Animal Friends Inc

Analysis

Animal Friends Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Pittsburgh, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1959, 67 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, Animal Friends Inc reported income of $8.5m and spending of $7.6m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $5.2m to $8.5m (+61%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Animal Friends Inc sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Delaware County Society for the Prev of Cruelty to Animals ($8.4m), Virginia Zoological Society ($8.5m) and Nevada Humane Society Inc ($8.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 84% and program service revenue 12% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $116k (1.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $4.0m. At year end it held assets of $27.8m against liabilities of $5.0m, net assets of $22.8m. It reported 163 employees.