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SC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

SC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being AARP ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.2M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$1.1M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Sc Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $0.

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 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($3.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 99 ($3.2M) Expenses 99 ($3.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 86 ($2.8M) Expenses 86 ($2.8M) Net assets 102 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 68 ($2.2M) Expenses 67 ($2.2M) Net assets 108 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 78 ($2.5M) Expenses 72 ($2.3M) Net assets 66 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 92 ($3.0M) Expenses 91 ($3.0M) Net assets 54 ($829k)2023 Revenue 89 ($2.9M) Expenses 88 ($2.9M) Net assets 58 ($891k)2024 Revenue 87 ($2.8M) Expenses 90 ($2.9M) Net assets 64 ($990k)2025 Revenue 99 ($3.2M) Expenses 96 ($3.1M) Net assets 70 ($1.1M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (99)Expenses (96)Net assets (70)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.2M to $3.6M (+65%).

$2.5M
$2.5M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.7M
$2.2M
$3.6M
$3.5M
$3.5M
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
−$900
’18
$7k
’19
$29k
’20
$189k
’21
$22k
’22
$25k
’23
−$86k
’24
$73k
’25
4.6
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.

Board chair

Thomas Rhodes

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed798187758085898387
Joined·+31+25+69+73+37+25+18+14
No longer listed·2919816832212410
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'19
total
AARPunclassified
$6k
funders
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $119k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Prisma Health). These are real filings, and they are not money SC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE raised.

From the IRS filings of SC 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

SC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.

DC

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 SC 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 South Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

85
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • South Carolina Chamber PAC · exempt
  • Sc Chamber Education and Workforce Dev Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SC 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 SC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
SC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being AARP ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to SC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Who is the largest funder of SC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
AARP is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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