Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation Inc

Analysis

Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Maria, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2002, 24 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, Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation Inc reported income of $110k and spending of $121k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $143k to $110k (-24%), an average of -6.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 121% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation Inc sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile, and in the 42nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Second Chance for Animals Inc ($110k), Rescuecats Inc ($110k) and Humane Society of Coleman County ($110k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $257k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $257k.

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.