Dauphin County Community Fund

Analysis

Dauphin County Community Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Harrisburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Dauphin County Community Fund reported income of $666k and spending of $540k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $201k to $666k (+231%), an average of +35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 114%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Dauphin County Community Fund sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Canopy Communities Coporation ($666k), Greater Love Childcare Development Inc ($666k) and I Have a Dream Foundation-Los Angeles ($665k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% of the total. At year end it held assets of $396k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $396k.