Best Friends Animal Society: $173.5M Revenue, $148.1M Expenses

On the NonprofitTruth efficiency rubric, Best Friends Animal Society pulls an A — the highest available grade. The 85/100 composite reflects strong financial reserves, controlled officer compensation, and the kind of multi-year financial discipline that grant-makers look for.

Annual revenue at Best Friends Animal Society runs $173.5M (2023), placing it among the larger U.S. nonprofits in the IRS Form 990 dataset. On the reserves factor, Best Friends Animal Society scores well — assets relative to annual spending sit in the range nonprofit-finance experts consider healthy (roughly three months to two years of operating expenses).

Five-year revenue trajectory is strongly positive: Best Friends Animal Society has grown materially in real terms, which usually signals successful fundraising and program expansion. Compensation for current officers and key employees runs $4.0M against $173.5M in revenue — within the band third-party charity raters typically consider reasonable for an organization of this size and complexity. This is an aggregate across all listed officers, not a single executive's salary. Best Friends Animal Society works in Environment & Animals — environmental, conservation, animal-welfare, and natural-resources programs. The sector spans large international conservation groups and small local land trusts; the financial profile varies accordingly.