Lancaster County Project for the Needy

Analysis

Lancaster County Project for the Needy is a registered charity in United States, based in E Petersburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Lancaster County Project for the Needy reported income of $91k and spending of $85k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $64k to $91k (+42%), an average of +42% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 124% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lancaster County Project for the Needy sits at the 30th percentile: it is larger than about 30% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile, and in the 32nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include One Life to Give ($91k), Friends of the State Street Family Inc ($91k) and Bandera Electric Charitable Foundation ($91k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $64k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $64k.