New Jersey · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC
ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,964,648 to it, the largest being DOROTHY FIELDER BROWN IRREVOCABLE TR ($2,266,137). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Associated Humane Societies Inc does
Mission
Associated humane societies, (ahs), is the largest animal sheltering organization in new jersey and is also home to popcorn park, located at our ahs-lacey branch. Popcorn park was established in 1977 and is a sanctuary for abused, neglected, and/or abandoned animals of all breeds and sizes, including wildlife, farm animals, and exotic animals. Our three animal shelter facilities located in newark, tinton falls, and forked river, provide animal control services to more towns than any animal shelter in the state. We are an open door facility and do not turn away any animal regardless of their age, breed, or medical/emotional issues. We pride ourselves on the high level of care that we provide to the hundreds of animals that call our facility home while they are awaiting adoption. We have full-service veterinary clinics that are open to the public and provide our communities with top-notch, professional veterinary services for personal pets, and also operate a mobile veterinary unit that
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Shelter facilities - the associated humane societies, (ahs), strongly believes that wild animals should live free and uncaged. Popcorn park located at our ahs-lacey facility was established in 1977 for the sole purpose of providing a refuge to sick, injured, permanently disabled, abandoned, elderly, and un-releasable wildlife, farm animals, and exotic animals that would be unable to survive on their own. Popcorn park takes in animals from all over the world such as a three-legged fox from kuwait, a blind bengal tiger from a maryland zoo, and patas monkeys from a research lab, to name a few. No animal is ever purchased or bred. Every animal that comes to popcorn park is housed in a habitat that is specifically designed to feel much like their native home. Visitors are welcome at popcorn park to view these animals and read the stories of how they came to live at the refuge. Zoo veterinarians are on staff to provide the popcorn park residents with medical care and wellness checks and if there is ever extensive medical care that an animal needs that cannot be provided on-site, arrangements are made for the animal to be transported to a specialty hospital that can provide that care.
$6,802,652 spent$350,570 earned by the program67% of program spendingClinic - the veterinary clinics treat injured and sick animals on both a free and paying basis, as well as providing medical care to the animals at our shelter facilities. The clinics are staffed by multiple veterinarians and support staff, and treat 50 to 100 animals or more per week. In addition to providing veterinary services for the public, the clinics also hold events that contribute to the well-being of animals in our communities such as feral cat spay/neuter days and personal pet microchipping events. Our mobile veterinary unit travels to various lower income towns and offers spay/neuter services and wellness visits for those resident's pets. Our shelter veterinarians treat the hundreds of animals that are awaiting adoption and in some cases, provide extensive medical treatment to those animals that are the victims of extreme abuse and neglect. The shelter veterinarians also determine when an animal is in need of specialty care, and make arrangements with outside facilities to provide such care. They ensure that all pets are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped prior to being adopted.
$2,432,485 spent$681,423 earned by the program24% of program spendingAnimal control - the ahs is contracted with several towns throughout new jersey to answer the calls of stray animals, free roaming animals, and injured animals, both domestic and wild. Ahs employs multiple animal control officers, (aco), that work round the clock to go out on these calls and rescue animals in distress. Our aco's often work with law enforcement organizations on cases involving the inhumane treatment of an animal and are responsible for removing those animals from abusive or neglectful situations and bringing them to the safety of our facilities.
$905,186 spent$2,429,898 earned by the program9% of program spendingThe ahs prides itself on our involvement with educating the public on cruelty prevention and humane treatment of all animals. We provide speakers for various venues such as schools and libraries, where we encourage the public to be involved with the animal community and promote spay/neuter of pets and humane treatment of animals. We publish a regularly scheduled booklet titled the humane news, which is distributed to thousands of homes throughout the country and is also available online. This booklet features animal stories from around the world, both humane and inhumane. It features articles on our recent achievements that we have made through rescuing animals, and is geared toward influencing people to adopt pets rather than purchasing them, treating all animals with kindness and respect, and speaking up on behalf of an animal in crisis. The booklet also features animals at all of our facilities that are available for adoption and recent news on our animals that reside at popcorn park. In addition to the humane news, we also utilize social media to spread the message of humane treatment of animals and adopting your pets, as well as operating a website where all of the…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,140,323.
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 2020 to 2021, from $7.5M to $10.0M (+33%).
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 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (67% 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.
Chief executive
Jerome Rosenthal
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $45k → $1.1M.
14 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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
ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 30% · 2019 42% · 2020 40% · 2021 41% · 2022 50% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.
“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
53% of ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 134 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 134 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7k on record.
- STATE AID$6k
- TRUST FUND$820
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$180
- DEDICATED$40
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC?
- ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,964,648 to it, the largest being DOROTHY FIELDER BROWN IRREVOCABLE TR ($2,266,137). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $5,964,648 in grants to ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC?
- DOROTHY FIELDER BROWN IRREVOCABLE TR is the largest funder on record, with $2,266,137 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 78 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