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CHATTANOOGA AREA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU INC

EIN 62-0156713 CHATTANOOGA, TN

Revenue 2025
$12,804,168
Expenses 2025
$11,483,482

Program services were 88.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Classification
1000
Street
200 W MARTIN LUTHER KING BLVD STE 1

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 · 2025

Mission

TO PROMOTE TOURISM AND CONVENTIONS IN THE LOCAL CHATTANOOGA AREA

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROMOTE AND DEVELOP VISITOR EXPERIENCES FOR THE COMMUNITY'S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROSPERITY

  • TO PROMOTE AND DEVELOP VISITOR EXPERIENCES FOR THE COMMUNITY'S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROSPERITY

    Expenses $9,823,137 · Grants $300,000 · Revenue $56,664

  • TO STRENGTHEN THE LOCAL ECONOMY AND ENRICH THE COMMUNITY BY ESTABLISHING CHATTANOOGA AS A PREMIER DESTINATION FOR MEETINGS, CONVENTIONS, SPORTING EVENTS, AND LEISURE TRAVEL

    Expenses $342,693

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JOHN O'BRIEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • JAY DALE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • DARIK DAWES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • JEFF EVERSOLE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • EVANN FREEMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • TIM KELLY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • EMILY MACK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • MICHAEL MATHIS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • ERIK NIEL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • JAY RAYNOR

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • WESTON WAMP

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • CHARLES WOOD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • DOUG CHAPIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • HUGH MORROW

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • BRIAN MURPHY

    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $220,529
    From this org
    $193,771
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,758
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $193,771
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,941
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,817
    Filer's total
    $220,529

  • DAVID BLAIR

    CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $226,223
    From this org
    $189,743
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $36,480
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $189,743
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $12,608
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,872
    Filer's total
    $226,223

  • SUSAN HARRIS

    COO & INTERIM CEO

    Total calculated
    $275,626
    From this org
    $238,216
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,410
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $238,216
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,825
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,585
    Filer's total
    $275,626

  • BARRY WHITE

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $385,746
    From this org
    $341,703
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $44,043
    Hours/week
    40 + 5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $341,703
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $22,250 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $21,793 related
    Filer's total
    $341,703 + $44,043 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $12,804,168
    Expenses
    $11,483,482
    Contributions
    $12,563,590
    Grants paid
    $300,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $12,567,324
    Expenses
    $10,743,050
    Contributions
    $12,369,729
    Grants paid
    $300,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $12,382,529
    Expenses
    $13,062,044
    Contributions
    $10,626,225
    Grants paid
    $300,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,349,629
    Expenses
    $12,131,679
    Contributions
    $10,946,548
    Grants paid
    $1,151,751

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,124,566
    Expenses
    $10,136,676
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,892,228

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,628,940
    Expenses
    $7,066,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,494,476

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,249,027
    Expenses
    $8,723,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,104,411

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,896,762
    Expenses
    $9,463,228
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,605,879

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,896,762
    Expenses
    $9,463,228
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,605,879

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,706,622
    Expenses
    $9,139,953
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,818,847

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,706,619
    Expenses
    $9,186,200
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,772,598

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,306,914
    Expenses
    $7,805,864
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,484,295

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,554,210
    Expenses
    $7,445,032
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,954,090

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,271,951
    Expenses
    $7,338,553
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,574,297

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 2025 return

Declared as related by

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.