Kentucky · Nonprofit
KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE
KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE (Kentucky) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,514,406 to it, the largest being THE JOANNE W GAUNTT FOUNDATION DATED ($1,440,000). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 135
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $38M
What Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue does
Mission
The kentucky humane society is a champion for companion animals, through leadership, education and proactive solutions, we are creating more compassionate communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Khs is kentucky's largest animal adoption agency, finding loving homes for 5,254 in 2025. This includes 5,034 cats, dogs, and horses who were adopted at our main campus, east campus, willow hope farm and our adoption partner, purrfect day cafe. Another 220 animals found homes through partner transfers.
$2,325,930 spent$740,036 earned by the program29% of program spendingFern creek and eastpoint pet resorts - boarding, groming, and day care of owned pets, proceeds from operations support the mission of khs and care for companion animals.
$3,150,123 spent$990,169 earned by the program40% of program spendingOur s.n.I.p. Clinic provides high-quality, low-cost spay/neuter surgeries to reduce the number of animals in shelters and remove financial barriers that may prevent caring pet owners from spaying or neutering their pet. In 2025, the s.n.I.p. Clinic performed 9,735 surgeries, 42% of which were free or discounted, including free surgeries for pit bulls to help address breeds overpopulation.
$1,908,741 spent$1,020,765 earned by the program24% of program spendingOther services include dog training for owned pets, basic veterinary care for over 5,000 owned dogs and cats, horse rescue, and a free pet help line for local pet owners. Our pet resource services served more than 5,364 pet owners in 2025, helping families keep their pets happy, healthy and out of shelters. Struggling pet owners reached out for free advice, financial aid, pet food, supplies and more to overcome difficulties caring for their pets. The program issued 600 discounted veterinary care vouchers, boarding vouchers, pet deposit vouchers and private training vouchers that were redeemed by pet owners. Our care-a-van mobile veterinary clinic served low-income communities with 5,028 wellness appointments and 1,919 spay/neuter surgeries.
$552,107 spent$911,579 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,936,901.
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 2024 to 2025, from $29M to $39M (+34%).
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.
73% of KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Alisa Gray
President & CEO
Board chair
Chris Kramer
Finance chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 66 funders, grant income rose $506k → $1.7M.
21 of 135 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 135 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
KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
36% 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 KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 20% · 2019 44% · 2020 35% · 2021 28% · 2022 15% · 2023 15% — 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
59% of KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 30 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M 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
KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 134 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 134 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE?
- KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE (Kentucky) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,514,406 to it, the largest being THE JOANNE W GAUNTT FOUNDATION DATED ($1,440,000). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 135 organizations giving $12,514,406 in grants to KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE, 86 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE?
- THE JOANNE W GAUNTT FOUNDATION DATED is the largest funder on record, with $1,440,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 135 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