Lyons Community Foundation

Analysis

Lyons Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Lyons, NE. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1994, 32 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, Lyons Community Foundation reported income of $73k and spending of $18k, leaving 75% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $29k to $73k (+149%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 109%. Over the whole period it spent 23% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Lyons Community Foundation sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 29th percentile, and in the 27th percentile within NE. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Activist San Diego ($73k), Turlock Sunrise Rotary Foundation ($73k) and Iowa Falls Community Chest Inc ($73k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 77% of the total. At year end it held assets of $733k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $733k.