Unexpected Wildlife Refuge

Analysis

Unexpected Wildlife Refuge is a registered charity in United States, based in Newfield, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1969, 57 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, Unexpected Wildlife Refuge reported income of $57k and spending of $58k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $56k to $57k (+2.4%), an average of +0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Unexpected Wildlife Refuge sits at the 24th percentile: it is larger than about 24% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 22nd percentile, and in the 29th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Let the Fur Fly ($57k), Resqpaws ($57k) and American Pit Bull Foundation ($57k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 75% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $13k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $1,262, net assets of $1.8m. It reported 1 employees.

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.