Maryland · Nonprofit
HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED
HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED (Maryland) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,377,574 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($526,816). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Humane Society of Washington County Incorporated does
Mission
The humane society of washington county exists to improve the quality of life for all animals through education, legislation, action and leadership. We strive to eliminate overpopulation and to foster an environment of respect, responsibility, and compassion.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Animal control - enforcement of washington county animal control ordinance and all support services necessary.
$1,650,621 spent$2,350,000 earned by the program56% of program spendingHumane services - enforcement of md animal laws, adoption, temporary housing of animals surrendered by owners, euthanasia public assist program, volunteer programs, membership and special events, lost & found and education.
$1,306,728 spent$358,484 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,957,349.
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 2022 to 2023, from $7.0M to $9.7M (+39%).
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 11% · 2022 3% · 2023 5% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED’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. 4 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.
Chief executive
Colin Berry
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $63k → $263k.
6 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 30% · 2019 41% · 2020 55% · 2021 55% · 2022 51% · 2023 34% — broadly stable.
“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
39% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
63% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED'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 $503k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $874k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED's revenue grew 79% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Humane Society of Wash Cty Holding LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED?
- HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED (Maryland) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,377,574 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($526,816). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,377,574 in grants to HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $526,816 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 32 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