Franklin County Legal Services

Analysis

Franklin County Legal Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Chambersburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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, Franklin County Legal Services reported income of $479k and spending of $460k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $267k to $479k (+79%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Franklin County Legal Services sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Damayan Migrant Workers Association ($478k), Frederick Douglass Project for Justice Inc ($479k) and Oklahoma Donor Alliance Inc ($478k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $137k (30% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $211k. At year end it held assets of $355k against liabilities of $12k, net assets of $342k. It reported 8 employees.