Wisconsin · Nonprofit
COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,618 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($79,184). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $613k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Columbia County Humane Society does
Mission
Protection of animals/human education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We accept animals through stray intake (108 in 2025), owner surrenders (61 in 2025), and transfers from other shelters (63 in 2025). Our role is to provide safe, temporary housing for unwanted and stray animals while ensuring they receive appropriate medical care and behavioral support. This benefits the community by reducing the number of at-large animals through providing strays with a safe place to go rather than remaining loose or vulnerable. It also helps support overburdened shelters by accepting animal transfers, which alleviates overcrowding and reduces euthanasia pressures at larger facilities. In addition, the organization assists community members who can no longer care for their pets by offering responsible rehoming options that help prevent abandonment. Through these efforts, we work to match animals with permanent, loving families, improve public safety, and strengthen the overall animal welfare network throughout our region.
$386,282 spent$103,768 earned by the program82% of program spendingBibi fund created by cchs to ensure every animal has a fair chance at adoption, the bibi fund supports pets requiring specialized veterinary care. These funds make it possible to provide life changing procedures including dentals, amputations, eye removals, and tumor removals. In 2025, community generosity contributed $12,224 in donations and $12,166 through auction proceeds, allowing us to invest $8,418 in medical treatment for animals whose needs are not individually itemized but deeply meaningful.
$84,148 spent$12,224 earned by the program18% of program spendingTrap neuter return (tnr) is an effective, humane method for reducing the number of free roaming cats and improving public safety through rabies vaccination. Columbia county residents who have feral cats on their property can contact cchs to arrange spay/neuter services and rabies vaccinations through our veterinary partners. Residents humanely trap the cats and bring them to one of our partnering veterinarians, where each cat is sterilized, vaccinated, and ear tippeda small notch in the left ear that identifies the cat as already altered. After treatment, the cats are returned to their original location. In 2025, forty one cats participated in the tnr program. Tnr offers many benefits. It prevents the birth of additional unwanted litters, reduces the overall number of free roaming cats, and significantly decreases nuisance behaviors such as spraying, yowling, and fighting.
$2,275 spent$11,311 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $472,705.
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 2019 to 2020, from $992k to $1.3M (+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: 2019 2% · 2020 7% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $21k → $19k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY’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
COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 51% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 80% · 2022 50% · 2023 69% — 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
50% of COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
77% of COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $41k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $139k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY?
- COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,618 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($79,184). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $180,618 in grants to COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $79,184 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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