Lamar County Humane Association

Analysis

Lamar County Humane Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Paris, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1967, 59 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, Lamar County Humane Association reported income of $127k and spending of $182k, spending 144% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $244k to $127k (-48%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 43%. 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, Lamar County Humane Association sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile, and in the 46th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Shelter Dogs Inc ($127k), Hows Project ($127k) and Lost Dog Foundation ($127k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 80% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $65k. At year end it held assets of $540k against liabilities of $119k, net assets of $422k. It reported 4 employees.