Michigan · Nonprofit
LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY
LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY (Michigan) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,060,777 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($350,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Little Traverse Bay Humane Society does
Mission
Our mission is sustaninably and respectfully serving pets and the people who love them with compassionate, comprehensive and exemplary care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Little Traverse Bay Humane Society sustainably and respectfully serves pets and the people who love them with compassionate, comprehensive, and exemplary care. Each year, the organization rescues and finds homes for over 500 animals. The organization provides numerous programs and services to help improve the lives of people and their pets and offers boarding, grooming, daycare, and training services to the public, in addition to a full-service veterinary clinic. Little Traverse Bay Humane Society also offers a low-cost spay/neuter program, a pet food pantry, and educational outreach programs to the community.
$3,012,697 spent$2,101,313 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,012,697.
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 2023 to 2024, from $8.4M to $10M (+22%).
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: 2020 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY 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. 5 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.
Chief executive
Elise Ramsey
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $96k → $296k.
14 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
42% 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 LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 36% · 2019 25% · 2020 26% · 2021 19% · 2022 20% · 2023 18% — 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
63% of LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
50% of LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $727k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY?
- LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY (Michigan) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,060,777 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($350,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $2,060,777 in grants to LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 69 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