Wayside Waifs Inc

Analysis

Wayside Waifs Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Kansas City, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1953, 73 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 December 2023, Wayside Waifs Inc reported income of $8.9m and spending of $7.6m, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $9.7m to $8.9m (-8.1%), an average of -2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 70% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Wayside Waifs Inc sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Young-Williams Animal Center of East Tennessee ($8.9m), Central Florida Zoological Society Inc ($9.0m) and Safari Club International Foundation ($8.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 81% and program service revenue 8.5% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $299k (3.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $3.5m. It paid $350k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $38.0m against liabilities of $531k, net assets of $37.5m. It reported 114 employees.