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VALDOSTA-LOWNDES COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC

VALDOSTA-LOWNDES COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,560 to it, the largest being Valdosta Heritage Foundation Inc ($11,560). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.0M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$436k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce Inc does

Mission

The chamber mission is to serve as the unifying force and focal point for enhancing the economic, social, and cultural well-being of the regional community it serves. The chamber seeks to accomplish its mission by being the voice for business within the community, by addressing economic, political, and quality of life issues, and through a selective businessplan to achieve attainable community goals.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promoted business and economic development

The program described on its FY2025 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 ($752k) Expenses 100 ($837k) Net assets 100 ($212k)2018 Revenue 95 ($715k) Expenses 90 ($752k) Net assets 83 ($175k)2019 Revenue 104 ($785k) Expenses 98 ($823k) Net assets 65 ($137k)2020 Revenue 81 ($609k) Expenses 92 ($767k) Net assets -10 ($-21417)2021 Revenue 94 ($708k) Expenses 88 ($737k) Net assets -24 ($-50650)2022 Revenue 98 ($739k) Expenses 80 ($672k) Net assets 8 ($17k)2023 Revenue 170 ($1.3M) Expenses 107 ($895k) Net assets 195 ($413k)2024 Revenue 135 ($1.0M) Expenses 120 ($1.0M) Net assets 206 ($436k)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (120)Net assets (206)

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 $341k to $625k (+83%).

$307k
$312k
$284k
$276k
$434k
$341k
$625k
$636k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$85k
’17
−$37k
’18
−$38k
’19
−$158k
’20
−$29k
’21
$67k
’22
$385k
’23
$17k
’24
5.5
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

Celine Gladwin

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1717171716151819
Joined·+2+0+6+9+0+6+3
No longer listed·20610132
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $12k.

Funder
'17
'20
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of VALDOSTA-LOWNDES COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC’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 VALDOSTA-LOWNDES COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

GA

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 VALDOSTA-LOWNDES COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC

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In Georgia

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05Profile & governance

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

Governance

18
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

GA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VALDOSTA-LOWNDES COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: 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 VALDOSTA-LOWNDES COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC?
VALDOSTA-LOWNDES COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,560 to it, the largest being Valdosta Heritage Foundation Inc ($11,560). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VALDOSTA-LOWNDES COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $11,560 in grants to VALDOSTA-LOWNDES COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VALDOSTA-LOWNDES COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC?
Valdosta Heritage Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $11,560 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VALDOSTA-LOWNDES COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 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