Lancaster Community Center

Analysis

Lancaster Community Center is a registered charity in United States, based in East Earl, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 December 2023, Lancaster Community Center reported income of $219k and spending of $1,161, leaving 99% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $560k to $219k (-61%), an average of -27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 0.4% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lancaster Community Center sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Volunteers in Action Inc ($219k), Love Without Borders - for Refugees in Need ($219k) and Ladder Incorporated ($219k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.1m.