Indiana · Nonprofit
WAYNE COUNTY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
WAYNE COUNTY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,000 to it, the largest being FIRST BANK RICHMOND INC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($82,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $594k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $82k
- Net assets
- $688k
What Wayne County Area Chamber of Commerce Inc does
Mission
Promote, lead, unite, and serve members, businesses, and the community in order for wayne county to be a great place to live, learn, and do business.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conducted programs during the year to promote economic growth in richmond and wayne county indiana.
$405,719 spent$153,746 earned by the program94% of program spendingBusiness education liaison program to educate school age children about the richmond wayne county business community including employment opportunities and the benefits of staying in school.
$26,176 spent$60,178 earned by the program6% of program spendingThe educational initiative program was spearheaded by the wayne county area chamber of commerce in 2008. This program helps prepare students k-12 through college for the workforce.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $431,895.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $415k to $520k (+25%).
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 1% · 2021 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 8 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
Melissa Vance
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $19k → $24k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 WAYNE COUNTY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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 WAYNE COUNTY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k 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.
Organizations like WAYNE COUNTY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Chamber Center for Excellence Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAYNE COUNTY AREA 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 WAYNE COUNTY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC?
- WAYNE COUNTY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,000 to it, the largest being FIRST BANK RICHMOND INC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($82,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WAYNE COUNTY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $82,000 in grants to WAYNE COUNTY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAYNE COUNTY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC?
- FIRST BANK RICHMOND INC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAYNE COUNTY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 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