Ellijay Lions Club Charities Inc

Analysis

Ellijay Lions Club Charities Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Ellijay, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2000, 26 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Ellijay Lions Club Charities Inc reported income of $365k and spending of $140k, leaving 62% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $100k to $365k (+263%), an average of +38% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 384%. Over the whole period it spent 73% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Ellijay Lions Club Charities Inc sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sweet Home Community Foundation ($364k), Sabrina Cohen Foundation Inc ($365k) and Colorado Knights of Columbus Charities Fund Inc ($364k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.9% of the total. At year end it held assets of $325k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $325k.