Houston Pets Alive

Analysis

Houston Pets Alive is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2014, 12 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, Houston Pets Alive reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.4m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $843k to $1.6m (+86%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Houston Pets Alive sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include American Foundation for Wildlife ($1.6m), Space for Giants USA Inc ($1.6m) and Fix Our Ferals ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% and program service revenue 8.7% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $639k. At year end it held assets of $763k against liabilities of $11k, net assets of $752k. It reported 37 employees.