Nebraska · Nonprofit
NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY
NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY (Nebraska) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,276,309 to it, the largest being RICHARD BROOKE FOUNDATION ($2,533,117). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 134
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $77M
What Nebraska Humane Society does
Mission
The Nebraska Humane Society protects, saves and enriches the lives of animals in the communities we serve. We do this by providing a broad spectrum of services for the greater omaha area. Program offerings include adoption, animal foster care, obedience training, cremation services, and educational programs like camp kindness for children 6-12 years of age. These services are based on the agency's ability to deliver strong, stable and consistent medical services for all animals placed in our care. The nhs is an open admission shelter, meaning we accept all animals that come to us. We also have a contract with local municipalities to provide animal control services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Animal control - the Nebraska Humane Society (nhs) acts as the animal control agency for the greater omaha area. Municipalities include omaha, bellevue, papillion, springfield, ralston, la vista, gretna, and sarpy county, nebraska. Nhs also acts as the animal licensing agency for the city of omaha and sarpy county. In 2024, nhs received 85,948 incoming calls resulting in animal control officers being dispatched 20,954 times during the year. These calls included reports of stray, injured or dead animals, and problems with wildlife. There were 3,887 investigations of animal cruelty, barking, bites, and abandonments. Additionally, 620 citations were written. In 2024, 2,148 lost pets were returned to owners, 149 received a free ride home. Animal licensing included - dog licenses issued: 14,411 intact, 89,012 altered, cat licenses issued: 847 intact, 40,597 altered. Potentially dangerous dogs - 97, dangerous dogs - 10, mini pig - 11. Licenses for animals were provided at no charge to 3,515 companion animals for senior citizens aged 65 and older residing in bellevue, papillion, springfield, lavista, unincorporated sarpy county and waterloo. No charge licenses were also provided to 258…
$6,886,288 spentof which $124,710 as grants$4,219,194 earned by the program44% of program spendingAnimal welfare - animals arriving at the shelter are examined, evaluated, and treated by our medical services team. All adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens are spayed or neutered. Additionally, some require surgery for knee or hip problems, eye issues, amputations, or dental procedures. Others need medications to fight infections and parasites. Most cats and dogs who enter the shelter also need to be treated for fleas and/or ticks.shelter medical services performed for 2024 include: 5,887 spay/neuter procedures; 354 other surgeries (hips, knees, amputations, eyes, and dentals) 6,631 diagnostic tests (heartworm, feline leukemia, x-rays, blood tests, skin scrapes) and 5,495 dogs and cats were microchipped. Additionally, all animals are vaccinated before they are placed for adoption.during 2024, a total of 7,503 animals were adopted through the nhs. This includes dogs, cats, horses, and other small animals, such as hamsters, rabbits, birds, etc. Once in the adoption program, dogs and cats are spayed/neutered, micro-chipped and given their first series of shots. Adoption kennels are open seven days a week. In 2024, 1,531 animals not yet ready for adoption were cared for in 247…
$7,145,240 spent$922,206 earned by the program45% of program spendingCommunity outreach - nhs provides a variety of services for our community. 785 calls to the behavior helpline were answered, and pet care tips were aired on local television and radio shows. More than 3,402 children and adults toured the shelter and attended humane education events. Staff and volunteer educators also provided presentations to religious and civic groups, businesses, hospitals and nursing homes, senior centers, and after school programs. The summer program, camp kindness, enrolled 297 children in 2024. Community support services for those in need are addressed by several programs: the pet loss support group, project pet safe (provides shelter to pets of victims of domestic abuse), animeals (provides pet food to senior citizens on a fixed income receiving meals on wheels), pet food pantry (provides pet food and cat litter for pet owners experiencing temporary economic challenges) and the behavior helpline (a free call-in service where professional staff helped pet owners with training needs.)
$1,706,612 spent$153,491 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,738,140.
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 $45M to $54M (+19%).
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 7% · 2018 7% · 2019 8% · 2020 10% · 2021 16% · 2022 9% · 2023 9% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Pamela Wiese-Bundy
Executive director
Board chair
Steve Swanstrom
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $767k → $1.6M.
19 of 134 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Nebraska Humane Society Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY raised.
From the IRS filings of NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 134 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
NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
36% 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 NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 41% · 2019 30% · 2020 20% · 2021 23% · 2022 20% · 2023 30% — 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
54% of NEBRASKA 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
84% of NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 235 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 235 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like NEBRASKA 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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Nebraska Humane Society Foundation · exempt
- Humane Enterprises Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY?
- NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY (Nebraska) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,276,309 to it, the largest being RICHARD BROOKE FOUNDATION ($2,533,117). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 134 organizations giving $21,276,309 in grants to NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY, 80 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY?
- RICHARD BROOKE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,533,117 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 134 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