Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Employee Support Fund

Analysis

Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Employee Support Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Hershey, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. 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, Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Employee Support Fund reported income of $95k and spending of $51k, leaving 46% of income unspent that year. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $75k to $95k (+28%), an average of +28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Employee Support Fund sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile, and in the 34th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include South Pacific County Technical Rescue ($95k), Clifton Volunteer Fire Dept ($95k) and Center Point & Community Volunteer Fire Company Inc ($95k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% of the total. At year end it held assets of $348k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $348k.