Columbia City Area Chamber of Commerce

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
350239705
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Columbia City, IN, USA
Phone
2602488131
Rating confidence
Limited

Reported finances

Revenue
$92,599
Expenses
$85,632
Assets
$33,203
Liabilities
$11,081

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GARY PARRETT (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • GARY PARRETT (PRESIDENT)
  • BRANDON FERRELL (VICE PRESIDE)
  • NICK BREWER (TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Support local commerce

What it reported doing in 2024

Member service - annual leadership conferences solicitor review general meetings. Public service - maintain area directories distribute area maps, welcome new businesses. Economic development - assist area industries to seek out new business and work to maintain business, promote community involvement through business recognition

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.

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: 82
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.5%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 46.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.