Tennessee · Nonprofit
HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC
HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,048,410 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($220,885). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What Humane Educational Society of Chattanooga Tennessee Inc does
Mission
Humane educational society is a nonprofit animal shelter that provides a safe haven for homeless, neglected, and abused animals in unincorporated hamilton county, soddy daisy, collegedale, and walden.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our adoption program is successful in that we adopted out, transported, or reunited 2,757 animals from our facility. We have maintained a live release rate of 91.02%. Hes raises funds for general operations and funds for our special needs program. General funds are used in standard care for animals including spay/neuter surgeries, vaccinations, and physical exams for each animal. Special needs provides care for animals needing heartworm treatment, emergency surgery, or non-standard care treatments.
$3,168,632 spent$1,657,470 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,168,632.
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 $3.2M to $13M (+292%).
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: 2017 49% · 2018 46% · 2019 32% · 2020 25% · 2021 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $244k → $132k.
14 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
68% 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 HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 28% · 2019 54% · 2020 36% · 2021 43% · 2022 21% · 2023 42% — 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
41% of HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $390k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC's revenue grew 67% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC?
- HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,048,410 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($220,885). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,048,410 in grants to HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC?
- PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $220,885 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 40 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