Delaware · Nonprofit
DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION
DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION (Delaware) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,267,829 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($889,487). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $708k
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What Delaware Humane Association does
Mission
Founded in 1957, Delaware Humane Association (dha) is delaware's premier nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. We are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. We make "friends for life" by connecting people with animals and by building strong relationships to better serve our community.humane animal partners was established in 2022 when Delaware Humane Association and delaware spca merged.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Spay/neuter services:dha spays and neuters all animals prior to adoption. If needed these services are offered to members of the community at a low cost.humane animal partners was established in 2022 when Delaware Humane Association and delaware spca merged.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 2022 to 2023, from $9.3M to $4.4M (−53%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 12% · 2024 10% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Patrick Carroll
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $191k → $253k.
8 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 47% · 2019 46% · 2020 32% · 2021 49% · 2022 39% · 2023 58% — 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
52% of DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
56% of DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION'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 $991k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside Delaware, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION 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
Government funding DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $214k on record.
- GRANTS IN AID$200k
- VETERINARIAN SERVICES$14k
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 DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Humane Animal Partners · exempt
- Delaware Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION: 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 DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION?
- DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION (Delaware) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,267,829 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($889,487). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,267,829 in grants to DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION?
- DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $889,487 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 42 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