South Central Pennsylvania Sickle Cell Council

Analysis

South Central Pennsylvania Sickle Cell Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Harrisburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, South Central Pennsylvania Sickle Cell Council reported income of $123k and spending of $128k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $261k to $123k (-53%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, South Central Pennsylvania Sickle Cell Council sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile, and in the 40th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mahoning Medical Center ($123k), Society of Facet Surgical Techniques and Technologies Inc ($123k) and International Dyslexia Association- Rocky Mountian Branch ($123k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $72k. At year end it held assets of $4,820 against liabilities of $54k, net assets of -$49k. It reported 3 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.