Minnesota · Nonprofit
LAKES AREA HUMANE SOCIETY INC
LAKES AREA HUMANE SOCIETY INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,023 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $420k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $72k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Lakes Area Humane Society Inc does
Mission
The mission of the lakes area humane society is to promote responsible care and training for household pets through education and public awareness, and to provide a safe and shelter haven for lost and abandoned animals pending placement in suitable permanent homes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During 2025, the organization provided shelter to 408 animals and reunited 96 lost pets with their owners. Placed 255 pets in new, permanent homes or transferred to rescue. Each of these animals was tested for serious diseases, vaccinated and spayed/neutered before being adopted. Offered animal behavior counseling at no charge to individuals struggling with negative pet behaviors. Shelter staff provided 9 tours and presentations to children's groups. Over 75 children learned about the importance of being kind to animals, animal safety, and responsible pet ownership and about the shelter's many services.
$260,080 spent$114,673 earned by the program99% of program spendingThe lakes area humane society started offering low-cost microchipping to owned pets in 2024. In 2024, over 30 owned pets were microchipped, in 2025 over 25 owned pets were microchipped. The cost to pet owners is approximately 75% less than compared to local veterinary clinics. Lost/stray animals make up 83% of the pets entering the shelter. In addition, 190 adoptive pets were microchipped prior to adoption at no extra cost to their new owners. The purpose of the low-cost clinics is to provide permanent, life-long identification for the pets. In addition, the lakes area humane society provides each adoptable animal a identification tag free of charge to all adoptive pets. This in turn, will enable more lost/stolen pets to be returned to their owners.
$3,097 spent$695 earned by the program1% of program spendingThe lakes area humane society utilizing a special medical fund to covering the cost of procedures for adoptive animals that require veterinary procedures such as leg and tail amputations, teeth extractions, eye enucleations and other necessary medical procedures. This program ensures that the new pet owners do not have to pay for any additional expenses in addition to the standard adoption fees.
$388 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $263,565.
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 2018 to 2019, from $602k to $1.6M (+159%).
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 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of LAKES AREA HUMANE SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Christin Klimek
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $8k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 LAKES AREA HUMANE SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
LAKES AREA HUMANE SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 LAKES AREA HUMANE SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 51% · 2022 51% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
86% of LAKES AREA HUMANE SOCIETY 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 $10k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LAKES AREA HUMANE SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 LAKES AREA HUMANE SOCIETY INC?
- LAKES AREA HUMANE SOCIETY INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,023 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAKES AREA HUMANE SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $72,023 in grants to LAKES AREA HUMANE SOCIETY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKES AREA HUMANE SOCIETY INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKES AREA HUMANE SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 7 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