Waldo County Humane Society

Analysis

Waldo County Humane Society is a registered charity in United States, based in Belfast, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animal-related, which this site groups under animals. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Waldo County Humane Society reported income of $65k and spending of $32k, leaving 51% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $143k to $65k (-55%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 38% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Waldo County Humane Society sits at the 27th percentile: it is larger than about 27% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 25th percentile, and in the 19th percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Therapaws Senior Sanctuary ($65k), Prouts Neck Audubon Society ($65k) and Great Pyrs & Paws Rescue ($65k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 36% of the total. At year end it held assets of $669k against liabilities of $4,013, net assets of $665k.