Helping Paws Foundation

Analysis

Helping Paws Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Vista, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2016, 10 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, Helping Paws Foundation reported income of $130k and spending of $120k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $195k to $130k (-33%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 76% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Helping Paws Foundation sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile, and in the 46th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mastiff Rescue of Florida Inc ($130k), Prairie Fire Farms Foundation Inc ($130k) and Happy Hooves Sanctuary ($130k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $247k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $247k.