Rock Ford Foundation

Analysis

Rock Ford Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Lancaster, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1959, 67 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. 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, Rock Ford Foundation reported income of $503k and spending of $418k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $845k to $503k (-41%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 50% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Rock Ford Foundation sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% 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 Westwood Media Center Inc ($503k), Lafayette Symphony Incorporated ($503k) and Albany Center Galleries Inc ($503k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 36% and program service revenue 5.1% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $226k. At year end it held assets of $3.3m against liabilities of $77k, net assets of $3.2m. It reported 19 employees.