Texas · Nonprofit
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC (Texas) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,071,837 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($3,055,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 102
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $15M
What The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc does
Mission
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. Because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment, we offer innovative, nationally recognized programs that save the lives of thousands of dogs and cats each year. Ahs' approach to addressing animal homelessness encompasses both finding animals homes through adoption as well as preventing future homelessness through spay/neuter programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The austin humane society provides comprehensive care for animals in its adoption program, including medical care and behavioral support while they await placement. We maintain a lifelong commitment to the animals in our care. Through this program, animals receive the care and support necessary to prepare them for successful adoption into safe, loving homes. This work advances the organization's mission to improve the lives of companion animals and the people who care for them, while saving lives and reducing animal homelessness.
$3,651,621 spent$343,562 earned by the program88% of program spendingThe ahs feral cat program provides free sterilizations and vaccinations for feral cats in travis county and surrounding counties in central texas. The humane trap-neuter-return (tnr) method provides education on trapping feral cats and trap rental to volunteers. Spay/neuter surgery, rabies vaccinations, deworming, and ear tipping for any feral cats they trap are free of charge. After recovering from surgery, the feral cat is returned to its colony by the volunteer. The ahs tnr clinic was the first high volume spay/neuter clinic specifically for feral cats in central texas. The primary goal of the program is to improve the lives of feral cats and reduce the homeless cat population. Since the program's inception in 2007, we have served over 88,000 cats, averaging at least 5,000 cats per year in the last five years. By sterilizing and vaccinating feral cats, we improve their health and reduce the spread of common feline diseases between feral and free-roaming cats and abate the exponential growth of the homeless cat population. Ahs launched a unique partnership with the austin animal center (aac) in 2011 to save the lives of stray cats that would previously have been euthanized.…
$490,366 spent$386,898 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,141,987.
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 2021 to 2022, from $14M to $15M (+7%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 7% · 2023 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC’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. 1 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
Frances Jonon
President, CEO
Board chair
Chris Helling
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $185k → $641k.
16 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 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
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 94% · 2019 22% · 2020 21% · 2021 21% · 2022 45% · 2023 39% — 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
40% of THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
73% of THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY 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 $1.9M that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC?
- THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC (Texas) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,071,837 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($3,055,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $7,071,837 in grants to THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,055,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 102 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