Greater Topeka Chamber of Commerce
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 480451270
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Topeka, KS, USA
- Phone
- 7852342644
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $436,854
- Expenses
- $440,922
- Assets
- $150,275
- Liabilities
- $53,592
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIET ABDELJAWAD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JULIET ABDELJAWAD (PRESIDENT): $146,802 total reported compensation
- JOSHUA PATTERSON (CFO): $123,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The greater topeka chamber of commerce mobilizes the community to speak with a highly influential voice in support of public policies that create economic success. Through a robust advocacy program which includes extensive professional relationships with elected officials, coalition-building across the region, a military relations council and an affiliated but autonomous state and local political action committee, the chamber pursues its vision of topeka and shawnee county as a community which is vibrant, innovative, fun, diverse and healthy, in part, because its public policies enable it to flourish in the global marketplace.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- 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: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 0
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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -0.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.5%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -13.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 33 of 33 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $147K · 35 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 7 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.