Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310239310
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, US
- Phone
- (513) 579-3100
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,442,311
- Expenses
- $29,935,636
- Assets
- $20,885,453
- Liabilities
- $6,741,102
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
60 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MR BRENDON J CULL (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- MR DARRIN REDUS (CEO, MBA)
- MS KIMBERLY LAUTERBACH (CEO, REDI)
Highest reported compensation
- MR BRENDON J CULL (PRESIDENT & CEO): $506,885 total reported compensation
- MS KIMBERLY LAUTERBACH (CEO, REDI): $455,549 total reported compensation
- MR DARRIN REDUS (CEO, MBA): $404,503 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To drive regional economic growth and community leadership.
What it reported doing in 2024
The chamber provides numerous services, including business retention and attraction, member benefits to improve members' bottom line, leadership programs and events, solutions to members' workforce challenges, government advocacy, producing the city's largest festivals, and more to create and sustain a positive business climate for our community, including demonstrating a commitment to small business assistance and economic inclusion. These services reflect our strategic plan: 1. Grow our populaion 2. Grow our economy3. Grow our cultural vibrancy 4. Cultivate a strong business communitythe chamber's talented professional staff works with thousands of engaged member companies, volunteers and partners in an effort to create and sustain a dynamic cincinnati USA, a region of fifteen counties located in three states. The chamber's member businesses and organizations represent over 2,000 businesses and 300,000 employees in our 15 county msa throughout southwestern Ohio, northern Kentucky and southeastern Indiana.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 99
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 98.1%; rating input score 98; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 51 of 52 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $507K · 60 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4M reported
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.