Oregon · Nonprofit
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY (Oregon) receives grants from 233 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,552,292 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,839,051). 139 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 233
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $107M
What Oregon Humane Society does
Mission
The Oregon Humane Society ("ohs") is a private animal welfare organization, founded in 1868 and incorporated in 1880, whose mission is to create a more humane society with the vision of a world where all animals are treated with compassion, kindness and respect. Ohs is a standalone, nonprofit organization, operating with campuses in portland and salem, oregon. Ohs is supported primarily by private donations and revenues generated from services provided to care and find homes for homeless animals, protect animals from cruelty and neglect, provide accessible veterinary care and training service, and educate the community on the humane treatment of animals. Notably, ohs is not an affiliate of national animal welfare organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sheltering and adoptions: in 2025, ohs placed 12,478 pets with new families in oregon, the pacific northwest, and beyond. The animals that found new homes constitute an overall live release rate (lrr) of 97%. Through the second chance program, ohs saves more lives by accepting animals from shelters, nonprofit rescue groups, and animal service agencies across oregon as well as partner shelters in other states such as california, washington, hawaii, louisiana, and texas. Many of these shelters are often under-resourced and struggle with too many animals and too few adopters. In 2025, 7,017 animals were accepted from 62 partner organizations.live release rates for 2025: ohs uses live release rate (lrr) to track the outcome of animals that are brought into its shelters. The lrr accurately reflects the many options for pets that come to the shelter in addition to adoptions - for example, animal transfers to other rescue organizations and animals that are returned to their owners. The lrr does not include end-of-life services.ohs released a total of 12,904 animals. Ohs overall lrr: 97%portland campus live release rate: 98%salem campus live release rate: 95%length of stay for 2025: ohs…
$18,698,818 spent$4,053,417 earned by the program57% of program spendingCommunity veterinary services: during the year ending dec. 31, 2025, ohs had 18,448 patient visits to the community veterinary hospital (cvh) including 283 spay and neuter surgeries, 339 dental procedures and 553 other urgent surgeries and procedures. In addition, ohs provided $2,007,773 in financial assistance for veterinary care. Salem campus - veterinary services: ohs salem campus provides medical services primarily for shelter animals, plus spay/neuter for owned cats, community cats, and pets from other rescue groups. In 2025, the salem campus provided 5,842 surgeries. This included spay/neuter surgery for 2,460 shelter pets, 1,121 community cats,1,847 owned pets, plus 232 pets from other rescue groups.
$7,970,882 spent$3,974,283 earned by the program24% of program spendingCommunity and education services: fostering skills and understanding that enhance connection between animals and humans is central to ohs work. Additionally, ohs communications and marketing department strives to promote critical and helpful information to the community through the media, special events, and real-time photos of animals available for adoption on www.oregonhumane.org. In 2025: visitors to the ohs portland campus totaled 64,786 (on average, 180 people visited the portland campus each day). Visitors to the salem campus totaled 49,514.adoptions at the portland campus averaged 25 per day.adoptions at the salem campus averaged 10 per day.ohs issued 67 press releases. Ohs had 3,850 television, radio and online news stories. Ohs magazine reached 27,000 readers each quarter.ohs website averaged 4,420 daily visitors and total new visitors to the site were approximately 1,400,269 for the year.the average time spent on ohs's website was 1:52.ohs has a robust following on social media with 122,327 on facebook, 75,705 on instagram, and 19,749 on tiktok.humane education: education is deeply rooted in ohs history. Focused on teaching compassion, kindness, and empathy toward…
$2,726,092 spent$130,555 earned by the program8% of program spendingHumane law enforcement and rescue ohs employs three humane special agents who are commissioned by the superintendent of oregon state police to enforce oregon's tough animal protection laws statewide. Humane law enforcement handles a variety of animal welfare complaints. In 2025, there were 3,793 calls and e-mail messages to the reporting line and website. Humane special agents traveled across oregon to investigate 791 new cases of animal abuse or neglect leading to 852 animals being seized or surrendered, and 12 criminal cases. The humane law enforcement department also assisted outside agencies 166 times and provided 203 veterinary forensic services for cases investigated by oregon humane and other law enforcement agencies. In total, 2,048 animals were helped by oregon humane law enforcement department in 2025. Oregon humane's goal is to save lives and enhance the relationship between people and their pets, while ensuring that the roughly two million pets in the region are protected from abuse or neglect. Rescue: oregon humane's technical animal rescue (ohstar) members with animal first-aid and rescue training are available to respond to animal rescue situations that require…
$3,310,134 spent$393,735 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,705,926.
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 2019 to 2020, from $84M to $97M (+14%).
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: 2021 12% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Dev Dion
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 53 funders to 96 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $3.5M.
28 of 233 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 233 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
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
57% 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 OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 21% · 2019 19% · 2020 18% · 2021 13% · 2022 11% · 2023 15% — 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
51% of OREGON 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
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 36 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.8M 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
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY's funding base is broadening — from 53 funders to 96 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 134 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $520k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS$520k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like OREGON 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY?
- OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY (Oregon) receives grants from 233 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,552,292 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,839,051). 139 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 233 organizations giving $20,552,292 in grants to OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY, 139 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,839,051 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 233 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