Blackford County Animal Shelter Inc

Analysis

Blackford County Animal Shelter Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Hartford City, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1988, 38 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, Blackford County Animal Shelter Inc reported income of $190k and spending of $226k, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $204k to $190k (-7.0%), an average of -1.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Blackford County Animal Shelter Inc sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Passion 4 Pits Rescue Inc ($190k), Happy Homes Animal Rescue Inc ($190k) and Friends of Wake County Animal Center Inc ($190k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $88k. At year end it held assets of $347k against liabilities of $73k, net assets of $274k. It reported 24 employees.

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.