Ausable Valley Animal Shelter

Analysis

Ausable Valley Animal Shelter is a registered charity in United States, based in Grayling, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1996, 30 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, Ausable Valley Animal Shelter reported income of $223k and spending of $295k, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $389k to $223k (-43%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 398%. Over the whole period it spent 64% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Ausable Valley Animal Shelter sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include River Valley Humane Society Inc ($223k), National Foundation for Animal Rescue ($223k) and Wilson County Adoption and Rescue Services ($223k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 49% and program service revenue 35% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $182k. At year end it held assets of $507k against liabilities of $2,240, net assets of $505k. It reported 18 employees.