Vanderpump Dog Foundation

Analysis

Vanderpump Dog Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Los Angeles, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2016, 10 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, Vanderpump Dog Foundation reported income of $1.1m and spending of $967k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $1.5m to $1.1m (-28%), an average of -6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Vanderpump Dog Foundation 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 Friends of the Alexandria Zoo ($1.1m), American Society of Mammalogists ($1.1m) and Humane Society of Blue Ridge ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 48% and program service revenue 41% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $443k. At year end it held assets of $538k against liabilities of $58k, net assets of $480k. It reported 17 employees.