Missouri · Nonprofit
HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI
HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 166 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,932,357 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH PARRISH CHARITABLE TRUST ($6,217,795). 119 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 166
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $147M
What Humane Society of Missouri does
Mission
Prevention of cruelty, abuse and neglect of animals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Medical centers - the society's medical centers provide a wide variety of veterinary services. In addition to the treatment of routine injuries and illness, wellness care, low cost/no cost spay/neuter, physical therapy and extensive surgical care are provided. There were a total of 28,076 client visits during fiscal year 2025.
$9,315,302 spent$7,773,692 earned by the program44% of program spendingAdoption centers - formerly-owned or abandoned pets are given a second chance to find loving homes through the society's adoption centers. The health and temperament of each animal is extensively evaluated prior to being placed for adoption. Great efforts are made to match adoptable animals with potential owners utilizing a pre-adoption questionnaire. This process helps the society determine that an animal will be placed in a loving home. The society experiences the highest volume of incoming animals and adoptions in metro st. Louis with services at three locations. There were a total of 9,930 animals served during fiscal year 2025.
$7,474,681 spent$1,224,596 earned by the program35% of program spendingAnimal cruelty taskforce - the society is the only humane organization in missouri to provide comprehensive investigative and emergency rescue services for animals statewide. Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, humane officers from the animal cruelty taskforce (act) respond to complaints of animal cruelty or abuse. A significant number require emergency medical assistance or dramatic rescue efforts. The act staff members are trained at law enforcement academies and work in tandem with area police departments to assist and expedite the legal system. There were a total of 18,331 animals served during fiscal year 2025.
$1,867,585 spent$319 earned by the program9% of program spending1. Longmeadow rescue ranch - longmeadow rescue ranch is one of the largest facilities in the country for the rehabilitation of starving, neglected and abused horses and farm animals. This facility is utilized to temporarily foster the animals impounded as evidence by the society's animal cruelty taskforce and law enforcement agencies. This program allows the mistreated animals to be rehabilitated while awaiting adoption placement. Clients served: 6,290.2. Education - the education office is responsible for providing training for people on pet-related topics focused on developing attitudes of respect and responsibility. The humane education helps the society impact the community. Clients served: 21,662.3. Volunteer programs - the volunteer office is responsible for the placement of volunteers into such programs as daily dog walkers and gift shop volunteers and to foster animals in their homes. The office also places volunteers in the adoption centers, medical centers and longmeadow rescue ranch. 1,500 volunteers in database.4. Community programs - community programs include spay/neuter services, care of abused, sick or injured animals, foster programs, and other services provided…
$2,662,176 spent$401,507 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,319,744.
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 $96M to $118M (+23%).
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% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Ryan Hyman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 43 funders to 94 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $3.9M.
21 of 166 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 MISSOURI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 166 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 MISSOURI has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
40% 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 MISSOURI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 43% · 2019 38% · 2020 37% · 2021 38% · 2022 27% · 2023 26% — 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
71% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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 SOCIETY OF MISSOURI draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 MISSOURI runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 134 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 134 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Perpetual Trusts (6) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI?
- HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 166 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,932,357 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH PARRISH CHARITABLE TRUST ($6,217,795). 119 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI have?
- IRS filings report 166 organizations giving $25,932,357 in grants to HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI, 119 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI?
- ELIZABETH PARRISH CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $6,217,795 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 166 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