North Carolina · Nonprofit
ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,723,658 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($856,327). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 145
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What Asheville Humane Society Inc does
Mission
Asheville humane society is building a supportive community that posivitely impacts pets and people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, asheville humane society adopted out 1,718 animals, reunited 380 lost pets with their owners, collaborated with local placement partners, and transferred 185 animals to other adoption/rescue agencies. Animals saved in total: 2,339. We also aided 13,389 community animals who never entered the shelter. Total animals served in our community: 15,728. In 2025 we continued to assist with the spay neuter surgeries of the buncombe county animal shelter and community and partner pets. In 2025 total shelter animal spays and neuters totaled 3,362 and community/partner spays and neuters totaled 809 animals. Asheville humane society is mostly known as the open-admission shelter for buncombe county and a fantastic place to adopt a pet, but we are so much more. As part of our animal shelter, we help animals that are lost, surrendered, neglected or mistreated; who all deserve an opportunity with a loving family of their very own. We provide a soft bed, food, safety, comfort, medical evaluation, medical treatment, vaccinations, and behavioral testing for each animal. From our adoption center we place all animals who can humanely and safely be adopted…
$5,565,027 spent$2,144,704 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,565,027.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4.8M to $7.1M (+49%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Brad Blackburn
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $119k → $633k.
28 of 145 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 145 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
ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
66% 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 ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 33% · 2019 37% · 2020 23% · 2021 19% · 2022 28% · 2023 24% — broadly stable.
“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
55% of ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
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
ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 31 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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.
Against its field
ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC?
- ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,723,658 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($856,327). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 145 organizations giving $5,723,658 in grants to ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC?
- PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $856,327 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 145 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