Kansas · Nonprofit
LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY
LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY (Kansas) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,708,045 to it, the largest being DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($4,970,099). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Lawrence Humane Society does
Mission
The Lawrence Humane Society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care and advocacy for homeless and abused animals, as well as resource for the pets and people in our community
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Shelter operations: the Lawrence Humane Society accepts and provides temporary care for stray animals found within the city of lawrence, ks and douglas county; animals seized by animal control; pets relinquished by their owners; and animals transferred from other animal welfare agencies lacking time, space, and resources to find positive placement for their animals. During their stay, animals receive daily essential feeding and cleaning, and exercise and enrichment. Of the 3,654 animals housed at the shelter in 2023, 521 animals were reunited with their owners, 2,920 animals were adopted to new homes, and 30 animals were transferred to other agencies for placement. Lawrence humane achieved an overall live release rate of 94% for 2023, meaning that 94% of animals who entered lawrence humane had a positive outcome. Animals are never euthanized for space or length of time in the shelter, and only does so when it is absolutely medically or behaviorally necessary. In 2023, the animal services division of the Lawrence Humane Society continued to provide field services to the unincorporated douglas county. Our team of two animal services officers (asos) respond to animal-related calls…
$1,913,739 spent$581,203 earned by the program87% of program spendingVeterinary care: the Lawrence Humane Society employs a veterinary team to evaluate and treat animals in our care, as well as ready animals for adoption. In 2023, the lawrence humane veterinary team performed 1,973 spay and neuter surgeries on shelter animals to ready them for adoption. The veterinary team also completed 151 specialty surgeries on shelter animals such as dentals, amputations, mass removals, wound repair, etc. Additionally, the veterinary team performed 1,646 low-cost spay and neuter surgeries for publicly owned pets, along with 148 specialty surgeries and dentals, and 99 owner-requested euthanasia procedures for senior, ill, and injured pets. In 2023, lawrence humane continued to offer monthly low-cost pet vaccine clinics for publicly owned pets, as well as offering additional clinics during march 2023, the inaugural national pet vaccination month. In total in 2023, lawrence humane hosted 14 low-cost and subsidized pet vaccine clinics, serving 655 animals from 380 unique households.
$272,723 spent12% of program spendingCommunity engagement: the Lawrence Humane Society has made enormous strides to serve our community in more holistic ways outside of just being a place where people go to either surrender or adopt animals. We believe that the future of animal sheltering is the work that happens in - and for - a community and we actively partner with other community organizations and social service agencies to serve our entire community. In 2023, lawrence humane received 839 applications for assistance through our crisis pet retention (cpr) fund, which assists community members with pet deposits/pet rent; essential pet supplies (pet food, litter, crates, etc.); basic, essential veterinary care (spay/neuter, vaccines, microchips, etc.); emergency and specialty veterinary care; behavior consulting; and temporary boarding for pets whose owners are in crisis, all in order to keep people and pets together through poverty, job loss, loss of housing, and physical and mental health crises. In total, 808 animals from 546 individual households were treated at lawrence humane for essential, preventative care (spays/neuters, vaccines, microchips, flea/tick treatment, dentals) for a total of 81,845 in care…
$10,733 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,197,195.
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 2017 to 2018, from $5.2M to $9.1M (+75%).
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: 2017 14% · 2018 51% · 2019 106% · 2020 13% · 2021 32% · 2022 32% · 2023 13% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY’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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 17 funders, grant income fell $374k → $223k.
12 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 92% · 2019 90% · 2020 83% · 2021 56% · 2022 31% · 2023 33% — 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
50% of LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
82% of LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY'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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $6.7M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY?
- LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY (Kansas) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,708,045 to it, the largest being DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($4,970,099). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $6,708,045 in grants to LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY?
- DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,970,099 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 47 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