Therapy Dogs International

Analysis

Therapy Dogs International is a registered charity in United States, based in Flanders, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Therapy Dogs International reported income of $380k and spending of $553k, spending 145% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $913k to $380k (-58%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Therapy Dogs International sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Arise at Marshall Farms Inc ($380k), Morris County Hospital Foundation ($380k) and National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence-Westchester ($380k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.6% and program service revenue 92% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $355k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.8m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.