African American Chamber of Commerce
Milwaukee, WI · EIN 39-1768969. Reported 43 grants totalling $600,294 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For African American Chamber of Commerce, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B95Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $18,877; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $5,500 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niche Book Bar | Milwaukee, WI | $70,898 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Buffalo Boss | Milwaukee, WI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fly Nails LLC | Milwaukee, WI | $25,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Delicious Bites | Wauwatosa, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| J & Sons Transport LLC | Glendale, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Next Generation Day Camp | Milwaukee, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oh Snap By Shell Photography LLC | Glendale, WI | $19,940 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Allahmode | Milwaukee, WI | $19,651 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ebony Esthetics | Wauwatosa, WI | $19,375 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vibez Creative Arts Space | Milwaukee, WI | $18,877 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Classic Shoppe | Milwaukee, WI | $17,746 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Basia Rose Designs | West Allis, WI | $12,782 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ampaw & Associates | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bonifde Nutrition | Racine, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chavah Family | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cinnabar Nutrition | Brown Deer, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Colorful Connections LLC | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Culturally Diverse Counseling Center | West Allis, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dds Media Works | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fusion Integrated | Fox Point, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Great Impressions | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| K&r Compassionate Care LLC | West Allis, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lean Design Werks | Beloit, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Leaders Learning and Literacy Academy LLC | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Luxuriant Cleaning Group LLC | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Midwest Advantage | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Milted Trucking | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mocha Beauty | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Retrac Enterprises Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Super Expedite | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Unieez LLC | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Watersview Investments Group | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Life Like Camera | Milwaukee, WI | $9,992 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Honeybee Sage & Wellness Apothecary LLC | Milwaukee, WI | $9,986 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Moments Exotic | Milwaukee, WI | $9,972 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good Entertainment LLC | Milwaukee, WI | $9,955 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grind Season | Mount Pleasant, WI | $9,945 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mchete's African Treasures LLC | Milwaukee, WI | $9,925 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connect Business Consulting | Milwaukee, WI | $9,862 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Empowering Wealth Financial Coaching | Milwaukee, WI | $9,320 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Monnie's Kitchen | Milwaukee, WI | $6,568 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
2 of 41 (5%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Buffalo Boss
SMALL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE GRANT - Niche Book Bar
SEED FUNDING AND OPERATIONS OF OPENING A STORE FRONT
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | $30,000 | $30,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | $40,898 | $40,898 |
| 2023 | 1 | $5,500 | $5,500 |
| 2024 | 40 | $523,896 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Wisconsin.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from African American Chamber of Commerce's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1920 N Martin Luther King JR Driv, Milwaukee, WI, 53212.
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