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WASHINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

WASHINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,573 to it, the largest being MERCY CLINIC EAST COMMUNITIES ($22,125). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$29k
Net assets
$3.7M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Washington Area Chamber of Commerce does

Mission

Economic/community development

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. All activities are related to the organization's purpose of economic and community development

  2. All activities are related to the organization's purpose of economic and community development

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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 ($671k) Expenses 100 ($798k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 93 ($622k) Expenses 79 ($632k) Net assets 99 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 79 ($530k) Expenses 72 ($574k) Net assets 96 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 67 ($452k) Expenses 68 ($542k) Net assets 90 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 294 ($2.0M) Expenses 75 ($600k) Net assets 184 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 131 ($876k) Expenses 83 ($665k) Net assets 199 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 188 ($1.3M) Expenses 97 ($775k) Net assets 233 ($3.4M)2024 Revenue 171 ($1.1M) Expenses 98 ($785k) Net assets 258 ($3.7M)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (98)Net assets (258)

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 $1.4M to $2.7M (+90%).

$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.4M
$2.7M
$3.0M
$3.5M
$3.9M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 33% · 2021 53% · 2022 6% · 2023 7% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$128k
’17
−$9k
’18
−$45k
’19
−$90k
’20
$1.4M
’21
$211k
’22
$488k
’23
$364k
’24
41
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

Steve Strubberg

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1616171717171616
Joined·+0+6+0+5+0+4+0
No longer listed·0505050
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $6k.

From the IRS filings of WASHINGTON 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

WASHINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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 WASHINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

77%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 72% · 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

100% of WASHINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

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 WASHINGTON AREA 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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds WASHINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
WASHINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,573 to it, the largest being MERCY CLINIC EAST COMMUNITIES ($22,125). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WASHINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $28,573 in grants to WASHINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
MERCY CLINIC EAST COMMUNITIES is the largest funder on record, with $22,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WASHINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing