Rescue a Golden of Arizona

Analysis

Rescue a Golden of Arizona is a registered charity in United States, based in Phoenix, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1999, 27 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, Rescue a Golden of Arizona reported income of $483k and spending of $296k, leaving 39% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $270k to $483k (+79%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 116%. Over the whole period it spent 69% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Rescue a Golden of Arizona 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 70th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Merlin Tuttles Bat Conservation Inc ($483k), Columbia County Humane Society ($483k) and Rescue Crew Inc ($482k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 81% and program service revenue 17% of the total. At year end it held assets of $635k against liabilities of $10k, net assets of $625k.