McMinn Regional Humane Society

Analysis

McMinn Regional Humane Society is a registered charity in United States, based in Athens, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1991, 35 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, McMinn Regional Humane Society reported income of $713k and spending of $788k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $311k to $713k (+129%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 228%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, McMinn Regional Humane Society sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Humane Society of Dorchester County Inc ($711k), Iowa Humane Alliance ($713k) and Humane Society of Rome Inc ($711k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 23% and program service revenue 76% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $336k. At year end it held assets of $878k against liabilities of $55k, net assets of $824k. It reported 10 employees.

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.