Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LEHIGH VALLEY CHORALE
LEHIGH VALLEY CHORALE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,696 to it, the largest being THE PRESSER FOUNDATION ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $53k
What Lehigh Valley Chorale does
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
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
$105,698 spentof which $107,967 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $105,698.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Elizabeth Massa
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $72 → $55.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 CHORALE’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 CHORALE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
73% of LEHIGH VALLEY CHORALE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $293 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
LEHIGH VALLEY CHORALE receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY CHORALE?
- LEHIGH VALLEY CHORALE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,696 to it, the largest being THE PRESSER FOUNDATION ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEHIGH VALLEY CHORALE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,696 in grants to LEHIGH VALLEY CHORALE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEHIGH VALLEY CHORALE?
- THE PRESSER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEHIGH VALLEY CHORALE 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 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