Shelby County Humane Society Inc

Analysis

Shelby County Humane Society Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Shelbyville, KY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1978, 48 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, Shelby County Humane Society Inc reported income of $177k and spending of $188k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $555k to $177k (-68%), an average of -25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 490%. Over the whole period it spent 121% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Shelby County Humane Society Inc sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 51st percentile within KY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include National Trappers Foundation ($177k), Animal Welfare Friends ($177k) and Norcal Cocker Rescue ($177k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 73% and program service revenue 27% of the total. At year end it held assets of $337k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $337k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.