New Hampshire · Nonprofit
NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (New Hampshire) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,449,776 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($3,505,294). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $25M
What New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals does
Mission
To save the lives of animals through rescue, rehabilitation and adoption; to promote learning, eliminate animal cruelty and be a leader in advancing the highest standards in animal welfare.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our adoption center continues to increase the number of incoming animals in need of homes. During the year ending march 31, 2025, animal intake rose to 3,782 homeless animals, including 83 horses, 1,183 felines and 942 canines! Our shelter serves the local communities as well as the region and accepts transfers from overcrowded shelters nationally. Transfers into our shelter exceeded 1,300, while local surrenders totaled 1,789 in the same period. Overpopulation, once considered controlled, has once again rebounded and the demand for moving dogs and cats north for a second chance is once again a large part of our lifesaving work.our farm program which takes in horses, donkeys, sheep, alpaca, goats, pigs and a wide variety of farm fowl has grown exponentially. Two hundred thirty-five animals came in and were cared for through our farm program this year. We welcome animals ranging from dogs and cats, to bunnies, ferrets, mice, rats and birds, to the horses, goats and potbellied pigs of our farm program. We are one of only two animal shelters in the state of nh that accepts farm animals, meeting a critical need. The animals that come to us are here through surrender, as strays,…
$2,958,259 spent$693,441 earned by the program79% of program spendingThe learning center for pets and people provides a community resource for training classes and behavior counseling for privately owned pets. The programming accomplished here ranges from beginning puppy classes through high level agility courses and specialty classes for difficult dog behavior. The focus is on pet retention and building a bond between human and animal. In addition to pet education, our learning center is the hub of our extensive humane education programming. In our classrooms, children are taught kindness, respect and caring for animals by our educators and in the community each year. Programs include children from 2 15. Summer camp, animal-centric children's clubs, junior volunteer opportunities, birthday parties and advocacy clubs are all offered here on our campus. Also, on our campus, tours and service opportunities are offered for scout troops, school groups, clubs, etc. Our educators are also invited to speak to school assemblies, classrooms, library groups and more. All with the same messaging, kindness and caring and respect for every living thing. Additionally, we provide programming for individuals living with memory loss at our alzheimer's caf.…
$490,837 spent$248,702 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe animal protection division of the new hampshire spca works to reduce animal cruelty and neglect and to rescue animals that are victimized. Working in conjunction with police departments state-wide our investigators respond to hundreds of suspected cases of cruelty or neglect each year. In a typical year, our cruelty investigators receive approximately 800 reports of cruelty or neglect. In addition to direct investigative work, our investigator will advise owners of lost pets, providing traps and other tools to help track and capture a scared, lost pet. Our investigator also works with other agencies in the state to strengthen the laws that protect animals.
$285,276 spent$5,425 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,734,372.
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 2021 to 2022, from $19M to $22M (+16%).
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.
77% of NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Lisa S Dennison
Executive director
Board chair
Sue Smulski
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 29 funders, grant income fell $2.3M → $379k.
14 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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: $1.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Nhspca Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS raised.
From the IRS filings of NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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
NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 37% · 2019 63% · 2020 36% · 2021 36% · 2022 26% · 2023 20% — 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
40% of NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS'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
77% of NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS'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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.9M 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.
Against its field
NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS's revenue grew 51% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
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 New Hampshire
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
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Nhspca Trust · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
- NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (New Hampshire) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,449,776 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($3,505,294). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $6,449,776 in grants to NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,505,294 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 73 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