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LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC

LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $887,771 to it, the largest being Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund ($190,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.2M
Revenue FY2024
26
Funders on record
$888k
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
14/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%

Against its field

LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,558 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve4.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,558 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($352k) Expenses 100 ($309k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 186 ($654k) Expenses 95 ($294k) Net assets 130 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 277 ($975k) Expenses 144 ($444k) Net assets 174 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 194 ($685k) Expenses 172 ($532k) Net assets 187 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 286 ($1.0M) Expenses 248 ($767k) Net assets 207 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 234 ($825k) Expenses 239 ($740k) Net assets 213 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 244 ($861k) Expenses 282 ($872k) Net assets 213 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 336 ($1.2M) Expenses 344 ($1.1M) Net assets 223 ($2.7M)
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Revenue (336)Expenses (344)Net assets (223)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

44% of LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,654 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
17
$360k
18
$532k
19
$154k
20
$241k
21
$85k
22
$11k
23
$121k
24
4.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $39k → $235k.

9 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)51% 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 LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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

LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

53% 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 LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC.

21%
largest funder
55%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 58% · 2020 49% · 2021 82% · 2022 43% · 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

56% of LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

51% of LAKE NORMAN HUMANE 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 $433k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

PA
CA
MO
DE
NC
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FL

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. $455k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 26 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 24%Fundraising 16%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC?
LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $887,771 to it, the largest being Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund ($190,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $887,771 in grants to LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC?
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE NORMAN HUMANE 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.

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 26funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing