Cat Connection

Analysis

Cat Connection is a registered charity in United States, based in Sherman Oaks, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1997, 29 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, Cat Connection reported income of $138k and spending of $174k, spending 127% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $142k to $138k (-3.3%), an average of -0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Cat Connection sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile, and in the 47th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Regional Animal Shelter Foundation Inc ($138k), Shiloh Charitable TR ($138k) and Just Paws Inc ($138k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $137k against liabilities of $40k, net assets of $97k.