Florida · Nonprofit
JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,068,341 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($3,032,909). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 138
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $35M
What Jacksonville Humane Society Inc does
Mission
The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Shelter & pet help center services: jhs is the largest animal welfare nonprofit in our region. In 2024, jhs took in more than 8000 homeless dogs and cats: 2351 adult dogs, 428 puppies, 1327 adult cats and 4455 kittens. Jhs believes in keeping pets and people together. Our safety net resource program provides free and low-cost services to struggling pet owners to ensure that pets can stay happy, healthy and at home. These services include, but are not limited to, veterinary care, pet food, behavior help, supplies, medication, and emergency boarding. Jhs provides all the veterinary care at our clinic. In 2024, 4,999 families were served in partnership with a local human-resource service provided by lutheran social services.
$6,572,335 spent$8,127,792 earned by the program100% of program spendingJhs has a successful volunteer program. In 2024, volunteers provided 24,851 hours of service for our organization. Among these volunteers are our students from the north florida school of special education and the jacksonville school for autism. Jhs also has a unique program with students from frank h. Peterson high school to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the field of veterinary sciences. Jhs has a thriving education program for children. In 2024, 3,144 children participated in our camps, field trips and reading program. One of our most popular programs is pawsitive reading, where children read to dogs and cats to strengthen literacy skills while helping put animals at ease in the shelter setting.
Florida leaders in lifesaving: jhs is a no-kill shelter and we work in partnership with our municipal city shelter, animal care and protective services, to strive towards making jacksonville a no kill community. In 2024, 89% of the animals who entered a shelter in jacksonville left alive. The jacksonville humane society's (florida) leaders in lifesaving program provides training and support to animal welfare organizations throughout the state of florida while inspiring collaborative solutions that engage the hearts, hands and minds of local communities to unite and save the lives of shelter animals. According to the most recent data for 2024, 353,582 pets entered florida shelters, 310,042 left alive and 41,507 did not. The jacksonville humane society (jhs) is dedicated to changing this and decreasing shelter deaths by continuing our statewide effort to unite, inspire and engage communities to create solutions that save lives. Our program, florida leaders in lifesaving, will accomplish this by decreasing intake, increasing live outcomes and supporting community needs. Jhs knows from our experience in turning jacksonville into a lifesaving community that success comes from…
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,572,335.
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 2020 to 2021, from $30M to $33M (+10%).
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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Lawrence Nicolas
CEO
Board chair
Sean Lueck
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 67 funders, grant income rose $726k → $3.3M.
23 of 138 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 138 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
JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 33% · 2019 32% · 2020 43% · 2021 29% · 2022 31% · 2023 34% — 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
46% of JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $7k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC?
- JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,068,341 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($3,032,909). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 138 organizations giving $18,068,341 in grants to JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC, 92 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $3,032,909 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 138 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