Executive Forum of the Lehigh Valley
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464954917
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Allentown, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4847880636
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,517
- Expenses
- $48,879
- Assets
- $47,767
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JONATHAN BLACK (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JENA DIEFENDERFER (SECRETARY)
- CHAD CLAUSER (VICE PRESIDE)
- JONATHAN BLACK (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
Executive forum of the lehigh valley (the association) is established to provide a networking organization for business professionals of the lehigh valley (consisting of lehigh, northampton, monroe, carbon and bucks counties in Pennsylvania and the surrounding areas) by creating an environment where business executives and organizational leaders associate by encouraging them to freely exchange experiences and ideas within their professional atmospheres while promoting improvement within the communities in the lehigh valley.
What it reported doing in 2025
The activities of the executive forum of the lehigh valley (the association) consist of hosting regular meetings of the members of the association, at which members discuss current events within businesses and organizations with which they are associated. Meetings generally include a speaker who presents on a topic that educates the members and promotes discussion. These meetings further the association's exempt purposes by allowing the members of the association to engage in conversation, discuss ideas, and network with one another to improve businesses and communities in the lehigh valley. Meetings are held at various locations within the lehigh valley and are coordinated by the managers and officers of the association.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.