Pennsylvania Lake Management Society

Analysis

Pennsylvania Lake Management Society is a registered charity in United States, based in Mertztown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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, Pennsylvania Lake Management Society reported income of $277k and spending of $262k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $99k to $277k (+180%), an average of +29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 365%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Pennsylvania Lake Management Society 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 60th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bikeventura ($277k), Outdoor Education Laboratory Inc ($278k) and Lake Dunmore Fern Lake Association ($277k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% and program service revenue 10.0% of the total. At year end it held assets of $167k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $167k.