Adopt a Dog Inc

Analysis

Adopt a Dog Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Greenwich, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1982, 44 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, Adopt a Dog Inc reported income of $883k and spending of $915k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $1.6m to $883k (-46%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Adopt a Dog Inc sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pearl River County SPCA Inc ($882k), Friends of Camden Animal Shelter ($883k) and New Castle-Henry County Animal Shelter ($881k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 60% and program service revenue 16% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $85k (9.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $359k. At year end it held assets of $3.6m against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $3.6m. It reported 15 employees.