- Revenue 2024
- $79,356
- Expenses 2024
- $276,588
Program services were 91.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- S20
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 801 W RIVERSIDE AVE STE 200
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
The purpose of the Spokane Area Business Foundation is to advance the quality of life in the greater Spokane region by building support for programs that strengthen education, develop civic leadership, support cultural diversity, improve economic and community research, and build civic capital.
Activities or mission (Part I)
To enhance the quality of life in Greater Spokane by fostering education, civic leadership, cultural diversity, and economic resilience.
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Believe Spokane is a five-year campaign to increase economic vitality with a focus on economic development and talent attraction and retention focused on growth, equity, and agility.
Expenses $207,362 · Grants $120,000
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Operation Spokane Heroes: Volunteer Committee identifies and fulfills needs of veterans based upon referrals from other organizations that provide services to veterans.
Expenses $45,640 · Grants $45,640
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As part of the mission to support education and community research, Spokane Area Business Foundation occasionally holds events. No events were held in 2024.
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Alisha Benson
CEO & Director
- Total calculated
- $254,684
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $227,175
- Other
- $27,509
- Hours/week
- 1 + 41 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $198,437 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0 + $28,738 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $10,656 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $18,045 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $255,876 related
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Stacey Cowles
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Charlotte Nemec
Chair-elect
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Dan Demchuk
Secretary/Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Carla Cicero
Past Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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William Symmes
General Counsel
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $79,356
- Expenses
- $276,588
- Contributions
- $60,477
- Grants paid
- $165,640
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2023
- Revenue
- $680,248
- Expenses
- $97,507
- Contributions
- $676,183
- Grants paid
- $59,084
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2022
- Revenue
- $272,835
- Expenses
- $69,804
- Contributions
- $272,720
- Grants paid
- $69,804
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $60,794
- Expenses
- $51,106
- Assets (EOY)
- $385,546
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $92,911
- Expenses
- $81,414
- Assets (EOY)
- $352,820
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $125,567
- Expenses
- $53,315
- Assets (EOY)
- $367,628
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $138,526
- Expenses
- $153,017
- Assets (EOY)
- $390,251
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $107,706
- Expenses
- $144,738
- Assets (EOY)
- $309,867
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $244,627
- Expenses
- $208,175
- Assets (EOY)
- $346,899
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $267,257
- Expenses
- $416,451
- Assets (EOY)
- $363,627
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.
Grants made
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
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$16,575
2022 restricted for general support of Operation Spokane Heroes. The donor has requested you send acknowledgement of this grant to BOTH the address above and via email at [email protected]
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$15,075
2023 To support global entrepreneurship sponsorships
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared on its 2024 return
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Spokane Regional Chamber Commerce dba Greater Spokane Incorporated
501(c)(6) · Business development organization. · WA
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Spokane Agricultural Exposition
501(c)(6) · Event held to connect agriculture professionals across the Northwest. · WA
Declared as related by
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SPOKANE AGRICULTURAL EXPOSITION
On its 2024 return
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SPOKANE REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
On its 2024 return as a controlled entity
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.