Northeast Pennsylvania Lions Service Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541901751
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Macungie, PA, United States
Phone
484-763-4458
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$551,168
Expenses
$318,968
Assets
$6,367,677
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARTIN ZIMMERMAN (PRESIDENT)
  • FRED FOLLAND (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JIM DOUTY (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MARTIN ZIMMERMAN (PRESIDENT)
  • ROBERT DICKSON (TREASURER)
  • KATHY NEARY (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Primary goal: eliminating corneal blindness; provides grants and advocacy to assist people with vision or hearing impairments, and connects individuals to services and organizations via Lions Clubs across 37 Pennsylvania counties. Provide grants and financial support to individuals in need and organizations that are working towards the same goals Mission Statement. Statement To provide resources for those with sight and hearing impairment and to partner with Lions, Lioness Lions, and Leo Clubs to provide grants for community service projects, education, and patient care within our represented area. Vision. Assist individuals in pursuing future careers helping the visually-impaired by providing educational opportunities for low vision certification Educate the public on eyesight preservation, eyesight safety, and the needs of the visually-impaired in their community Provide grants and...

What it reported doing in 2025

The primary goal of the organization is to eliminate corneal blindness. Goal efforts include promoting the saving, restoring, aiding, and preserving of eyesight and hearing. Highlight programs and efforts in the community that share the same goals. Enable medical professionals to receive specialized vision and hearing impairment training. Assist individuals in pursuing future careers helping the visually impaired by providing educational opportunities for low vision certification. Educate the public on eyesight preservation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 89
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 97.9%; rating input score 98; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 42.1%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 19.96; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $302K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 26 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 26 filed related-organization links
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.