Indiana · Nonprofit
HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS
HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS (Indiana) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,489,285 to it, the largest being MARY POWELL CRUME TRUST ($3,444,894). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 109
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Humane Society of Indianapolis does
Mission
Indyhumane's mission is to improve animal welfare in central indiana. We are committed to ending the cycle of pet overpopulation, providing affordable pet ownership, and ensuring the well-being, health and safety of all animals in our care. We strive to promote the human animal bond and the powerful impact this mutually beneficial relationship has on individuals, families and the indianapolis community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Companion animal care: we provide shelter, veterinary care and adoption services to homeless dogs and cats; we operate an extensive foster program for pets needing extraordinary care due to age, health or behavior needs; we offer low cost vaccine clinics at 2 stationary locations.
$5,841,525 spent$1,811,722 earned by the program81% of program spendingOutreach/education: targeting our efforts in 10 underserviced zip codes, we provide outreach via the pet awareness wagon and our exceptional outreach staff. We are available to participate in school presentations, provide resources in our community at special events, and host a summer day camp for children and teens.
$0 spent0% of program spendingLow cost spay/neuter surgery: targeting 10 zip codes in our city, indyhumane offers low cost, high volume surgery to all pet owners. Our organization has helped lower intake at our municipal shelter by working with the neighborhoods where unwanted litters overwhelm pet owners. We offer special programming for community cats, tnr resources and a transport program for owners without the ability to access our clinic.
$0 spent$859,987 earned by the program0% of program spendingThe Humane Society of Indianapolis partnered with chewy.com to distribute pet food and supplies valued at over $2 million to shelters and rescues across thirty-seven indiana counties and six states.
$1,344,595 spent19% of program spendingModeling a pet resource center after other successful programs in other states, the pet resource center will support keeping pets in the home and/or delaying intake for someone who may be releasing pets into our care until such time as it is reasonable to take the pets into custody. Indyhumane's pet resource center will provide judgment-free, empathetic, equitable support and solutions that include: 1) access to free food through indyhumane's downtown pantry 2) access to free vaccines, preventatives, and other medical care as needed 3) financial support to assist with rental security deposits 4) free pet supplies, crates, fencing, other pet equipment 5) access to sites like rehome and other self-rehoming pet sites 6) collaboration and referrals to local partners like fido and indycares that offer specialized solutions for pet owners (fencing, expanded medical support, etc.) 7) pet training and behavior resources
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,186,120.
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 2019 to 2020, from $5.2M to $6.5M (+25%).
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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS’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. 7 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
Donna R Casamento
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Brooke Crosley
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $526k → $996k.
18 of 109 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 INDIANAPOLIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 109 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 INDIANAPOLIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 INDIANAPOLIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 60% · 2019 36% · 2020 51% · 2021 53% · 2022 35% · 2023 41% — 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 SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
83% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 INDIANAPOLIS's funding base is broadening — from 31 funders to 49 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS
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 Indiana
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
71%
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
- The Mary Powell Crume Trust · exempt
- Indyhumane Endowment Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS?
- HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS (Indiana) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,489,285 to it, the largest being MARY POWELL CRUME TRUST ($3,444,894). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS have?
- IRS filings report 109 organizations giving $7,489,285 in grants to HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS?
- MARY POWELL CRUME TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,444,894 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 109 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