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LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS

LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,890 to it, the largest being CHARTER ARTS FOUNDATION ($225,512). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$12M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$494k
Net assets
$758k
5/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Lehigh Valley Charter Hs for the Arts does

Mission

The lehigh valley charter high school for thearts provides a unique environment that fosters a creative, rigorousacademic approach to learning and a development of talents in the arts.built on passion, discipline and a commitment to excellence, thisintegrative educational experience inspires all students to believe in whothey are and in what they can accomplish.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The lehigh valley charter high school for thearts provides a unique environment that fosters a creative, rigorousacademic approach to learning and a development of talents in the arts.built on passion, discipline and a commitment to excellence, thisintegrative educational experience inspires all students to believe in whothey are and in what they can accomplish.

    $9,448,324 spent$11,133,496 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,448,324.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.1M) Expenses 100 ($8.3M) Net assets -912 ($-6910855)2018 Revenue 109 ($8.9M) Expenses 104 ($8.6M) Net assets -926 ($-7019041)2019 Revenue 117 ($9.5M) Expenses 109 ($9.0M) Net assets -861 ($-6528306)2020 Revenue 118 ($9.5M) Expenses 108 ($8.9M) Net assets -784 ($-5944615)2021 Revenue 126 ($10M) Expenses 107 ($8.8M) Net assets -601 ($-4556750)2022 Revenue 143 ($12M) Expenses 116 ($9.6M) Net assets -338 ($-2563644)2023 Revenue 134 ($11M) Expenses 121 ($10.0M) Net assets -222 ($-1683743)2024 Revenue 135 ($11M) Expenses 126 ($10M) Net assets -156 ($-1179097)2025 Revenue 148 ($12M) Expenses 131 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($758k)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (131)Net assets (100)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.4M to $4.7M (+41%).

$4.0M
$3.8M
$3.4M
$3.4M
$4.7M
$5.9M
$5.9M
$5.8M
$6.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 6% · 2022 11% · 2023 6% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

7% of LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$160k
’17
$264k
’18
$491k
’19
$584k
’20
$1.4M
’21
$2.0M
’22
$880k
’23
$505k
’24
$1.1M
’25
4.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Christina M Lincoln

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed81012121111101414
Joined·+2+2+3+1+0+3+5+0
No longer listed·00320410
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $59k → $9k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS.

46%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 62% · 2019 61% · 2020 95% · 2021 55% · 2022 93% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

25% of LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

91% of LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

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PA
NJ
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $226k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve4.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS?
LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,890 to it, the largest being CHARTER ARTS FOUNDATION ($225,512). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $493,890 in grants to LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS?
CHARTER ARTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $225,512 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing