Animal Rescue Project

Analysis

Animal Rescue Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Kalamazoo, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2011, 15 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 September 2023, Animal Rescue Project reported income of $838k and spending of $632k, leaving 25% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $338k to $838k (+148%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 127%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Animal Rescue Project sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Blood Origins Inc ($838k), Happily Ever After Animal Sanctuaryinc ($839k) and Sequoia Park Zoo Foundation ($838k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 60% and program service revenue 40% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $273k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $499k, net assets of $859k. It reported 22 employees.