Paws in the Panhandle Rescue and Adoption

Analysis

Paws in the Panhandle Rescue and Adoption is a registered charity in United States, based in Lancaster, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2010, 16 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 2022, Paws in the Panhandle Rescue and Adoption reported income of $175k and spending of $183k, spending 105% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $232k to $175k (-25%), an average of -9.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 104%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Paws in the Panhandle Rescue and Adoption sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 56th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Headwaters Animal Shelter ($175k), Jackson Hole Regional Horse Rescue ($175k) and Erie Bird Observatory ($174k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 20% and program service revenue 79% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $43k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $636k, net assets of $749k. It reported 11 employees.