Friends of the City of Buffalo Animal Shelter

Analysis

Friends of the City of Buffalo Animal Shelter is a registered charity in United States, based in Williamsville, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 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 December 2023, Friends of the City of Buffalo Animal Shelter reported income of $206k and spending of $84k, leaving 59% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $174k to $206k (+18%), an average of +4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 65% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Friends of the City of Buffalo Animal Shelter sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Arkansas Thoroughbred Retirement and Rehabilitation Foundation Inc ($206k), Humane Society of Amherst County ($206k) and Poi Dogs & Popoki ($206k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $641k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $641k.