Tattered Paws and Golden Hearts Rescue

Analysis

Tattered Paws and Golden Hearts Rescue is a registered charity in United States, based in Bellingham, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2018, 8 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, Tattered Paws and Golden Hearts Rescue reported income of $962k and spending of $988k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $247k to $962k (+290%), an average of +57% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 85%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Tattered Paws and Golden Hearts Rescue sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Forward Fund Inc ($961k), Junior Livestock Show of Spokane ($962k) and Endangered Species Coalition ($960k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 74% and program service revenue 26% of the total. It paid $4,570 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $1.0m, net assets of $55k.