Pennsylvania Lions Beacon Lodge Camp

Analysis

Pennsylvania Lions Beacon Lodge Camp is a registered charity in United States, based in Mount Union, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1960, 66 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. 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 September 2023, Pennsylvania Lions Beacon Lodge Camp reported income of $496k and spending of $934k, spending 189% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $621k to $496k (-20%), an average of -5.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 133%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Pennsylvania Lions Beacon Lodge Camp sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bay Area Volleyball of MD Inc ($495k), Vienna Little League Inc ($496k) and Williamson County Fair Association Inc ($495k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% and program service revenue 14% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $350k. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $56k, net assets of $2.1m. It reported 30 employees.