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PASADENA HUMANE

PASADENA HUMANE (California) receives grants from 345 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,864,249 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($2,345,175). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$16M
Funders on record
345
Grants received
$17M
Net assets
$42M
96/345 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Pasadena Humane does

Mission

Compassionate care for all animals

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. In 2024, the animal shelter handled 7,225 animals and placed 100% of healthy and safe animals. Eleven cities are served: altadena, arcadia, bradbury, glendale, la canada, la crescenta-montrose, monrovia, pasadena, san marino, sierra madre, glendale, and south pasadena.

    $15,476,090 spent$4,419,448 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. The society sponsors a program to educate the public on the proper care and handling of animals.

  3. The society sponsors a spay/neuter program.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,476,090.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($38M)2018 Revenue 112 ($14M) Expenses 111 ($12M) Net assets 104 ($40M)2020 Revenue 89 ($11M) Expenses 125 ($13M) Net assets 106 ($41M)2021 Revenue 136 ($17M) Expenses 136 ($15M) Net assets 114 ($44M)2022 Revenue 129 ($16M) Expenses 138 ($15M) Net assets 108 ($41M)2023 Revenue 140 ($18M) Expenses 165 ($18M) Net assets 114 ($44M)2024 Revenue 125 ($16M) Expenses 179 ($19M) Net assets 108 ($42M)
2017201820202021202220232024
Revenue (125)Expenses (179)Net assets (108)Peer revenue range

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 $47M to $43M (−8%).

$41M
$41M
$43M
$47M
$43M
$45M
$44M
2017201820202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

49% of PASADENA HUMANE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 238 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.0M
’17
$2.3M
’18
−$2.1M
’20
$2.7M
’21
$1.6M
’22
$172k
’23
−$3.3M
’24
2.1
months of
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

Claudia Duvernet

President & CEO

Board chair

Eric Heer

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201820202021202220232024
Listed18152521242830
Joined·+0·+3+7+6+5
No longer listed·3·7423
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 57 funders, grant income rose $706k → $1.2M.

40 of 345 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 PASADENA HUMANE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 345 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

PASADENA HUMANE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

71% 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 PASADENA HUMANE.

14%
largest funder
37%
top three
~17
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 15% · 2019 16% · 2020 42% · 2021 28% · 2022 16% · 2023 21% — 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

46% of PASADENA HUMANE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 28% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

62% of PASADENA HUMANE'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 $6.5M that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside California, across 37 states.

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NH
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MN
IL
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MA
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NJ
CT
RI
CA
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CO
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AR
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FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
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’22
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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PASADENA HUMANE's revenue grew 25% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 235 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like PASADENA HUMANE

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 9%Fundraising 10%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds PASADENA HUMANE?
PASADENA HUMANE (California) receives grants from 345 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,864,249 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($2,345,175). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PASADENA HUMANE have?
IRS filings report 345 organizations giving $16,864,249 in grants to PASADENA HUMANE, 96 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PASADENA HUMANE?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,345,175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PASADENA HUMANE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 345 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