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LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY

LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY (Kentucky) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,502,699 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($907,620). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.6M
Funders on record
59
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$9.3M
32/59 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Lexington Humane Society does

Mission

To advocate the compassionate treatment of animals; educate the community on responsible, lifelong pet ownership; and promote adoption as the best option when searching for a new pet.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Humane services - to prevent cruelty to animals & cultivate public sentiment towards humane treatment of animal life

    $1,916,785 spent
    36% of program spending
  2. Animal control - under contract with local government to handle animal control in accordance with local and state ordinances

    $1,879,468 spent
    35% of program spending
  3. Adoption services - provide adoption services for animals

    $1,535,189 spent
    29% of program spending
  4. Spay and we'll pay - provides free or low cost surgeries for qualifying pet owners

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,331,442.

02The 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 ($3.7M) Expenses 100 ($3.6M) Net assets 100 ($4.7M)2019 Revenue 131 ($4.9M) Expenses 117 ($4.2M) Net assets 122 ($5.8M)2020 Revenue 119 ($4.4M) Expenses 113 ($4.1M) Net assets 129 ($6.1M)2021 Revenue 115 ($4.3M) Expenses 116 ($4.2M) Net assets 148 ($7.0M)2022 Revenue 152 ($5.7M) Expenses 131 ($4.7M) Net assets 156 ($7.4M)2023 Revenue 137 ($5.1M) Expenses 134 ($4.9M) Net assets 168 ($7.9M)2024 Revenue 143 ($5.3M) Expenses 150 ($5.4M) Net assets 175 ($8.3M)2025 Revenue 177 ($6.6M) Expenses 164 ($5.9M) Net assets 197 ($9.3M)
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Revenue (177)Expenses (164)Net assets (197)Peer revenue range

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 $8.8M to $9.8M (+12%).

$5.0M
$5.9M
$6.6M
$7.2M
$7.6M
$8.5M
$8.8M
$9.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 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.

$93k
’17
$627k
’19
$317k
’20
$53k
’21
$926k
’22
$241k
’23
−$140k
’24
$629k
’25
4.5
months of
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.

Board chair

Rebecca Sherman

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2216161617231821
Joined··+1+0+5+11+1+4
No longer listed··104561
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $135k → $324k.

14 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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

LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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

68% 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 LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY.

36%
largest funder
56%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 52% · 2019 64% · 2020 33% · 2021 36% · 2022 36% · 2023 33% — growing more concentrated.

“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

44% of LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY'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+5y+6y

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

LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 21 states in all.

IL
WI
MI
NY
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
KY
VA
DE
AZ
TN
NC
LA
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $713k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY is better cushioned than half of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · below the median
Months of reserve4.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 5%Fundraising 6%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY?
LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY (Kentucky) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,502,699 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($907,620). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $2,502,699 in grants to LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY?
PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $907,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY 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 59 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