Kitten Rescue

Analysis

Kitten Rescue is a registered charity in United States, based in Los Angeles, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 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 (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, Kitten Rescue reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.8m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.8m (+59%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Kitten Rescue sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Animal Outlook Inc ($1.8m), New Zoological Society Inc ($1.8m) and Second Chance Humane Society Inc ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 84% and program service revenue 13% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $731k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $130k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 25 employees.