Lancaster County Community Foundation

Analysis

Lancaster County Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Lancaster, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 County Community Foundation reported income of $20.2m and spending of $16.1m, leaving 20% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $19.9m to $20.2m (+1.5%), an average of +0.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 437%. Over the whole period it spent 50% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Lancaster County Community Foundation sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Shalom Austin ($20.2m), Idaho Community Foundation Inc ($20.3m) and Community Foundation of Northern Colorado ($20.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 71% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $435k (2.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $168.8m against liabilities of $19.0m, net assets of $149.8m. It reported 15 employees.