Animal Welfare Professionals

As an open-admission public shelter, we are looking to improve our budgeting and cost accounting to better plan cash flow and fund-raising efforts.  We're looking to build an Excel sheet that shows per-animal costs for all direct services - Intake, daily care, routine medical care, and outcomes.  Does anyone have such a worksheet they'd be willing to share?  Thanks.

Our local municipal shelter is going through an audit and the Phase 2 report has some useful metrics comparing our shelter with comparable shelters in other states and cities. You might find some of these references useful. =) http://www.cityauditorlauradoud.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Animal-Care-Services-Phase-Two.pdf

Thank you!  I'll review this and see what we can use.  

Really well written report, thank you. Perhaps I missed it, but out of curiosity, what year are the stats from other locations taken from?

I agree that the report is well-written and informative.  Since the first few charts reference 2016, I'm assuming the remaining charts are based on that year's data.