Animal Advocates

Analysis

Animal Advocates is a registered charity in United States, based in Okatie, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2006, 20 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 2022, Animal Advocates reported income of $742k and spending of $620k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $578k to $742k (+28%), an average of +8.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 97%. Over the whole period it spent 72% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Animal Advocates sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tracyspawsrescue ($742k), Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery Board ($743k) and Central Coast Salmon Enhancement ($741k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 62% and program service revenue 38% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $262k. At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $25k, net assets of $2.1m.