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LAUREL HILL CEMETERY COMPANY DBA Laurel Hill East

LAUREL HILL CEMETERY COMPANY DBA Laurel Hill East (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,100 to it, the largest being THE SPECTER FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.3M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$18M
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What LAUREL HILL CEMETERY COMPANY DBA Laurel Hill East does

Mission

Operation of a cemetery to preserve the progressive values and historic status of Laurel Hill Cemetery as envisioned by our founder, John Jay Smith, for the benefit of past and future generations; to continue our long traditions of honoring the deceased and their families with their rightful dignity and perpetual care; and to remain national leaders in our industry.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Care and maintenance of cemetery lots.

    $1,111,763 spent$2,260,074 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,111,763.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($10M)2018 Revenue 229 ($3.6M) Expenses 138 ($1.6M) Net assets 102 ($10M)2019 Revenue 137 ($2.1M) Expenses 148 ($1.8M) Net assets 116 ($12M)2020 Revenue 114 ($1.8M) Expenses 155 ($1.8M) Net assets 126 ($13M)2021 Revenue 216 ($3.4M) Expenses 176 ($2.1M) Net assets 141 ($14M)2022 Revenue 131 ($2.0M) Expenses 148 ($1.8M) Net assets 126 ($13M)2023 Revenue 177 ($2.7M) Expenses 167 ($2.0M) Net assets 142 ($14M)2024 Revenue 340 ($5.3M) Expenses 213 ($2.5M) Net assets 173 ($18M)
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Revenue (340)Expenses (213)Net assets (173)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $15M to $19M (+22%).

$11M
$11M
$12M
$13M
$16M
$14M
$15M
$19M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$369k
’17
$1.9M
’18
$382k
’19
−$62k
’20
$1.3M
’21
$285k
’22
$762k
’23
$2.8M
’24
10
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

James Pope

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1314131414141413
Joined·+1+0+2+0+1+0+1
No longer listed·0110102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
funders
2

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friends of Laurel Hill and West Laurel Hill Cemeteries). These are real filings, and they are not money LAUREL HILL CEMETERY COMPANY DBA Laurel Hill East raised.

From the IRS filings of LAUREL HILL CEMETERY COMPANY DBA Laurel Hill East’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

LAUREL HILL CEMETERY COMPANY DBA Laurel Hill East leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

91%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of LAUREL HILL CEMETERY COMPANY DBA Laurel Hill East's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

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In Pennsylvania

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

50% of spending goes to programs.

Program 50%Management 50%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Laurel Hill Cemetery - Lot Holders Fund · exempt
  • West Laurel Hill Cemetery · exempt
  • West Laurel Hill Cemetery - Lot Holders · exempt
  • West Laurel Hill Management Company · corp_trust
  • West Laurel Hill Funeral Home Inc · corp_trust

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAUREL HILL CEMETERY COMPANY DBA Laurel Hill East?
LAUREL HILL CEMETERY COMPANY DBA Laurel Hill East (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,100 to it, the largest being THE SPECTER FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAUREL HILL CEMETERY COMPANY DBA Laurel Hill East have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,100 in grants to LAUREL HILL CEMETERY COMPANY DBA Laurel Hill East.
Who is the largest funder of LAUREL HILL CEMETERY COMPANY DBA Laurel Hill East?
THE SPECTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAUREL HILL CEMETERY COMPANY DBA Laurel Hill East find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing