Minnesota · Nonprofit
SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,361,451 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($307,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $414k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $-14160
What Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Charitable Foundation does
Mission
The Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Charitable Foundation is the fund development arm of the chamber that makes it possible for the chamber to more fully realize its vision. The foundation's mission is to make targeted investments to develop and support engaged leaders who enhance a vibrant east metro business community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Leadership st. Paul (lsp): the chamber's flagship adult learning program is centered on community leadership that prepares, challenges, and engages emerging and existing leaders to strengthen the saint paul/east metro region. The class has a monthly program day and community projects to complete in groups. As part of the lsp program, the foundation also provides alumni programing with six opportunities to continue cultivating knowledge about saint paul and the east metro, as well as connect with each other through networking yearly.
$56,725 spent$114,350 earned by the program14% of program spendingGeneral programs: support of events, meetings, and publications that provide the advancement of civic, social, commercial, and economic interest of the city of saint paul and surrounding east metro area
$360,279 spentof which $241,821 as grants$38,434 earned by the program86% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $417,004.
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 2017 to 2018, from $503k to $1.0M (+101%).
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: 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Julia Jenson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100k → $110k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $494k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation); $183k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Charitable Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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
SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
31% 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 SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 46% · 2020 22% · 2021 52% · 2022 55% — diversifying over time.
“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
20% of SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% 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 FY2022, 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
58% of SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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.
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
- SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,361,451 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($307,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,361,451 in grants to SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
- JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $307,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 19 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