and information about local businesses and activities.
$5,216,425 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,216,425.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.2M to $5.4M (+67%).
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 88% · 2018 85% · 2019 86% · 2020 88% · 2021 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Brett Stawar
President/CEO
Board chair
Keith Mcmullin
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $5k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $652k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE raised.
From the IRS filings of PORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND 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
PORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 PORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 50% · 2020 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
60% of PORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from Texas 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 PORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND 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 PORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- PORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $25,000 in grants to PORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
- Who is the largest funder of PORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORT ARANSAS TOURISM BUREAU AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing