Buster Foundation

Analysis

Buster Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Van Buren TWP, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2003, 23 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, Buster Foundation reported income of $50k and spending of $59k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $64k to $50k (-22%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Buster Foundation sits at the 20th percentile: it is larger than about 20% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 20th percentile, and in the 18th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Micronesian Shark Foundation ($50k), The Dawg Squad ($50k) and Friends of the Preserve Inc ($50k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 104% of the total. At year end it held assets of $40k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $40k.