Illinois · Nonprofit
Safe Humane
Safe Humane (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,084 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($65,890). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $111k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $173k
What Safe Humane does
Mission
Create safe and humane communities by inspiring positive relationships between people and animals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Chicago Animal Care & Control Program Services: Program services at Chicago Animal Care & Control included dog manners and skills classes, in-kennel enrichment, out-of-kennel enrichment, dog walking, and training for volunteer dog handlers. Dog equipment and supplies as well as facility maintenance costs are also included. More than 750 training sessions were completed by more than 300 participants. In-kennel enrichment included close to 500 people and some 4,000 engagements with dogs and cats.
$15,058 spent21% of program spendingOther Program Services: Other Program Services included (1) Outreach/Engagement & Education, including Community Collaboration with corporate and group volunteer days with 60 corporations and groups comprising more than 500 volunteers from these groups working with several hundred individual CACC dogs as well as special events such as Christmas Eve for the Animals, and (2) Collaborative Justice, which continued Court Advocacy efforts both virtually and in-person in courtrooms with 15 active volunteers for four to five hearings per week and paying for nercopsies for deceased animals brought to CACC who were abused. All populations served are diverse in species, race or ethnicity, income, education, employment and age, and they live throughout Cook County and its collar Illinois counties.
$13,309 spent19% of program spendingIndividual dog programs: Individual dog programs included (1) our legacy Court Case Dogs aka CCDs programs, supporting previously approved CCDs, conducting dog behavioral consultations in person or virtually, free of charge, to CCD families, conducting interviews and disseminating success stories on social media, documenting procedures for application to new abused shelter dog programming and sharing with other organizations for implementing their own CCD programs, and (2) Program Dogs: CACC shelter dogs were assessed for participating in our Lifetime Bonds programs, manners and skills classes, and corporate / group volunteer events. These Program Dogs became part of a broader program, PALs, which also incorporates our existing Ambassador Dogs. 150 hours of assessments amd 75 hours in classes resulted in approving 135 Program Dogs and helping many others.
$18,315 spentof which $10,000 as grants26% of program spendingLifetime Bonds: Lifetime Bonds programming continued with 7 organizational / institutional partners. They were Alternative Schools Network in collaboration with Chicago Animal Care & Control, Illinois Youth Center - St Charles, DeKalb School District 428, Northern Illinois University in collaboration with animal shelters Tails Humane Society and Animal Care League. These programs served some 100 youth and young adult program participants and 100 dogs from the partner shelters. 75 volunteers and 10 Safe Humane staff members organized and held close to 100 Lifetime Bonds classes with our partners
$24,819 spentof which $14,000 as grants35% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $71,501.
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 $31k to $152k (+389%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Safe Humane’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Cynthia Bathurst
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $42k → $623.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 Safe Humane’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
Safe Humane leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 Safe Humane.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 84% · 2020 70% · 2021 46% · 2022 71% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
14% of Safe Humane's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
53% of Safe 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 $93k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Safe Humane runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Safe 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.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Safe Humane: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Safe Humane?
- Safe Humane (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,084 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($65,890). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Safe Humane have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $200,084 in grants to Safe Humane, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Safe Humane?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $65,890 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Safe Humane find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 12 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