Lititz Area Community Chest

Analysis

Lititz Area Community Chest is a registered charity in United States, based in Lititz, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1990, 36 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, Lititz Area Community Chest reported income of $192k and spending of $239k, spending 125% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $214k to $192k (-10%), an average of -3.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Lititz Area Community Chest sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 50th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sbam Foundation ($192k), Member to Member Inc ($192k) and United Givers Fund of Dekalb County Alabama Inc ($192k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $189k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $189k.