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Humane Society of Putnam County Inc

Humane Society of Putnam County Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,330 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($158,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$333k
Net assets
$0
6/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Humane Society of Putnam County Inc does

Mission

Spay and neuter services

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.

  1. The Humane Society of Putnam County, Inc. (the Society) purpose is to educate the public and promote the benefits of spaying and neutering animals. The mission of the Society is to provide a non-lethal, responsible solution to pet overpopulation in the fourteen counties of the Upper Cumberland region. The Society provides affordable spaying and neutering services to surrounding regions and subsidizes services with grants and donations for those who cannot afford the services provided. The Society's support comes primarily from providing spaying and neutering services, grants, and individual donors' contributions.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $619.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($372k) Expenses 100 ($328k) Net assets 100 ($174k)2018 Revenue 102 ($379k) Expenses 112 ($369k) Net assets 106 ($184k)2019 Revenue 121 ($448k) Expenses 132 ($434k) Net assets 114 ($198k)2020 Revenue 125 ($465k) Expenses 118 ($389k) Net assets 157 ($274k)2021 Revenue 94 ($348k) Expenses 117 ($383k) Net assets 137 ($240k)2022 Revenue 126 ($468k) Expenses 151 ($497k) Net assets 120 ($210k)2023 Revenue 1 ($4k) Expenses 14 ($45k) Net assets 52 ($90k)2024 Revenue 1 ($2k) Expenses 0 ($619) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (1)Expenses (0)Net assets (0)

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 $246k to $90k (−64%).

$184k
$189k
$205k
$289k
$248k
$246k
$90k
$0
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
’17
$10k
’18
$14k
’19
$76k
’20
−$35k
’21
−$30k
’22
−$40k
’23
$2k
’24
24
months of
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.

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Listed55555441
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0·
No longer listed·000010·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $57k → $15k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Putnam County Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 Putnam County Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

69% 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 Putnam County Inc.

48%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 80% · 2019 78% · 2020 30% · 2021 52% · 2022 79% · 2023 97% — 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

29% of Humane Society of Putnam County Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 Putnam County Inc draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 6 states in all.

MI
PA
AZ
TN
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Humane Society of Putnam County 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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

0
board members
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

TN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Humane Society of Putnam County 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 Putnam County Inc?
Humane Society of Putnam County Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,330 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($158,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Humane Society of Putnam County Inc have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $333,330 in grants to Humane Society of Putnam County Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Humane Society of Putnam County Inc?
PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $158,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Humane Society of Putnam County Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 8 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