Greater Elizabethtown Area Recreation and Community Services

Analysis

Greater Elizabethtown Area Recreation and Community Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Elizabethtown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2002, 24 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 December 2023, Greater Elizabethtown Area Recreation and Community Services reported income of $2.0m and spending of $1.9m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.9m to $2.0m (+8.4%), an average of +2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Greater Elizabethtown Area Recreation and Community Services sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Family Life Pregnancy Care Center Inc ($2.0m), San Diego Hunger Coalition ($2.0m) and Learn a Lot Academy ($2.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 32% and program service revenue 66% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $87k (4.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.0m. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $131k, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 168 employees.