Cat Assistance Referral & Education

Analysis

Cat Assistance Referral & Education is a registered charity in United States, based in Sherman Oaks, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animal-related, which this site groups under animals. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Cat Assistance Referral & Education reported income of $341k and spending of $363k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $143k to $341k (+139%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 528%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Cat Assistance Referral & Education sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Feral Advocates & Cat Trappers Inc ($341k), All About Elephants Inc ($341k) and Norcal Boxer Rescue ($340k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $137k. At year end it held assets of $254k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $254k. It reported 5 employees.