Associated Valley Industries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621139049
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Ooltewah, TN, USA
- Phone
- 4233223006
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $111,150
- Expenses
- $103,492
- Assets
- $125,389
- Liabilities
- $7,329
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Odell Frye (Executive Director)
- Leon Simar (President)
- Derek Bailey (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Odell Frye (Executive Director)
- Leon Simar (President)
- Derek Bailey (Vice President)
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
To gain information regarding the activities of utility service companies, particularly as same affects rates of customers; to keep apprised of impending changes regarding expected rates and other matters regarding utility companies; to see ways to reduce costs; to share mutually beneficial information regarding efforts to reduce costs; and for all of these purposes to serve the purpose of education of the members of the corporation in those regards.
What it reported doing in 2025
Associated Valley Industries has 48 paying member organizations and actively represents Tennessee Valley Industries in Energy and Utility issues, helping to improve policies and rates to encourage industrial growth.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.21; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 77.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.