Franklin County Animal Shelter

Analysis

Franklin County Animal Shelter is a registered charity in United States, based in Farmington, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1977, 49 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animal-related, which this site groups under animals. 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 2022, Franklin County Animal Shelter reported income of $415k and spending of $419k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $409k to $415k (+1.6%), an average of +0.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Franklin County Animal Shelter sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kitty Kat Haven & Rescue ($414k), Fraternity of the Desert Bighorn ($415k) and Prince William Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals I ($414k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $230k (55% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $8,105. At year end it held assets of $3.2m against liabilities of $523k, net assets of $2.7m. It reported 21 employees.