Oregon · Nonprofit
HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON
HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,055,078 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($195,848). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What Humane Society of Central Oregon does
Mission
Humane Society of Central Oregon (hsco) is a nonprofit organization that provides care for lost, surrendered, and abandoned companion animals throughout central oregon. Hsco provides holistic and compassionate care for every animal entering our shelter. This includes comprehensive veterinary care, behavioral support, enrichment activities, and individualized care for each animal's needs. Hsco also offers proactive resources for families in our community that prevent animals from having to come to the shelter, like accessible spay/neuter and vaccine services, and free pet food. We partner with county and city governments to offer humane shelter services for law enforcement agencies and are the only shelter in the entire central oregon region that offers regular owner surrender services to the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Animal shelter: hsco serves a vital need throughout central oregon communities by offering comprehensive companion animal services including: receiving stray and abandoned animals, owner surrenders, and completing court ordered holds.
$2,364,831 spent$500,801 earned by the program67% of program spendingHsco ended 2024 with a 92% live release rate, in part, by connecting 1,342 animals with loving, adoptive homes and working diligently to return 669 lost pets to their families. All animals that are adopted from hsco are spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped prior to going home and often they receive specialized veterinary care and treatments, depending on their individual needs. In addition to traditional shelter services, the hsco veterinary outreach program works to connect pet owners in central oregon with lifesaving veterinary care for their beloved family pets.
$450,455 spent13% of program spendingThrift store: the hsco thrift store receives donated items such as clothes, household items, jewelry, and vehicles from the community on a daily basis. These items are carefully sorted, priced, and made ready for re-sale by our dedicated staff and volunteers. The net proceeds from the thrift store are used to fund vital shelter operations, making this program critical to the ongoing financial sustainability of the hsco. The hsco thrift store also supports our adoption program by housing available small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, etc.) and adopting them to loving families directly from the store.
$708,584 spent$110,467 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,523,870.
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 $8.2M to $9.5M (+16%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 10% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Amber Kostoff
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $34k → $145k.
11 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON’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 SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
65% 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 SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 34% · 2019 24% · 2020 17% · 2021 33% · 2022 18% · 2023 35% — 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
46% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
61% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON'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 $409k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $646k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON's revenue grew 67% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON?
- HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,055,078 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($195,848). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,055,078 in grants to HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $195,848 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing