Alabama · Nonprofit
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHELBY COUNTY
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHELBY COUNTY (Alabama) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,072,212 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($407,075). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $569k
What Humane Society of Shelby County does
Mission
To care for homeless, abused, neglected and abandoned animals and educate the community to instill an increased awareness and commitment to the responsibility of animal ownership and protection.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kennel operations- shelby humane society provides housing, shelter, and food to approximately 5,000 animals each year that are either prepared for adoption or for transport. The operations serve as a source of animal control for shelby county and animals involved in domestic violence situations.
$1,570,819 spent$74,797 earned by the program100% of program spendingMedical- provides treatment and testing for animals that require such attention when they are housed at the shelter. The treatment includes situations that arise throughout the year. Medical treatment can also include vaccinations and microchipping.
$4,619 earned by the programSpay/neuter- the spay/neuter program is a low cost spay and neuter program established in 2008. The program subsidizes surgeries for low income residents who qualify for public assistance.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,570,819.
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 2023 to 2024, from $614k to $1.1M (+86%).
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: 2017 28% · 2018 26% · 2019 21% · 2020 26% · 2021 29% · 2022 16% · 2023 16% · 2024 7% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHELBY COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Aman Kahlon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $319k → $77k.
9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 SHELBY COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 SHELBY COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 SHELBY COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 41% · 2019 74% · 2020 22% · 2021 29% · 2022 30% · 2023 54% — 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
29% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHELBY COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 SHELBY COUNTY draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $441k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 SHELBY COUNTY's revenue grew 30% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHELBY COUNTY
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHELBY COUNTY?
- HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHELBY COUNTY (Alabama) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,072,212 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($407,075). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHELBY COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,072,212 in grants to HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHELBY COUNTY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHELBY COUNTY?
- PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $407,075 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHELBY COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 34 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