Houston Cares Animal Rescue

Analysis

Houston Cares Animal Rescue is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2015, 11 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 Cares Animal Rescue reported income of $165k and spending of $181k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $234k to $165k (-30%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Houston Cares Animal Rescue sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Our Wild Neighbors Inc ($165k), Hope Safehouse Inc ($165k) and Must Love Corsos Rescue ($165k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 76% and program service revenue 23% of the total. At year end it held assets of $37k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $37k.

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.