The Community Y Foundation

Analysis

The Community Y Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Lansdowne, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1995, 31 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, The Community Y Foundation reported income of $151k and spending of $170k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $180k to $151k (-17%), an average of -4.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 83%. Over the whole period it spent 70% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Community Y Foundation sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile, and in the 45th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include South Carolina Elks Charitable TR ($151k), Whiteford Taylor & Preston Charitable TR ($151k) and Gods Food Bank Inc ($151k).

At year end it held assets of $7.1m against liabilities of $5,735, net assets of $7.1m.