Goathouse Refuge Inc

Analysis

Goathouse Refuge Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Pittsboro, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2025. 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, Goathouse Refuge Inc reported income of $559k and spending of $562k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $482k to $559k (+16%), an average of +5.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Goathouse Refuge Inc sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lockwood Animal Rescue Center Larc ($559k), Wanderers Rest Humane Association Inc ($559k) and Pennington County Humane Society ($558k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $281k. At year end it held assets of $8,516 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $8,516. It reported 54 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.