Ohio · Nonprofit
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY (Ohio) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,364,630 to it, the largest being THE CYNTHIA PARKER MATTHEWS FAMILY FOUND FKA MATTHEWS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,025,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Humane Society of Summit County does
Mission
Humane Society of Summit County serves our community by caring and advocating for vulnerable animals and enriching the lives of pets and people
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Since 1968, the Humane Society of Summit County (hssc) has been the trusted caretaker and advocate for their community's victims of animal abuse, neglect, abandonment, and stray animals suffering from illness and injury. The organization employs two full-time humane officers who respond to emergency calls, investigate animal cruelty, and, as warranted, prosecute offenders. Hssc protects and cares for their community's discarded, abused, and forgotten animals. We strive every day to rehabilitate our rescued animals, find them great homes, and provide them with bright futures.once an animal has been rescued, not only do they receive shelter, proper nutrition, and a clean and safe environment, but also necessary medical treatment and procedures, behavioral assessment training, socialization, and kindness from dedicated hssc staff and volunteers.in 2024. We rescued 1,860 animals, and adopted 1,620 animals into their forever homes. Our shelter veterinarian performed 1,155 spay/nueters, 225 other surgeries, and 16,349 exams. 28,220 pounds of pet food were distributed and 1,734 students participated in classroom programming. 316 volunteers donated 12,144 hours of service and 279 families…
$3,543,688 spent$256,447 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,543,688.
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 $17M to $26M (+53%).
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 10% · 2022 3% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 8 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
Diane Treier
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $180k → $1.0M.
19 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $79k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Humane Society of Summit County Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY raised.
From the IRS filings of HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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 SUMMIT COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 SUMMIT COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 31% · 2019 27% · 2020 35% · 2021 35% · 2022 44% · 2023 39% — 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
54% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY'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
91% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 SUMMIT COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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
- Happy Tails Thrift Shop LLC · disregarded
- Humane Society of Summit County Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY?
- HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY (Ohio) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,364,630 to it, the largest being THE CYNTHIA PARKER MATTHEWS FAMILY FOUND FKA MATTHEWS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,025,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $5,364,630 in grants to HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY?
- THE CYNTHIA PARKER MATTHEWS FAMILY FOUND FKA MATTHEWS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,025,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 90 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