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Franklin County Humane Society

Franklin County Humane Society (Vermont) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,825 to it, the largest being ELBERT S BRIGHAM TRUST XXX-XX-XXXX ($69,985). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$558k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$166k
Net assets
$1.0M
7/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Franklin County Humane Society does

Mission

Franklin County Humane Society dba Franklin County Animal Rescue (FCAR)promotes the health, welfare, and humane treatment of animal in Northwestern Vermont and provides temporary shelter for them with the goal of finding them good, permanent homes within the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Franklin County Animal Rescue (FCAR) is the only shelter in almost 900 square miles of northwestern Vermont. A shelters live release rate is the recognized gold standard of a shelters lifesaving work. The outcomes achieved for dogs and cats at Franklin County Animal Rescue exceed Vermont and national averages for six straight years. Franklin County Animal Rescues performance since 2017 ranges from 95% to 98% live release, based on data from the national Shelter Animals Count database and Best Friends Animal Society. Thats far above the 90% save rate considered no kill. Community support is strong as demonstrated by more than 64 active volunteers; more than 1,000 annual donors and among the Top 10 Facebook communities in Franklin County. Franklin County Animal Rescue also was selected as a beneciary of community fundraising including the Running of the Bells, Haddad Subaru, and others. Franklin County Animal Rescue has ended the past five years in the black and has reserves equal to a year of operational costs.

    $228,999 spent$47,249 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $228,999.

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 ($383k) Expenses 100 ($381k) Net assets 100 ($443k)2018 Revenue 68 ($260k) Expenses 69 ($261k) Net assets 100 ($443k)2019 Revenue 60 ($229k) Expenses 79 ($301k) Net assets 84 ($371k)2020 Revenue 101 ($386k) Expenses 65 ($246k) Net assets 115 ($511k)2021 Revenue 49 ($188k) Expenses 52 ($196k) Net assets 113 ($503k)2022 Revenue 69 ($266k) Expenses 53 ($203k) Net assets 128 ($566k)2023 Revenue 58 ($222k) Expenses 54 ($207k) Net assets 131 ($581k)2024 Revenue 96 ($368k) Expenses 64 ($244k) Net assets 160 ($706k)2025 Revenue 146 ($558k) Expenses 72 ($273k) Net assets 226 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (146)Expenses (72)Net assets (226)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 2020 to 2021, from $808k to $503k (−38%).

$751k
$734k
$654k
$808k
$503k
$566k
$581k
$706k
$1.0M
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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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 15% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of Franklin County Humane Society’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’17
−$372
’18
−$71k
’19
$140k
’20
−$9k
’21
$64k
’22
$15k
’23
$124k
’24
$285k
’25
26
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.

Chief executive

Jennifer Dean

Executive Director

Board chair

Betsy Liley

Chair/President

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1418111088544
Joined·+9+3+3+3+2+1+0+0
No longer listed·510452410
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $41k → $41k.

4 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 Franklin 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

Franklin County Humane Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

42%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 56% · 2019 84% · 2020 48% · 2021 81% · 2022 41% · 2023 61% — 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

33% of Franklin County Humane Society'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+6y

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

Franklin County Humane Society draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 6 states in all.

VT
NH
MI
NY
RI
SC

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

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Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Franklin County Humane Society runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin51% · top quartile
Months of reserve25.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Franklin County Humane Society receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13k on record.

State$13k
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Top programs
  • Other Purchased Services$13k

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 Franklin County Humane Society

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 10%Fundraising 6%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

64%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Franklin County Humane Society?
Franklin County Humane Society (Vermont) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,825 to it, the largest being ELBERT S BRIGHAM TRUST XXX-XX-XXXX ($69,985). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Franklin County Humane Society have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $165,825 in grants to Franklin County Humane Society, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Franklin County Humane Society?
ELBERT S BRIGHAM TRUST XXX-XX-XXXX is the largest funder on record, with $69,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Franklin County Humane Society find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing