Maine · Nonprofit
SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT
SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT (Maine) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,683 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($105,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $293k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Hancock Count does
Mission
Dedicated to the promotion of animal welfare through community education, advocacy, and placement of companion animals into responsible, loving homes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Animal care: the spca provides temporary shelter for displaced cats and dogs. While in our custody they receive needed medical care, often to correct long term issues and drastically improve each animal's quality of life. We provide enrichment, socialization, and careful assessment of potential adopters. This ensures that each animal is adopted into a safe, caring, and well matched forever home.
$662,021 spent$52,594 earned by the program95% of program spendingSpay and neuter assistance: the spca is committed to decreasing the overpopulation of cats in hancock county by offering prevent-a-litter certificates to low income individuals. We work in partnership with the state of maine as well as local veterinary offices to offset the cost of spaying and neutering cats. In addition to this, the spca now offers annual low cost/no cost spay/neuter clinics to the community. Before any animal is adopted from the spca, we ensure that it has been spayed or neutered.
$30,907 spent$1,610 earned by the program4% of program spendingThe spca provides a variety of programs to hancock county and surrounding communities to increase animal welfare and decrease animal displacement due to financial hardship. These spca programs include the pet food pantry (supplies low income individuals with pet food and pet supplies at no cost to them), mickey duffy fund (provides financial assistance with emergency veterinary expenses), and the jubilee fund (increases access to humane end of life care).
$1,126 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $694,054.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.6M to $2.0M (+27%).
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: 2020 20% · 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $23k → $50k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT’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
SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 51% · 2019 63% · 2020 62% · 2021 52% · 2022 44% · 2023 60% — 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
22% of SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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
51% of SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT'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 $143k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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.
Against its field
SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT
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 Maine
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
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT?
- SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT (Maine) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,683 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($105,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $292,683 in grants to SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT?
- Elmina B Sewall Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 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