Hands Hearts and Paws

Analysis

Hands Hearts and Paws is a registered charity in United States, based in Omaha, NE. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2013, 13 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, Hands Hearts and Paws reported income of $142k and spending of $159k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $178k to $142k (-20%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Hands Hearts and Paws sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile, and in the 44th percentile within NE. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Saving Pets at Risk Incorporated ($142k), Fly Away Home Inc ($142k) and People for Animal Welfare Society Paws of Orleans County Inc ($142k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $144k against liabilities of $6,615, net assets of $137k.