Friends of the Santa Monica Animal Shelter

Analysis

Friends of the Santa Monica Animal Shelter is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Monica, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2021, 5 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animal-related, which this site groups under animals. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Friends of the Santa Monica Animal Shelter reported income of $62k and spending of $48k, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $50 to $62k (+124200%), an average of +3426% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 65096%. Over the whole period it spent 66% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Friends of the Santa Monica Animal Shelter sits at the 26th percentile: it is larger than about 26% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 24th percentile, and in the 26th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Adirondack Save-A-Stray Inc ($62k), Barnstable County Beekeepers Association Inc ($62k) and Friends of the S V Animal Shelter ($62k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $44k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $44k.