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RUSSIAN RIVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

RUSSIAN RIVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being THE HECK FOUNDATION ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$203k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$165k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Russian River Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

The Russian River Chamber is organized to promote the general welfare and prosperity of the Russian River area business community and promotes the River Area as a whole. It coordinates community fundraising efforts and operates the Russian River Visitors center in Guerneville.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The County of Sonoma, through its advertising funds, contracts with the Russian River Chamber to staff the tourist information center in downtown Guerneville, CA. The visitor center handled 552 phone calls, 3,012 walk-in visitors, distributed 9,802 maps and brochures. The center website also had a record 133,518 visits during the year.

    $48,866 spent$160,591 earned by the program
    97% of program spending
  2. The Chamber applies for available grants to be used for community service projects.Listed as grants receivable is a $ 15,000 ARPA Grant. The funds for the grant were awarded but not yet recieved as of the end of the fiscal year. The chamber expended $ 1,500 of their own funds as grants to be repaid from the ARPA Grant funds.

    $1,500 spent
    3% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $50,366.

02The organization over time

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

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($242k) Expenses 100 ($250k) Net assets 100 ($140k)2018 Revenue 99 ($238k) Expenses 107 ($267k) Net assets 79 ($111k)2019 Revenue 89 ($215k) Expenses 89 ($222k) Net assets 74 ($104k)2020 Revenue 121 ($292k) Expenses 109 ($273k) Net assets 88 ($123k)2021 Revenue 80 ($195k) Expenses 105 ($262k) Net assets 40 ($56k)2022 Revenue 74 ($179k) Expenses 51 ($127k) Net assets 77 ($108k)2023 Revenue 59 ($144k) Expenses 64 ($159k) Net assets 66 ($93k)2024 Revenue 92 ($222k) Expenses 64 ($160k) Net assets 115 ($161k)2025 Revenue 84 ($203k) Expenses 80 ($199k) Net assets 118 ($165k)
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Revenue (84)Expenses (80)Net assets (118)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 2023 to 2024, from $96k to $161k (+68%).

$145k
$113k
$125k
$141k
$102k
$111k
$96k
$161k
$189k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 22% · 2021 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

43% of RUSSIAN RIVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,338 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’17
−$29k
’18
−$7k
’19
$19k
’20
−$67k
’21
$52k
’22
−$15k
’23
$62k
’24
$4k
’25
6.4
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

2017201820192020202120242025
Listed14141514111110
Joined·+7+6+3+6·+3
No longer listed·7549·4
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $1k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of RUSSIAN RIVER 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 RUSSIAN RIVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

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

RUSSIAN RIVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's revenue fell 16% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve6.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding RUSSIAN RIVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.

Federal$50k
grants $50kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$50k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 20%Fundraising 9%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds RUSSIAN RIVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
RUSSIAN RIVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being THE HECK FOUNDATION ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RUSSIAN RIVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,000 in grants to RUSSIAN RIVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RUSSIAN RIVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
THE HECK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RUSSIAN RIVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 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