Lehigh Valley Chorale
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811836740
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Lehigh Valley, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6109847713
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,663
- Expenses
- $102,394
- Assets
- $52,810
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elizabeth Massa (Board President)
- Rebecca Troutman (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Elizabeth Massa (Board President)
- Jamie Johnson (Treasurer)
- Jenna Sentz (Secretary)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are a local community choir that performs two main concerts a year, as well as the national anthem at local community and sporting events. We have a fellowship program for future musicians interested in music education, performance, and conducting.
What it reported doing in 2024
The LVC operates year-round through weekly rehearsals and seasonal concert performances. Over the past year, the LVC was able to carry out all programs and projects as budgeted and planned, including these highlights: Spring 2024 Two-Performance Concert Series at First Presbyterian Allentown, 722 attendees Winter 2024 Two-Performance Concert Series at Miller Symphony Hall, 1250 attendees Offered a total of 522 zero cost tickets to the community Collaborated with Mosaic Youth Chorus and Director Dr. Joy Hirokawa Held LVCs first professional recording session (first ever recording of Matthew Hazzards Metropolis) Debuted two new choral works Hosted four guest clinicians Performed at two free community outreach events, including The Star-Spangled Banner at a Veterans Day event in Easton and holiday carols with residents of The Gardens, a local memory care facility Organized a membership choral retreat with guest conductor workshop Established the Maksym Johnson Memorial Musical Fellowship, a paid internship program for young professionals
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $106K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.