Pet Helpers Inc

Analysis

Pet Helpers Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in N Charleston, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1986, 40 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, Pet Helpers Inc reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.0m, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.1m to $2.5m (+19%), an average of +4.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Pet Helpers Inc sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pelican Harbor Seabird Station Inc ($2.5m), Operation Spay Bay Inc ($2.5m) and Vested Interest in K9s Inc ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% and program service revenue 8.4% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $88k (4.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $912k. At year end it held assets of $7.3m against liabilities of $1.1m, net assets of $6.2m. It reported 84 employees.