Marion County Chamber of Commerce

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
750414435
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Jefferson, TX, USA
Phone
9036652672
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$34,789
Expenses
$28,857
Assets
$6,664

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SETH BUCKNER (President)
  • KENNETH JUNIPER (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • MIKE BLAKELY (Director)
  • ELLEN SMITH (Exec Direct/Sec)
  • ANGIE HUDSON (Director)

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

Chamber of commerce

What it reported doing in 2025

Establishing and maintaining uniformity of commerial usages in the city of jefferson and vicinity; to acquire, preserve and disseminate valuable business information; to adopt rules, regulations, standards and classfications where the same are required; to provide and maintain suitable rooms for the conduct of its business, and generally to promote the interests of trade , agriculture, industry and civic improvement, and increase the facilities of commercial transactions

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.9%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.1%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 40.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -11.3% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $29K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.