Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
860020635
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Phone
9287744505
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$749,695
Expenses
$707,439
Assets
$1,633,046
Liabilities
$55,493

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

23 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Julie Pastrick (President & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Julie Pastrick (President & CEO): $102,725 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Advancing a strong business climate and vibrant economy by being an advocate for business and a catalyst for community and economic development in the Greater Flagstaff region.

What it reported doing in 2025

Convention & Trade Shows - Provide various educational and economic development services to its members. These services include sponsoring educational meetings and providing materials by actively promoting its members' businesses to the citizens and visitors of Flagstaff, Arizona.Newspaper Publishers - Carry out operations necessary for production and distribution of a magazine, including gathering news, writing columns, featuring business stories, and editorials. Publication of "@ 7000 ft" is available via a digital copy online.Other Services - Greet visitors to provide them with area attractions and local business information for visitation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 95
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68%; rating input score 68
  • Program expense ratio: 70.2%; rating input score 70
  • Fundraising efficiency: $134.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.31; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.5%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68% of revenue deployed · 70.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $496K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $103K · 23 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.