4 Paws for Ability Inc

Analysis

4 Paws for Ability Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Xenia, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, 4 Paws for Ability Inc reported income of $4.5m and spending of $4.1m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $4.3m to $4.5m (+3.6%), an average of +0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, 4 Paws for Ability Inc sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 91st percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly ($4.5m), NW Furniture Bank ($4.5m) and Maple Shade Youth & Family Services Inc ($4.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 51% and program service revenue 45% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $89k (2.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.3m. At year end it held assets of $8.9m against liabilities of $1.3m, net assets of $7.6m. It reported 100 employees.