Lakeshore Paws Inc

Analysis

Lakeshore Paws Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Valparaiso, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2011, 15 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, Lakeshore Paws Inc reported income of $651k and spending of $581k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $473k to $651k (+38%), an average of +8.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 89%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Lakeshore Paws Inc sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Animal Behavior Society Inc ($650k), Whispering Grace Horses ($651k) and Humane Society of Putnam County Inc ($650k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 50% and program service revenue 28% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $307k. At year end it held assets of $909k against liabilities of $73k, net assets of $836k. It reported 30 employees.