Best Friends Animal Society
Kanab, UT · EIN 237147797 · Animal Protection and Welfare · IRS code D20
Their finances
from their own IRS Form 990, fiscal year 2024Spending breakdown — and why we do not lead with it
A high figure here is not straightforwardly good. The measure counts money spent on programmes against money spent running the organisation, so it rewards charities that under-invest in staff, systems and evaluation — and it can be moved by accounting choices rather than by doing more. The largest charity raters publicly abandoned it as a headline measure for exactly that reason. It is here because it is on the filing and people look for it, not because we think it tells you who to give to.
Compared with 16 other charities we list under Animal Protection and Welfare. Comparisons are only made within one IRS cause code, because these ratios are not comparable between different kinds of charity — an organisation that charges fees will always show a lower donation share than one that does not, whatever its merits.
Figures are as the organisation reported them to the IRS. We do not adjust, score or rate them, and we do not combine them into a single number — that would require deciding how much each one matters, which is your judgement to make, not ours.
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Against every Animal Protection and Welfare charity in the country
5,189 filed under IRS code D20 in 2025A percentile here is a position among charities the IRS classifies the same way — it is not a score, and being lower is not automatically worse. A large organisation running its own veterinary hospitals will spend a different share on programmes than one that passes grants through, and both are doing their job.
Others doing the same thing
IRS code D20 · 18 we listEvery organisation below is classified under the same IRS code, which is what makes putting them in one table defensible. Largest first — not ranked by any of the figures.
| Charity | Revenue | From donations | Programmes | Top salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASPCA New York, NY · FY2024 | $446M | 88% | 75% | $1M |
| Best Friends Animal Society — this page Kanab, UT · FY2024 | $148M | 97% | 75% | $527K |
| North Shore Animal League America Inc Prt Washingtn, NY · FY2024 | $46M | 77% | 81% | $481K |
| Center For Biological Diversity Inc Tucson, AZ · FY2024 | $46M | 82% | 88% | $317K |
| Muttville San Francisco, CA · FY2024 | $11M | 96% | 68% | $249K |
| Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc Berkeley, CA · FY2025 | $7M | 91% | 85% | $273K |
| Four Paws International Inc Boston, MA · FY2024 | $3M | 100% | 68% | $110K |
| Brooke Usa Inc Lexington, KY · FY2024 | $2M | over 100% | 52% | $152K |
| No Dogs Left Behind Inc New York, NY · FY2024 | $1M | 100% | 100% | $69K |
| 4 Luv Of Dog Rescue Fargo, ND · FY2024 | $600K | 77% | 100% | — |
| Hope Animal Rescue Durham, NC · FY2025 | $376K | 98% | 91% | — |
| Carolina Boxer Rescue Inc Hampstead, NC · FY2024 | $374K | 73% | — | — |
| Animals Rule Placement Foundation San Pedro, CA · FY2025 | $363K | 94% | 89% | — |
| Tri-state Basset Hound Rescue Inc Mays Landing, NJ · FY2025 | $261K | 85% | 94% | — |
| Chelseas Hope Boxer Rescue Bethel, NY · FY2025 | $248K | 28% | 100% | — |
| True Love Rescue Lodi, CA · FY2025 | $231K | 28% | 94% | — |
| Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket Inc Nantucket, MA | — | — | — | — |
| Forgotten Animals Foundation Peoria, AZ | — | — | — | — |
A dash means the organisation has not filed a full Form 990 in the years we hold, or files the short return that omits the figure. It is not a zero, and it is not a mark against them. “Over 100%” is not an error either: donations are one line of total revenue, and another line can be negative — an investment loss, or an event that cost more than it raised.
The IRS registry lists this organisation’s revenue as $178M, while their most recent filing shows $148M. The registry figure is not always the latest year; the filing above is the one we show.