Lancaster County Foundation

Analysis

Lancaster County Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Lancaster, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Lancaster County Foundation reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.5m, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.3m to $2.5m (+8.4%), an average of +2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lancaster County Foundation sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Agape Manor Homes Inc ($2.5m), End Violence Against Women - Evaw International ($2.5m) and Baldwin Academy East Inc ($2.5m).

At year end it held assets of $27.8m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $27.8m.