Polk County Bully Project

Analysis

Polk County Bully Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Lakeland, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2019, 7 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, Polk County Bully Project reported income of $729k and spending of $783k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $304k to $729k (+140%), an average of +55% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 85%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Polk County Bully Project sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include NW Hearts United ($729k), Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley Inc ($729k) and Jesse C Beesley Animal Humane Foundation Inc ($727k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $320k. At year end it held assets of $5,993 against liabilities of $83k, net assets of -$77k. It reported 56 employees.

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.