Guide Dogs of Texas Inc

Analysis

Guide Dogs of Texas Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in San Antonio, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Guide Dogs of Texas Inc reported income of $672k and spending of $1.1m, spending 158% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $969k to $672k (-31%), an average of -8.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Guide Dogs of Texas Inc sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ridgewood Older Adult Center and Services Inc ($672k), Christian Information and Service ($672k) and Shelton Valley Christian Development Center ($672k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $482k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $22k, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 11 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.