Gentle Giants

Analysis

Gentle Giants is a registered charity in United States, based in Laguna Niguel, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2020, 6 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, Gentle Giants reported income of $472k and spending of $367k, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $294k to $472k (+61%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 138%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Gentle Giants sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Freedom for Great Apes ($472k), All About Equine Animal Rescue ($473k) and Helen Sanders Cat Protection and Welfare Society ($472k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $40k (11% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $198k against liabilities of $60, net assets of $198k.