Christmas Light Up Celebration Inc

Analysis

Christmas Light Up Celebration Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Imperial, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2004, 22 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 (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, Christmas Light Up Celebration Inc reported income of $180k and spending of $172k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $228k to $180k (-21%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Christmas Light Up Celebration Inc sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 49th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include I Am the Art Foundation ($180k), Precision Metalforming Association Educational Foundation ($180k) and Art in Uncommon Places ($180k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $277k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $277k.