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ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC

ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $802,909 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($250,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$959k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$803k
Net assets
$2.6M
5/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Ross County Humane Society Inc does

Mission

The society runs an animal shelter that offers pet adoption, veterinary services, burials, etc.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Animal shelter operations: pet adoptions, veterinary services, burials, etc. Provide vet shelter and care for all stray dogs in ross county, ohio. Provide annual spay/neuter programs for pet owners. Rehome dogs that are not reclaimed by their owners.

    $480,906 spent$175,158 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $480,906.

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 ($346k) Expenses 100 ($378k) Net assets 100 ($340k)2018 Revenue 120 ($413k) Expenses 106 ($399k) Net assets 104 ($353k)2019 Revenue 153 ($528k) Expenses 118 ($446k) Net assets 129 ($439k)2020 Revenue 165 ($569k) Expenses 121 ($459k) Net assets 167 ($566k)2021 Revenue 379 ($1.3M) Expenses 138 ($522k) Net assets 406 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 456 ($1.6M) Expenses 154 ($580k) Net assets 581 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 195 ($673k) Expenses 133 ($504k) Net assets 635 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 277 ($959k) Expenses 139 ($525k) Net assets 767 ($2.6M)
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Revenue (277)Expenses (139)Net assets (767)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 2020 to 2021, from $571k to $1.4M (+142%).

$345k
$357k
$442k
$571k
$1.4M
$2.0M
$2.2M
$2.6M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 34% · 2018 29% · 2019 23% · 2020 21% · 2021 9% · 2022 8% · 2023 18% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

69% of ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,065 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$32k
’17
$15k
’18
$82k
’19
$111k
’20
$790k
’21
$995k
’22
$169k
’23
$434k
’24
4.6
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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Listed11111078777
Joined·+0+0+1+2+0+1+1
No longer listed·0141111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $31k → $43k.

7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% 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 ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC.

31%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 70% · 2021 62% · 2022 58% · 2023 58% — 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

60% of ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

72% of ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC'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 $225k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.

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

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’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $578k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,443 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin45% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,443 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC

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

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 7%Fundraising 2%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC?
ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $802,909 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($250,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $802,909 in grants to ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 13 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