Texas · Nonprofit
WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $809,441 to it, the largest being BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ($635,174). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $809k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Waco Chamber of Commerce does
Mission
Promote commerce & eco dev in waco
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Promote commerce & economic development in waco, texas
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $2.9M (+45%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 26% · 2022 10% · 2023 12% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Matthew Meadors
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $163k → $92k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Waco Chamber of Commerce Community Dev). These are real filings, and they are not money WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE raised.
From the IRS filings of WACO 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
WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 86% · 2019 81% · 2020 86% · 2021 59% · 2022 73% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
92% of WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like WACO 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WACO 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 WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $809,441 to it, the largest being BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ($635,174). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $809,441 in grants to WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- BAYLOR UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $635,174 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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