North Carolina · Nonprofit
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,967,655 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($2,646,868). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 125
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Humane Society of Charlotte Inc does
Mission
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide care and placement services for homeless animals. During 2025,3650 animals were sheltered and 3496 animals were adopted.
$3,734,380 spent$813,042 earned by the program59% of program spendingOperate clinics to provide low-cost spay/neuter services for dogs and cats belonging to local residents in Mecklenburg county and to partner shelters in surrounding counties. It also provides low-cost essential care services (vaccines, microchips,nail trims, etc).During 2025, 8,078 spay and neuter surgeries were performed and 7,329 patients were seen at essential care clinic
$2,036,308 spent$1,653,329 earned by the program32% of program spendingProvide community initiative programs such as foodbank and Pet Crisis Support, for the under served community. Provide humane education programs such as summer camp, reading buddies, and dog training classes.
$547,498 spent$117,353 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,318,186.
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 $22M to $25M (+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 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of Humane Society of Charlotte Inc’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. 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
Shelly Moore
CEO/President
Board chair
Tara Keener
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 46 funders, grant income fell $1.7M → $1.2M.
26 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 Charlotte Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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 Charlotte Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
78% 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 Charlotte Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 48% · 2019 30% · 2020 22% · 2021 26% · 2022 38% · 2023 20% — 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
45% of Humane Society of Charlotte Inc'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
72% of Humane Society of Charlotte Inc'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 $3.0M that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 28 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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 Charlotte Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Humane Society of Charlotte Inc
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Humane Society of Charlotte Inc: 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 Society of Charlotte Inc?
- Humane Society of Charlotte Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,967,655 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($2,646,868). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Humane Society of Charlotte Inc have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $10,967,655 in grants to Humane Society of Charlotte Inc, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Humane Society of Charlotte Inc?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $2,646,868 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Humane Society of Charlotte Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 125 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