Lancaster Day Care Center

Analysis

Lancaster Day Care Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Lancaster, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Lancaster Day Care Center reported income of $1.9m and spending of $2.0m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $1.9m (+30%), an average of +6.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lancaster Day Care Center sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include A Beacon of Hope Womens Center Inc ($1.9m), Danville Child Development Center ($1.9m) and Ecology Action of the Mid Peninsula ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 17% and program service revenue 80% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $3.7m against liabilities of $772k, net assets of $2.9m. It reported 33 employees.