Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce I
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540206469
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Mclean, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7037490400
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,553,003
- Expenses
- $2,542,998
- Assets
- $883,079
- Liabilities
- $948,888
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
78 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIE COONS (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
- ALEXIS REED (VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING & COMM.)
Highest reported compensation
- JULIE COONS (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $385,627 total reported compensation
- KEVIN KELLY (VP, FINANCE & ADMIN): $222,124 total reported compensation
- JARED SLOANE (SENIOR VP, MEMBER ENGAGEMENT): $177,842 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the economic vitality, quality of life & political interests of the chamber's members & the business community of northern Virginia through educational programs and various publications; to foster the development of new and existing businesses in northern Virginia.
What it reported doing in 2025
The northern Virginia chamber of commerce (the chamber) is a membership organization dedicated to the development of new and existing businesses in northern Virginia and supporting business throughout the greater Washington metropolitan area.
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
- 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: 79
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 98.5%; rating input score 99; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.4%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.07; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 66 of 67 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $386K · 78 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.