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SANTA MONICA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

SANTA MONICA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$775k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$397k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

To advocate and represent business' interests in issues affecting the community of santa monica, california.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The core purpose of the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce is to foster, enable, and facilitate the success of santa monica businesses, so our community is financially healthy and all the people living, working, and playing in santa monica can enjoy a high quality of life. We are the 'go to' resource for advocacy, education, and resources for santa monica businesses and for the santa monica community overall. Our chamber members rely on and respect the value and benefits we consistently deliver. As a result, many if not most of our members participate in our programs because they are so relevant, pertinent, and 'business cool.' our members feel that our programs are events 'that can't be missed and 'can't live without'. They feel the chamber and our programs are integral to their financial and organizational success. We work very closely with and are considered a strategic, trusted partner by the city of santa monica. We are a national model for creating and sustaining strategic partnerships with organizations that support business success resulting in a vibrant, economically healthy santa monica. Our chamber committees and task forces are well led and enjoy strong support and…

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($848k) Expenses 100 ($882k) Net assets 100 ($369k)2018 Revenue 102 ($868k) Expenses 106 ($934k) Net assets 82 ($302k)2019 Revenue 105 ($888k) Expenses 104 ($921k) Net assets 88 ($326k)2020 Revenue 64 ($547k) Expenses 81 ($713k) Net assets 35 ($129k)2021 Revenue 50 ($424k) Expenses 49 ($433k) Net assets 32 ($120k)2022 Revenue 63 ($536k) Expenses 54 ($476k) Net assets 49 ($179k)2023 Revenue 71 ($598k) Expenses 61 ($542k) Net assets 64 ($236k)2024 Revenue 83 ($704k) Expenses 70 ($618k) Net assets 87 ($321k)2025 Revenue 91 ($775k) Expenses 79 ($699k) Net assets 108 ($397k)
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Revenue (91)Expenses (79)Net assets (108)

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 $363k to $456k (+26%).

$369k
$302k
$326k
$338k
$350k
$354k
$363k
$456k
$540k
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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: 2022 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

−$33k
’17
−$67k
’18
−$33k
’19
−$166k
’20
−$9k
’21
$60k
’22
$56k
’23
$86k
’24
$76k
’25
7.9
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.

Chief executive

Judy Kruger

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed363737413836312927
Joined·+19+0+29+16+7+6+7+9
No longer listed·1802519911911
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Left out of every figure on this page: $44k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cedars-Sinai Medical Center). These are real filings, and they are not money SANTA MONICA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE raised.

From the IRS filings of SANTA MONICA 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

SANTA MONICA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

NC

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

Organizations like SANTA MONICA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

26
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 SANTA MONICA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
SANTA MONICA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SANTA MONICA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to SANTA MONICA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Who is the largest funder of SANTA MONICA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
The Bank of America Charitable 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 SANTA MONICA 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