Missouri · Nonprofit
SALEM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
SALEM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,059 to it, the largest being JUDSON YOUNG MEMORIAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ($16,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $122k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $87k
What Salem Area Chamber of Commerce does
Mission
The Salem Area Chamber of Commerce is a volunteer driven organization that improves and promotes an atmosphere that enables the community to grow and prosper. The chamber works to accomplish its purpose by serving as the voice of the salem business community and by representing our members in government affairs at local, state and federal levels. The chamber also works to accomplish its purpose by providing members with networking, promotional and educational opportunities as well as information and business assistance. Established in 1930, the Salem Area Chamber of Commerce has served the salem and dent county community for more than 90 years. The Salem Area Chamber of Commerce is a member of the missouri chamber of commerce, meramec regional planning commission, and ozark heritage tourism association.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
A business expo, contests/parades and other assorted activities promote the salem area and all of its benefits. Monthly chamber meetings are held as a means to get the business community together for a program and learn more about the community.
$9,095 spent12% of program spendingThe Salem Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a rodeo again this year. The event drew many people to the local area and promotes the agricultural activity and the supporting businesses in the region.
$56,179 spent73% of program spendingThe remainder of the expenses relate to the chambers other general programs which deal with the promotion of the city of salem/dent county area for its educational, business and tourism opportunities. The salem chamber of commerce acts as the tourism department for the salem community. Projects are determined and presented to the local dent county tourism board for advertising on billboards, signs, magazines and activities to promote the salem/dent county area. The tourism board reimburses the salem chamber of commerce for pre-approved expenditures made for these purposes. The tourism board is appointed by the dent county commission and is funded by a 2% tourism tax charged to motel/short term rental guests who visit dent county, missouri.
$11,011 spent14% of program spendingThe chamber continued special covid-19 safety measures for meetings and office safety. The costs were paid by the chamber to ensure safety of those attending meetings and visiting the office.
$523 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $76,808.
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.
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 $114k to $89k (−23%).
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.
41% of SALEM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $2k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SALEM 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
SALEM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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 SALEM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59 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
SALEM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SALEM 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SALEM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- SALEM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,059 to it, the largest being JUDSON YOUNG MEMORIAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ($16,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SALEM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,059 in grants to SALEM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SALEM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- JUDSON YOUNG MEMORIAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALEM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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