Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
230961100
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Harrisburg, PA, USA
Phone
7172553252
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$9,409,634
Expenses
$9,816,603
Assets
$37,701,660
Liabilities
$4,033,525

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

70 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MR LUKE BERNSTEIN (PRESIDENT)
  • MS JEWELL L LESTER (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MR LUKE BERNSTEIN (PRESIDENT): $760,674 total reported compensation
  • MS JEWELL L LESTER (VICE PRESIDENT): $255,665 total reported compensation
  • MR WILLIAM MILLER (SENIOR MEMBER EXECUTIVE): $253,781 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in Pennsylvania. Thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of Pennsylvania's private workforce. Headquartered in harrisburg, the pa chamber serves as the frontline advocate for business on capitol hill by influencing the legislative, regulatory, and judicial branches of state government. The Pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is dedicated to helping its members understand and easily follow the complexities of state and federal workplace regulations. Services include conferences and publications on a wide variety of issues important to the business community. Our mission is to act as the "statewide voice of businesstm and articulate and advocate on those public policy issues that will expand private sector job creation and lead to a more prosperous Pennsylvania for all its citizens.

What it reported doing in 2024

The pa chamber serves as the frontline advocate for business in Pennsylvania. Our highly visible government affairs team takes action to influence public policy at the state and federal level and works to ensure that the concerns of our members are being heard by elected officials. Through lobbying, testifying and submitting comments to standing legislative committees, developing key relationships, engaging in grassroots activities, and tracking bills and regulations, the pa chamber promotes pro-business legislation and fights anti-business legislation with one goal in mind: improving the business climate and creating a better quality of life for every pennsylvanian. Legislative victories on behalf of our membersthe pa chamber celebrated numerous policy achievements in 2024 that built on our mission of driving Pennsylvania's competitiveness forward. This included tax reforms, including improving the treatment of net operating losses and continuing the phase-down of our corporate net income tax rate; permitting reform to help accelerate the approval of construction projects and economic development; state budgets that do not raise taxes; and continued progress on improving and supporting our state's workforce. Many of our achievements were outlined in a 2023-24 end of session report that included highlights from the two-year session that just ended, with summaries of the policy wins our government affairs team achieved working alongside state lawmakers, our local chamber partners, our member companies, other key pro-business stakeholders, and the shapiro administration.in addition to the pa chamber's legislative advocacy, the report also highlights our judicial advocacy through our coordination and filing of amicus briefs, which provide information, expertise, and insights to help encourage smart court decisions.lastly, the report includes our advocacy return on investment analysis, showing how the pa chamber's successful advocacy saves Pennsylvania's private sector an estimated $33 billion and $5,056 per employee each year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 77% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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: 76
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 48
  • 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: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 98.3%; rating input score 98; 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: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4.3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.84; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 59 of 60 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $761K · 70 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $2.3M reported
  • Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 10 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.