California · Nonprofit
HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY
HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,792,607 to it, the largest being LUNDGREN CAROLYN C TUW ($1,821,790). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 125
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $45M
What Humane Society of Ventura County does
Mission
humane and ethical treatment of animals
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
The Humane Society of Ventura County provides the following services to the entire ventura county area:care and shelter for homeless animals awaiting adoption, investigation of cases of animal abuse and neglect, education programs through pet care presentations, monthly visits with pet-assisted therapy programs, disaster and rescue services in emergencies, financial assistance for medical care and pet food for needy families and quality pet merchandise at affordable prices. The humane society gave approximately 98% of every dollar contributed to the programs directly benefiting the welfare of animals.
$2,687,495 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,687,495.
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 2021 to 2022, from $27M to $43M (+60%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 28 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $159k → $576k.
22 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 VENTURA COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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 VENTURA 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
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 VENTURA COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 14% · 2019 43% · 2020 44% · 2021 60% · 2022 46% · 2023 41% — 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
11% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% 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 VENTURA COUNTY draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 VENTURA COUNTY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,431 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 VENTURA COUNTY?
- HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,792,607 to it, the largest being LUNDGREN CAROLYN C TUW ($1,821,790). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $4,792,607 in grants to HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY?
- LUNDGREN CAROLYN C TUW is the largest funder on record, with $1,821,790 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 125 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