The Lantern Bryn Mawr Bookshop

Analysis

The Lantern Bryn Mawr Bookshop is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1989, 37 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 May 2024, The Lantern Bryn Mawr Bookshop reported income of $89k and spending of $71k, spending 80% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from May 2023 to May 2024, income grew from $64k to $89k (+39%), an average of +39% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2024, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, The Lantern Bryn Mawr Bookshop sits at the 34th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile, and in the 17th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Leadership Lee County Inc ($89k), Santa Claus Fund ($89k) and Living Word International Inc ($89k).

At year end it held assets of $312k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $312k.