Georgia Lions Camp for the Blind

Analysis

Georgia Lions Camp for the Blind is a registered charity in United States, based in Waycross, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1976, 50 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Georgia Lions Camp for the Blind reported income of $389k and spending of $339k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $332k to $389k (+17%), an average of +4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Georgia Lions Camp for the Blind sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hope Center of Livingston County ($389k), Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropic Al and Preventative Medicine Inc ($389k) and Care Net Pregnancy Center of Cochise County ($389k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 67% and program service revenue 22% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $44k (13% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $67k. At year end it held assets of $643k against liabilities of $11k, net assets of $632k. It reported 19 employees.