Lehigh Acres Community Services Inc

Analysis

Lehigh Acres Community Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Lehigh Acres, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 September 2023, Lehigh Acres Community Services Inc reported income of $462k and spending of $512k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $523k to $462k (-12%), an average of -3.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income dropped by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lehigh Acres Community Services Inc sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Stayton Community Food Bank ($462k), Michigan Mathematics and Science Centers Network ($462k) and Rainbows for All Children Inc ($462k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $42k (8.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $123k. At year end it held assets of $751k against liabilities of $21k, net assets of $731k. It reported 5 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.