Rocket Dog Rescue Inc

Analysis

Rocket Dog Rescue Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Oakland, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2012, 14 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 July 2023, Rocket Dog Rescue Inc reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.2m, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from July 2018 to July 2023, income grew from $604k to $1.1m (+82%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2020, when income rose by 205%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Rocket Dog Rescue Inc sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Southern Tier Zoological Society Inc ($1.1m), Westminster Adoption Group and Services Inc ($1.1m) and Delaware Zoological Society Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending July 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 61% and program service revenue 39% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $401k, net assets of $1.1m.

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.