Tennessee Humane Animal League

Analysis

Tennessee Humane Animal League is a registered charity in United States, based in Chattanooga, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1984, 42 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, Tennessee Humane Animal League reported income of $677k and spending of $329k, leaving 51% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $205k to $677k (+230%), an average of +35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 71%. Over the whole period it spent 57% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Tennessee Humane Animal League sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include McCracken Co Humane Society ($677k), Safe Harbor Lab Rescue ($677k) and Angel City Pit Bulls ($677k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% and program service revenue 4.6% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $143k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $2,662, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 15 employees.