Leave No Paws Behind Inc

Analysis

Leave No Paws Behind Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Covina, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 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, Leave No Paws Behind Inc reported income of $907k and spending of $1.1m, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $400k to $907k (+127%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 132% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Leave No Paws Behind Inc sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kershaw County Humane Society ($907k), Pacific Wild Alliance ($908k) and Friends of the Desert Mountains ($907k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 35% and program service revenue 70% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $23k (2.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $648k. At year end it held assets of $101k against liabilities of $1.2m, net assets of -$1.1m.

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.