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HUMANE SOCIETY OF UNION COUNTY INC

HUMANE SOCIETY OF UNION COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $672,107 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($230,224). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$672k
Net assets
$801k
13/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Humane Society of Union County Inc does

Mission

The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Prevention and education of animal cruelty; Assist, promote and encourage the humane treatment and welfare of animals; Reduce number of homeless and abandoned pets by providing affordable spay/neuter options to residents.

    $1,704,224 spent$1,529,015 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,704,224.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($618k) Expenses 100 ($554k) Net assets 100 ($271k)2018 Revenue 136 ($843k) Expenses 120 ($665k) Net assets 166 ($449k)2019 Revenue 130 ($803k) Expenses 145 ($802k) Net assets 166 ($450k)2020 Revenue 184 ($1.1M) Expenses 198 ($1.1M) Net assets 183 ($494k)2021 Revenue 183 ($1.1M) Expenses 213 ($1.2M) Net assets 164 ($445k)2022 Revenue 215 ($1.3M) Expenses 215 ($1.2M) Net assets 222 ($601k)2023 Revenue 307 ($1.9M) Expenses 320 ($1.8M) Net assets 268 ($725k)2024 Revenue 278 ($1.7M) Expenses 329 ($1.8M) Net assets 230 ($622k)2025 Revenue 341 ($2.1M) Expenses 348 ($1.9M) Net assets 296 ($801k)
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Revenue (341)Expenses (348)Net assets (296)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $500k to $1.2M (+147%).

$280k
$465k
$472k
$539k
$500k
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.3M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2020 6% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

27% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF UNION COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,657 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$65k
’17
$178k
’18
$2k
’19
$44k
’20
−$50k
’21
$136k
’22
$124k
’23
−$104k
’24
$179k
’25
2.7
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.

Board chair

Benjamin Hau

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $2k → $216k.

8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 UNION 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 UNION COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

88% 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 UNION COUNTY INC.

34%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 49% · 2019 65% · 2020 32% · 2021 91% · 2022 66% · 2023 38% — 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

33% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF UNION COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

80% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF UNION COUNTY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $137k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 9 states.

WA
WI
MI
NY
CA
MO
TN
NC
DC

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $535k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HUMANE SOCIETY OF UNION COUNTY INC has grown faster than half of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · below the median
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 10%Fundraising 1%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 UNION COUNTY INC?
HUMANE SOCIETY OF UNION COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $672,107 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($230,224). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HUMANE SOCIETY OF UNION COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $672,107 in grants to HUMANE SOCIETY OF UNION COUNTY INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HUMANE SOCIETY OF UNION COUNTY INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $230,224 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HUMANE SOCIETY OF UNION COUNTY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 23 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