White Buffalo Inc

Analysis

White Buffalo Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Chester, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1996, 30 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, White Buffalo Inc reported income of $2.9m and spending of $2.7m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.8m to $2.9m (+59%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, White Buffalo Inc sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sky Dog Sanctuary Inc ($2.9m), Lake Superior Zoological Society ($2.9m) and Dakota Zoological Society Inc ($2.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% and program service revenue 13% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $240k (8.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $804k. At year end it held assets of $3.5m against liabilities of $10k, net assets of $3.5m. It reported 16 employees.