South Carolina · Nonprofit
SUMTER SPCA & HUMANE EDUCATION CENTER INC
SUMTER SPCA & HUMANE EDUCATION CENTER INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $800k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Sumter Spca & Humane Education Center Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to protect, shelter and provide quality care for unwanted, abandoned, abused and stray animals of sumter county; to strive to adopt these orphan animals into stable and loving homes; to alleviate suffering and prevent cruelty to animals; to advocate the spaying and neutering of animals to help reduce unwanted animals, promote population control, and help reduce the necessity of euthanasia; to educate the community regarding responsible pet ownership and the proper care and humane treatment of animals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The spca of sumter provides a humane open-admission shelter which insures that each animal in need or homeless animal is taken into the shelter and not turned away or refused help. Turning "in need- or homeless animals away can potentially create deadly and cruel consequences to these animals and can condemn them to dangerous and unknown fates. Each "in need- or homeless animal deserves shelter, help, respect, and consideration. The spca of sumter took in 3,879 unwanted/stray animals. Of these,195 were seized during cruelty investigations and 2,314 were pets euthanized for their owner due to illness, injury, etc. Also, 112 lost animals turned into the shelter were reunited with their owners and 1,186 animals placed in appropriate, loving homes through adoption. 882 animals were spayed and neutered on site and 195 cruelty complaints were investigated. An animal "lost and found" listing service is provided for pet owners who have lost their pets. The spca provides a 24 hour answering service and a "call-in- and "in-house" information center is available to help the public with animal questions and problems. Humane education: the spca is open for tours during daily business hours. In…
$828,666 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $828,666.
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 $4.3M to $4.1M (−6%).
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.
44% of SUMTER SPCA & HUMANE EDUCATION CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SUMTER SPCA & HUMANE EDUCATION CENTER 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SUMTER SPCA & HUMANE EDUCATION CENTER 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SUMTER SPCA & HUMANE EDUCATION CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 SUMTER SPCA & HUMANE EDUCATION CENTER 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.
In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUMTER SPCA & HUMANE EDUCATION CENTER INC?
- SUMTER SPCA & HUMANE EDUCATION CENTER INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SUMTER SPCA & HUMANE EDUCATION CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to SUMTER SPCA & HUMANE EDUCATION CENTER INC.
- Who is the largest funder of SUMTER SPCA & HUMANE EDUCATION CENTER INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUMTER SPCA & HUMANE EDUCATION CENTER 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.
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 1 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