Ohio · Nonprofit
LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,162,173 to it, the largest being LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ($306,332). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Licking County Humane Society does
Mission
The Licking County Humane Society rescues animals to improve lives. Through our extensive programming and services, lchs touches the lives of 5,000 animals and 10,000 people annually.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Animal sheltering: Licking County Humane Society placed 1,894 animals for adoption in 2025. The majority were owner-surrendered from people who were experiencing a crisis such as loss of home, illness, loss of employment, death of a family member, etc. Some animals arrived due to abuse and neglect and some were strays. Lchs also accepts transfers from other organizations to assist with the over-population issues. While at lchs, animals' housing, medical and social needs are met. Lchs has an over 97.5% live release rate.
$986,143 spent$320,890 earned by the program46% of program spendingHumane agent: the humane agent investigates cases and provides education and resources to the community. It is always our goal to keep animals with their people. Animals may be confiscated due to cruelty. The animals are cared for at lchs until the pet is ready for adoption. The following jurisdictions are served by lchs humane agent: unincorporated licking county, heath, granville, pataskala, buckeye lake, hebron, reynoldsburg, johnstown, newark, and utica.
$264,980 spent$249,246 earned by the program12% of program spendingLow-cost clinics: lchs provides low cost spay/neuter services to the community. Since inception, 22,609 animals have been altered. Lchs also offers wellness to the public at reduced fees. In our continuing efforts to prevent animals from entering shelters, lchs began a new program in 2023 that provides free vaccines and wellness care to the pets of the unsheltered population. It is called the bright spot clinic. It has now been expanded to serve families with limited income. We also began the jt callendar fund which provides supplies to the unsheltered population including sleeping bags for pets & people, pet food, access to pet-friendly warming centers and more. Lchs continues to provide services to at-risk populations of animal owners, including senior citizens (meals on wheels pet food pantry,) the unsheltered pet-owning population at the local warming center, and providing pet food to the local food pantry for clients who need assistance with pet food. We also continue to partner with our local joint vocational program for stem related programming to students interested in veterinary science.
$803,555 spent$418,251 earned by the program38% of program spendingOther services provided to directly support lchs mission.
$85,617 spent$20,708 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,140,295.
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.
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 $4.0M to $5.7M (+44%).
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 3% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 10% · 2021 5% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $29k → $176k.
12 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
78% 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 LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 57% · 2019 36% · 2020 42% · 2021 35% · 2022 28% · 2023 23% — 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
33% of LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
57% of LICKING COUNTY 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 $504k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $658k 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.
Organizations like LICKING COUNTY 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY?
- LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,162,173 to it, the largest being LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ($306,332). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $1,162,173 in grants to LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY?
- LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $306,332 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 41 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