Hardin County Pet Protection

Analysis

Hardin County Pet Protection is a registered charity in United States, based in Elizabethtown, KY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1989, 37 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, Hardin County Pet Protection reported income of $177k and spending of $228k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $174k to $177k (+1.5%), an average of +0.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Hardin County Pet Protection sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 51st percentile within KY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Viva Rescue Inc ($177k), Saunders County Lost Pets Petrescue ($177k) and Friends of the Folsom Zoo Incorporated ($176k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 10% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $122k (54% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $414k against liabilities of $1,551, net assets of $412k. It reported 3 employees.