Outer Banks Wildlife Shelter Inc

Analysis

Outer Banks Wildlife Shelter Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Newport, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1988, 38 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, Outer Banks Wildlife Shelter Inc reported income of $125k and spending of $146k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $136k to $125k (-7.6%), an average of -2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 100%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Outer Banks Wildlife Shelter Inc sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile, and in the 41st percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Last Stop Horse Rescue ($125k), Santa Fe Raptor Center ($125k) and Therapy Dogs of Santa Barbara Inc ($125k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $51k. At year end it held assets of $230k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $230k.

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.