Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,500 to it, the largest being BRIDGE BUILDERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FKA VENANGO AREA COMM FOUNDATION ($237,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $385k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $263k
- Net assets
- $104k
What Venango Area Chamber of Commerce does
Mission
The Venango Area Chamber of Commerce builds, serves and promotes regional business. The chamber strives to keep programs current and responsive to the demands of venango's current business climate, acting as a bridge that links businesses, organizations and residents together with innovative programs that strengthen venango county's long-term economic vitality, business success, job creation and quality of life. We provide several ways for our members to enhance their credibility, gain recognition, have a voice in issues affecting business, improve their bottom lines, get involved through networking events and volunteering, and so much more
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The members of the Venango Area Chamber of Commerce annually produce jointly through volunteer efforts an "oil heritage festival" in an effort to advance the public perception of the city of oil city, as well as venango county and to invite people from outstide the community, as well as local residents, to come to the city and participate in the city's past and current heritage. The event is meant to create business, inforamtion, and leadership connections.
Leadership programs: the chamber hosts several programs to advance leadership in venango county, working with local schools, young professionals and civic leadership. - venangoready - k-12 work readiness program - flex - future leaders entrepreneurs exchange (young professionals) - leadership venango - 9 month leadership program
The chamber advocates for a healthy business climate, through the be here venango quality of life initiative, legislative advocacy and convening business forums and educational opportunities for member businesses and organizations.
All other programs include, but not limited to, membership programs and support services in order to promote business connections, flow of information and spotlight local businesses. Programs and events include social gatherings, golf outings, dinners, etc. The young professional program spotlights future leaders and entrepreneurs' of the area, allowing them to make connections and develope their careers in order to help shape the future of the venango area. Leadership venango is a nine-month program designed to motivate individuals who desire to become more effective leaders. The program seeks to better understand the problems and the opportunities in venango county to further future growth and sustain. All programs were sucessful this year and continue to grow interst among the residents and businessowners of venango county.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $245k to $112k (−54%).
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: 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of VENANGO 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 7 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
Dan Flaherty
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $65k → $120k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 VENANGO 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
VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
100% 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 VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
90% of VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $238k 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
VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's revenue grew 24% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,500 to it, the largest being BRIDGE BUILDERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FKA VENANGO AREA COMM FOUNDATION ($237,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $262,500 in grants to VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- BRIDGE BUILDERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FKA VENANGO AREA COMM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $237,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2019–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing