Cedar Lake Conference Association Inc

Analysis

Cedar Lake Conference Association Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Cedar Lake, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1979, 47 years ago. 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, Cedar Lake Conference Association Inc reported income of $1.9m and spending of $2.0m, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.8m to $1.9m (+4.2%), an average of +1.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Cedar Lake Conference Association Inc sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Self Inc ($1.9m), Leadership Program of the Rockies ($1.9m) and Schuylkill Valley Emergency Medical Services ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 11% and program service revenue 89% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $758k. At year end it held assets of $4.2m against liabilities of $423k, net assets of $3.8m. It reported 92 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.