Danbury Animal Welfare Society Inc

Analysis

Danbury Animal Welfare Society Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Bethel, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1976, 50 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 2023, Danbury Animal Welfare Society Inc reported income of $1.1m and spending of $921k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.3m to $1.1m (-11%), an average of -2.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 78%. Over the whole period it spent 67% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Danbury Animal Welfare Society Inc sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 79th percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jefferson County Humane Society ($1.1m), Friends All United for Natchitoches Animals ($1.1m) and Roice-Hurst Humane Society Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 42% and program service revenue 36% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $505k. At year end it held assets of $3.3m against liabilities of $165k, net assets of $3.1m. It reported 20 employees.