Della Lamb Community Services

Analysis

Della Lamb Community Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Kansas City, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1953, 73 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, Della Lamb Community Services reported income of $5.9m and spending of $6.3m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.3m to $5.9m (+76%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Della Lamb Community Services sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 91st percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include United Way of El Paso County ($5.9m), Nicholas Center Ltd ($5.9m) and Minnesota Black Collective Foundation ($5.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% and program service revenue 5.9% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2.3m. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $614k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 71 employees.