West Lampeter Township Community Foundation

Analysis

West Lampeter Township Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Lampeter, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2018, 8 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, West Lampeter Township Community Foundation reported income of $128k and spending of $82k, leaving 36% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $257k to $128k (-50%), an average of -29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 314%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, West Lampeter Township Community Foundation sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile, and in the 41st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Path Fund Inc ($128k), Morrison County United Way Inc ($128k) and Cleburne Eubanks Intermediate School PTO ($128k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $95k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $95k.