Lancaster Community Safety Coalition

Analysis

Lancaster Community Safety Coalition is a registered charity in United States, based in Lancaster, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Lancaster Community Safety Coalition reported income of $1.1m and spending of $652k, leaving 39% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $653k to $1.1m (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 117%. Over the whole period it spent 60% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Lancaster Community Safety Coalition sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Crowders Mountain Volunteer Fire & Rescue Inc ($1.1m), Lineboro Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated ($1.1m) and Lower Burrell Volunteer Fire Co No 3 ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $385k. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $50k, net assets of $2.0m. It reported 11 employees.