Summit Assistance Dogs

Analysis

Summit Assistance Dogs is a registered charity in United States, based in Anacortes, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Summit Assistance Dogs reported income of $896k and spending of $839k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $866k to $896k (+3.5%), an average of +0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 71% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Summit Assistance Dogs sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hands and Feet Inc ($896k), Aging Well Inc ($896k) and Turning Point Pregnancy Resources Center Inc ($896k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 77% and program service revenue 0.5% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $86k (10% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $403k. At year end it held assets of $3.4m against liabilities of $80k, net assets of $3.3m. It reported 19 employees.