Brightside Animal Center

Analysis

Brightside Animal Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Redmond, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1989, 37 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, Brightside Animal Center reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.6m, spending 125% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $1.8m to $1.2m (-31%), an average of -7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2019, when income dropped by 39%. 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, Brightside Animal Center sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Retirement Home for Horses Inc ($1.2m), Corolla Wild Horse Fund Inc ($1.2m) and Georgia Wildlife Federation ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 41% and program service revenue 55% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $838k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $14k, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 78 employees.