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Alachua County Humane Society Inc

Alachua County Humane Society Inc (Florida) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,733,827 to it, the largest being WAGMORE FOUNDATION AGENCY ($2,686,995). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.2M
Funders on record
39
Grants received
$6.7M
Net assets
$7.2M
23/39 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What Alachua County Humane Society Inc does

Mission

To eliminate the needless euthanasia of healthy and treatable pets in North Central Florida by advocating for pets and owners,rehabilitation and adoption of pets, humane education and outreach, and promoting the spaying/neutering of our communitys companion animals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Shelter- The Alachua County Humane Society is open for adoptions by appointment. We practice an open adoption policy and are flexible, when needed, on adoption fees to get our pets into appropriate, loving homes.

    $1,639,647 spent$209,944 earned by the program
    61% of program spending
  2. PetSnip- The Alachua County Humane Society offers low-cost, high-quality spay/neuter services through our Operation PetSnip program. Our community partners believe that targeting very low income and spay/neuter resistant owners is the key to increasing pet sterilization and achieving no-kill status in the Alachua County area. Operation PetSnip completes over 5,000 spay/neuter surgeries each year.

    $606,616 spent$575,279 earned by the program
    22% of program spending
  3. Wellness Clinic- The Alachua County Humane Society also hosts a low-cost, walk-in vaccine and wellness clinic. The clinic features veterinary care services including routine vaccines, heartworm and feline combination tests, preventative medication such as flea control and deworming, treatment for ear and skin conditions and microchipping.

    $462,877 spent$395,474 earned by the program
    17% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,709,140.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 132 ($2.5M) Expenses 116 ($1.8M) Net assets 137 ($2.7M)2019 Revenue 123 ($2.3M) Expenses 138 ($2.1M) Net assets 149 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 125 ($2.4M) Expenses 142 ($2.2M) Net assets 160 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 113 ($2.1M) Expenses 147 ($2.2M) Net assets 156 ($3.1M)2022 Revenue 144 ($2.7M) Expenses 170 ($2.6M) Net assets 163 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 206 ($3.9M) Expenses 162 ($2.5M) Net assets 238 ($4.7M)2024 Revenue 226 ($4.3M) Expenses 186 ($2.8M) Net assets 313 ($6.2M)2025 Revenue 220 ($4.2M) Expenses 213 ($3.2M) Net assets 364 ($7.2M)
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Revenue (220)Expenses (213)Net assets (364)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.1M to $6.3M (+54%).

$3.2M
$4.0M
$4.0M
$4.2M
$4.1M
$4.1M
$6.3M
$7.8M
$8.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

74% of Alachua County Humane Society Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$377k
’17
$733k
’18
$226k
’19
$211k
’20
−$97k
’21
$155k
’22
$1.5M
’23
$1.5M
’24
$935k
’25
11
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Chelsea Bower

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed121311111011121013
Joined·+4+1+1+4+5+5+1+5
No longer listed·33154432
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $222k → $1.8M.

10 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $27k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Gainesville Pet Rescue Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Alachua County Humane Society Inc raised.

From the IRS filings of Alachua County Humane Society Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Alachua County Humane Society Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

55% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Alachua County Humane Society Inc.

40%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 48% · 2019 35% · 2020 32% · 2021 40% · 2022 41% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

41% of Alachua County Humane Society Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

Alachua County Humane Society Inc draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 18 states in all.

WA
WI
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Alachua County Humane Society Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Months of reserve11.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Alachua County Humane Society Inc

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 11%Fundraising 5%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

74%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Helping Hands Pet Rescue · exempt
  • Gainesville Pet Rescue · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Alachua County Humane Society Inc?
Alachua County Humane Society Inc (Florida) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,733,827 to it, the largest being WAGMORE FOUNDATION AGENCY ($2,686,995). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Alachua County Humane Society Inc have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $6,733,827 in grants to Alachua County Humane Society Inc, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Alachua County Humane Society Inc?
WAGMORE FOUNDATION AGENCY is the largest funder on record, with $2,686,995 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Alachua County Humane Society Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing