ATHENA Akron
Legal name: Athena Akron Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472669400
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Akron, OH, United States
- Phone
- 3308655900
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Leadership Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $105,600
- Expenses
- $103,924
- Assets
- $5,826
- Liabilities
- $2,051
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAM VALENTINE (PRESIDENT)
- JOLENE LANE (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PAM VALENTINE (PRESIDENT)
- JOLENE LANE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CHERYL LYON (TREASURER)
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
ATHENA Akron, Inc. (nonprofit) — Mission: Connect Established Women Leaders to One Another; Provide Emerging Women Leaders with Access to Established Women Leaders; Offer Programs for Leadership Development. ATHENA Akron, Inc**., a nonprofit organization, was established January 5, 2015 as an independent 501(c)(3) to provide leadership programming for women leaders in the Akron regional area. Mission The mission of ATHENA Akron is to:. Akron ATHENA _PowerLink_ ® is an advisory program designed to increase the growth and profitability of women-owned businesses. ATHENA _PowerLink_ ® helps women business owners take their businesses to new levels by matching them with volunteer advisory boards of subject matter experts for 12 months. Since 1999, the ATHENA _PowerLink_ ® Program has been helping women-owned businesses across the country expand profitably through the use of professional...
What it reported doing in 2025
At the annual athena women's leadership day celebration established women leaders share with their emerging women leader guests thoughts and experiences how they have achieved positions of leadership. Emerging leaders are invited to share their leadership experiences and what their next steps will be. The principles of the athena leadership model are discussed as to which are thought to be most important for leaders in the 21st century.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.3%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 53.1%; rating input score 53
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: 1.6%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -21.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 52.3% of revenue deployed · 53.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $55K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.