Paws & Claws Humane Society

Analysis

Paws & Claws Humane Society is a registered charity in United States, based in Artesia, NM. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2001, 25 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, Paws & Claws Humane Society reported income of $377k and spending of $384k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $292k to $377k (+29%), an average of +6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Paws & Claws Humane Society sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 64th percentile within NM. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Forgotten Felines Inc ($377k), Animal Shelter of Sullivan County ($378k) and Green Street Rescue ($377k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 63% and program service revenue 36% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $226k. At year end it held assets of $132k against liabilities of $4,267, net assets of $128k. It reported 10 employees.