Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES
THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,811,746 to it, the largest being AIDSNET INC ($1,580,198). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What The Lehigh Conference of Churches does
Mission
To put our christian faith into action by serving and advocating for our neighbors in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conference housing programs build a path in which those who are homeless or threatened with homelessness can find stability in their lives. The conference offers rental assistance, utility deposits, and furniture for people living with a variety of conditions or circumstances, and builds support enabling families and individuals to stay housed. Shared living opportunities can be available to those re-entering society from jail or prison.
$5,381,841 spent74% of program spendingThe outreach team travels throughout the lehigh valley to locate those living unsheltered, provide supplies, and build trusting relationships. The staff works alongside those seeking change to explore permanent housing options.
$448,805 spent$500,687 earned by the program6% of program spendingThe conference kitchen ensures that the working poor, homeless, elderly, children, people between jobs, individuals on fixed incomes, and those who have nowhere else to turn to receive a free nutritious meal. The kitchen operates five days a week serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
$710,040 spent10% of program spendingThe conference offers a myriad of supportive services to help individuals and families overcome obstacles they face. Uniquely equipped staff meet a person where they are and guide them through the steps to be successful with money management, job readiness, benefits enrollment, securing an id, and apartment hunting. When available,toiletries, diapers, and wipes are given to those in need, free of charge.the drop-in center is an accepting place for anyone in need of support, advocacy, and self-empowerment. Lockers, showers, clothing, access to computers, and trained caseworkers are available to all who come. Educational, vocational, and recreational opportunities work to enhance the lives ofthose who seek to reach their full potential.conference health programs connect our neighbors in need to essential care, including mental health counseling, public benefits enrollment, health screenings, and connections to medical personnel. On-site,professional care is an essential part of self-sufficiency.the conference strives to lead the faith community in feeding, clothing, housing, and uniting our neighbors, generating connection within the diverse christian traditions for the betterment…
$731,210 spent$132,648 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,271,896.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $3.1M to $4.1M (+31%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 80% · 2018 79% · 2019 77% · 2020 77% · 2021 71% · 2022 73% · 2023 73% · 2024 73% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Abigail Goldfarb
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $145k → $406k.
8 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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
THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 37% · 2019 70% · 2020 74% · 2021 73% · 2022 60% · 2023 48% — diversifying over time.
“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
33% of THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
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
93% of THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $278k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.9M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$11.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Conference Homes LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES?
- THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,811,746 to it, the largest being AIDSNET INC ($1,580,198). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $3,811,746 in grants to THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES?
- AIDSNET INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,580,198 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES 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 35 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