Friendship Animal Protective League

Analysis

Friendship Animal Protective League is a registered charity in United States, based in Elyria, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1959, 67 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 October 2023, Friendship Animal Protective League reported income of $2.6m and spending of $2.5m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2019 to October 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $2.6m (+68%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2022, when income rose by 129%. Over the whole period it spent 72% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Friendship Animal Protective League sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lone Star Sanctuary for Animals Inc ($2.6m), Animal Birth Control Clinic Inc ($2.6m) and Valley Humane Society Inc ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending October 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 58% and program service revenue 33% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $894k. At year end it held assets of $4.9m against liabilities of $71k, net assets of $4.8m. It reported 39 employees.