Hamburg Chamber of Commerce
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 160704906
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Hamburg, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7166497917
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,068
- Expenses
- $129,346
- Assets
- $30,196
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
People named in this filing
- Eric Adams (Chair)
- Frances Vaughan (Treasurer)
- Sally Herberger (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promotion of Business in the Southtowns area of WNY. Hold various activities for businesses to network and promote themselves in the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Farmers Market; more than 12 weeks of opportunity for local farmersand food vendors to sell their wares, bringing many peopleinto the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.9%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 27.7%; rating input score 28
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.9% of revenue deployed · 27.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.