Friends with Four Paws Inc

Analysis

Friends with Four Paws Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Oklahoma City, OK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1999, 27 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, Friends with Four Paws Inc reported income of $178k and spending of $180k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $223k to $178k (-20%), an average of -5.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Friends with Four Paws Inc sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within OK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Humane Society of Beaufort County ($178k), Haven Animal Rescue of Texas ($178k) and Tired Dog Rescue ($178k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 52% and program service revenue 48% of the total. At year end it held assets of $25k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $25k.

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.