Lancaster Creative Reuse

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
465586403
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Lancaster, PA, USA
Phone
7176172977
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Visual Arts Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$141,670
Expenses
$137,675
Assets
$19,420
Liabilities
$3,857

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Allen Tate (President)
  • Deirdre Remollino (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Allen Tate (President)
  • Deirdre Remollino (Executive Director)
  • Jennifer Snyderman (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Lancaster Creative Reuse Mission: To inspire Creativity, increase access to the arts through affordability, and encourage reuse

What it reported doing in 2025

The community outreach programs offered by LCR include: -Providing free materials to local nonprofit orgs, associations, scouts, schools, preschools -Attending community events reinforcing the 3R's and share creative reuse as a concept -Support local art and sewing projects benefiting the homeless, refugees, those effected by addiction or other chronic illnesses such as Alzheimer and cancer, and more -Provide job skills training to individuals with special needs, helping them to gain employment

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 63.1%; rating input score 63
  • Program expense ratio: 65%; rating input score 65

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.8%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 27.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -17.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 63.1% of revenue deployed · 65% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $89K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.