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PORTSMOUTH HUMANE SOCIETY INC

PORTSMOUTH HUMANE SOCIETY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,569 to it, the largest being BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ($25,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.4M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$106k
Net assets
$1.2M
6/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Portsmouth Humane Society Inc does

Mission

Provide shelter, care, and treatment to homeless animals in the city of portsmouth community through permanent adoptions, spay/neuter programs, and community education.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Contracted animal shelter housing stray and unwanted pets of the city of portsmouth, provide active humane education programs, spay and neuter program, and adoption center.

    $1,104,494 spent$1,085,504 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,104,494.

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 ($657k) Expenses 100 ($911k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 141 ($928k) Expenses 97 ($887k) Net assets 103 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 107 ($700k) Expenses 92 ($840k) Net assets 93 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 135 ($885k) Expenses 89 ($811k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 148 ($972k) Expenses 107 ($972k) Net assets 105 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 148 ($975k) Expenses 135 ($1.2M) Net assets 85 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 192 ($1.3M) Expenses 138 ($1.3M) Net assets 87 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 219 ($1.4M) Expenses 152 ($1.4M) Net assets 93 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (219)Expenses (152)Net assets (93)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 $2.0M to $1.8M (−9%).

$2.0M
$2.0M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$1.8M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

22% of PORTSMOUTH HUMANE SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,657 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$255k
’17
$41k
’18
−$140k
’19
$74k
’20
−$32
’21
−$257k
’22
$4k
’23
$50k
’24
1.9
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.

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Listed2020141111101010
Joined·+6+3+0+0+4+0+4
No longer listed·6930504
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $28k.

5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 PORTSMOUTH HUMANE SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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

PORTSMOUTH HUMANE SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

78% 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 PORTSMOUTH HUMANE SOCIETY INC.

24%
largest funder
47%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 69% · 2019 52% · 2020 56% · 2021 48% · 2022 41% · 2023 54% — 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

30% of PORTSMOUTH HUMANE SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

PORTSMOUTH HUMANE SOCIETY INC draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 8 states in all.

NJ
CA
UT
VA
AZ
NC
DC
TX

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

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’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

PORTSMOUTH HUMANE SOCIETY INC has grown faster than half of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 10%Fundraising 10%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

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Questions and answers

Who funds PORTSMOUTH HUMANE SOCIETY INC?
PORTSMOUTH HUMANE SOCIETY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,569 to it, the largest being BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ($25,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PORTSMOUTH HUMANE SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $105,569 in grants to PORTSMOUTH HUMANE SOCIETY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PORTSMOUTH HUMANE SOCIETY INC?
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PORTSMOUTH HUMANE SOCIETY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 17 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