Southern Lancaster County Community Fair Association

Analysis

Southern Lancaster County Community Fair Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Quarryville, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. 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 October 2024, Southern Lancaster County Community Fair Association reported income of $1.0m and spending of $888k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from October 2019 to October 2024, income grew from $628k to $1.0m (+65%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2021, when income rose by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Southern Lancaster County Community Fair Association sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 2-4-1 Care ($1.0m), Villarreal Club de Futbol Virginia ($1.0m) and Livonia Junior Athletic League ($1.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending October 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 6.8% and program service revenue 79% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.5m.