Animal Defense League Foundation

Analysis

Animal Defense League Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in San Antonio, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animal-related, which this site groups under animals. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Animal Defense League Foundation reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.7m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $1.8m (+24%), an average of +5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 120%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Animal Defense League Foundation sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Susquehanna Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($1.8m), Humane Society of Shelby County ($1.8m) and Hood Canal Coordinating Council ($1.8m).

At year end it held assets of $26.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $26.5m.