Fetching Tails Foundation

Analysis

Fetching Tails Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Schaumburg, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 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, Fetching Tails Foundation reported income of $357k and spending of $313k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $410k to $357k (-13%), an average of -3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Fetching Tails Foundation sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Raptor Research Foundation Inc ($357k), Okandogs ($357k) and Freedom Ride Rescue Inc ($356k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% and program service revenue 20% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $49k (16% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $25k. At year end it held assets of $453k against liabilities of $21k, net assets of $432k.