Sweet Paws Rescue

Analysis

Sweet Paws Rescue is a registered charity in United States, based in Groveland, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Sweet Paws Rescue reported income of $1.4m and spending of $899k, leaving 36% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $767k to $1.4m (+82%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 73% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Sweet Paws Rescue sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($1.4m), 13 Hands Equine Rescue Inc ($1.4m) and Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 47% and program service revenue 45% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $65k (7.2% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $2.3m against liabilities of $87k, net assets of $2.2m. It reported 1 employees.