Linden Hill United Methodist Cemetery Corp-Oration
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Linden Hill United Methodist Cemetery Corp. (LHC) located in Ridgewood, Queens, New York, is a nonsectarian not-for-profit membership corporation and is a regulated cemetery corporation under the New York State Cemetery Law. Its mission is to sell lots, graves including cremation graves, and other space to the general public for the purpose of burial of the human dead and to maintain the grounds of those buried. All services provided are cemetery related which includes internments, general maintenance, special endowed care and installation of foundations on which to place gravestone.
- Income
- $2.3 million
- Spending
- $2.2 million
- Employees
- 11
- Volunteers
- 0
- Highest pay
- $179,317, superintendent
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $1.4 million spent. The Cemetery was organized in 1842 as a non-sectarian cemetery belonging to the Second Street Methodist Episcopal Church. The cemetery is located in Ridgewood, Queens, New York, and covers 25 acres of rolling hills and gently sloping meadows. The Cemetery is the final resting place of more than 30,000 people. It offers a selection of burial options, including family lots (two graves and up), single graves that accommodate up to three internments when possible, columbariums that accommodate cremains for two, an additional single niche columbarium that accommodates cremains for one person, and private family mausoleums.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(13) cemetery company.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since October 1975.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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