Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA
HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,994,329 to it, the largest being NANCY SHEAFFER ($647,546). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Humane Pennsylvania does
Mission
Humane Pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Shelter operations: the organization offers temporary shelter to animals in need, provides adoption services for thousands of animals, and emergency and disaster relief regionally and nationally. In 2024, spike's pet food pantry distributed almost 500,000 pounds of food to clients in berks and lancaster. Humane also started affordable boarding services in the spring of 2024 at both reading and lancaster facilities in line with our mission to provide meaningful access to services for the communities we serve.
$1,408,015 spent$350,468 earned by the program31% of program spendingClinic/veterinary operations: the organization provides affordable veterinary services. Humane pa's healthy pets initiative provides free microchip identification, preventative vaccinations, sterilization services, pet food support and emergency safety net programs, to up to over 20,000 recipients in its primary service areas of berks and lancaster counties. Humane pa continued the weekly walk-in clinic service model for vaccination, wellness care and spay and neuter clinics.
$3,055,030 spent$2,237,534 earned by the program68% of program spendingShelter support programs: assists other organizations with training, financial stability and operations.
$22,880 spent$760 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,485,925.
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 2021 to 2022, from $15M to $13M (−15%).
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 14% · 2021 12% · 2022 3% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Karel Minor
Chief executive officer; ex-officio
Board chair
Karen Linder
Chair thru april
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $24k → $326k.
10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Humane Pennsylvania Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA raised.
From the IRS filings of HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 PENNSYLVANIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
32% 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 PENNSYLVANIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 54% · 2019 43% · 2020 48% · 2021 53% · 2022 36% · 2023 39% — 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
63% of HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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 PENNSYLVANIA draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $604k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 PENNSYLVANIA's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Humane Pennsylvania Foundation · exempt
- Animal Welfare Management Services LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA: 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 HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA?
- HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,994,329 to it, the largest being NANCY SHEAFFER ($647,546). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,994,329 in grants to HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA?
- NANCY SHEAFFER is the largest funder on record, with $647,546 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 38 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