Richmond Animal Welfare Foundation

Analysis

Richmond Animal Welfare Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Richmond, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2002, 24 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, Richmond Animal Welfare Foundation reported income of $947k and spending of $698k, leaving 26% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $785k to $947k (+21%), an average of +4.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 71% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Richmond Animal Welfare Foundation sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bedford Humane Society Inc ($947k), American College of Laboratory Animal Medcine ($947k) and Shenandoah Shepherd Rescue ($947k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.4m.