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BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC

BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,766 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($210,518). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.9M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$541k
Net assets
$6.6M
7/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Bristol Humane Society Inc does

Mission

To provide low-cost spay/neuter surgery and general veterinary care for dogs and cats of southwest virginia and northeast tennessee.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide spay and neuter services to the counties of buchanan, dickenson, lee, russell, scott, smyth, tazewell, washington, and wise; the cities of brisol and norton, virginia; and the city of brisol and county of sullivan in tennessee. However, animals are accepted from other counties as availability permits.

    $2,089,671 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,089,671.

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 ($827k) Expenses 100 ($877k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 120 ($995k) Expenses 115 ($1.0M) Net assets 97 ($990k)2019 Revenue 144 ($1.2M) Expenses 130 ($1.1M) Net assets 103 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 111 ($920k) Expenses 113 ($988k) Net assets 97 ($987k)2021 Revenue 136 ($1.1M) Expenses 139 ($1.2M) Net assets 113 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 175 ($1.4M) Expenses 169 ($1.5M) Net assets 128 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 227 ($1.9M) Expenses 208 ($1.8M) Net assets 134 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 433 ($3.6M) Expenses 232 ($2.0M) Net assets 288 ($2.9M)2025 Revenue 712 ($5.9M) Expenses 253 ($2.2M) Net assets 649 ($6.6M)
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Revenue (712)Expenses (253)Net assets (649)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 2024 to 2025, from $3.0M to $6.7M (+125%).

$1.0M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$3.0M
$6.7M
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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

61% of BRISTOL 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. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$50k
’17
−$12k
’18
$52k
’19
−$68k
’20
−$96k
’21
−$35k
’22
$56k
’23
$1.5M
’24
$3.7M
’25
16
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.

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Listed544444555
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·10000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $68k.

3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

85% 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 BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC.

39%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 79% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 44% · 2022 91% · 2023 74% — 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

43% of BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 7 states in all.

WA
NY
VA
AZ
TN
DC
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin62% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

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

Organizations like BRISTOL 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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 5%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
60%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC?
BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,766 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($210,518). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $540,766 in grants to BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC?
PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $210,518 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 14 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