South Carolina · Nonprofit
SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC
SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $996,957 to it, the largest being Spartanburg County Foundation ($335,738). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $997k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Spartanburg Humane Society Inc does
Mission
The mission of the spartanburg humane society is to provide quality care to lost and unwanted pets while raising community awareness about issues affecting companion animals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our first accomplishment would be our steadfast endeavor to keep our live release rate between 99% - 100% annually. In 2011, our live release rate was less than 10%, so with help from the community, strong discipline and dedication by our staff, and our board standing firmly behind us, we have made drastic changes. These include our intake medical procedures, strengthened our veterinary training for the entire staff, and established a culture of caring that requires everyone to take ownership in every animal in our building. We keep a rather long waiting list to enter our facility because we do not euthanize for space. But unlike most shelters in the country, we remain an open admission facility for all animals - young, old, sick and healthy. We never discriminate against breed, age or health conditions.
$1,013,826 spent$291,009 earned by the program67% of program spendingOur next greatest accomplishment is our committment to adopting healthy animals into our community. We are treating dogs who are heartworm positive as soon as possible after intake in order to begin their "new" lives healthy and ready for permanent homes. Heartworm disease is deadly and is caused by a single mosquito bite to an unprotected dog. Traditionally, heartworm positive dogs are euthanized in most shelters because of expense, and they were euthanized at the spartanburg humane society in the past. But now we are testing them immediately and starting every dog that enters the shelter on prevention and scheduling them for treatment when necessary, but as soon as possible. Both of these measures are extremely expensive but critical to the life of the animals, so we just have to find a way to raise the money continually since our community has not fully bought into heartworm prevention. We have also increased the level of preventative medications for short-term and long-term results for all animals that enter the shelter. We have instituted an additional step in the veterinary care for each animal to ensure that everyone has received the correct core vaccines and prevention…
$494,446 spent$144,560 earned by the program33% of program spendingOur third core accomplishment is our strong education department. We know our future and the future of pets in our community depends upon the strong knowledge of our future pet parents. We have created a jr. Vet program to broaden the awareness and understanding of the level of care that is required for healthy and happy pets. We are teaching them how to identify potential upper respiratory infections, how to identify parasites, and the importance of the critical preventions that help to keep our pets healthy and lead long lives. Students learn how to calculate medications based on weight; they learn how to stitch wounds with real suture and bananas; they learn how to draw blood (in a very creative way without a needle); and they learn how to properly use a microscpe to identify parasites in fecal matter. We want all students to go home and query their parents about current vaccines, annual heartworm tests and monthly heartworm and flea preventions. We know our young members of our community are the bridge between the current conditions in our neighborhoods and the future of pet parenting.
$7,599 spent$22,775 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,515,871.
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.
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 $1.8M to $2.8M (+59%).
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 5% · 2020 6% · 2021 16% · 2022 11% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Angel Cox
CEO
Board chair
Craig Macnaughton
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $267k → $53k.
5 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
66% 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 SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 55% · 2019 41% · 2020 29% · 2021 34% · 2022 67% · 2023 28% — 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
44% of SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $434k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
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In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC?
- SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $996,957 to it, the largest being Spartanburg County Foundation ($335,738). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $996,957 in grants to SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC?
- Spartanburg County Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $335,738 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 39 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