Florida · Nonprofit
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,186 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($46,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $248k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What The Humane Society of Polk County Inc does
Mission
To help in the prevention of cruelty to animals, the relief of suffering amoung animals, and to provide education for animal issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The adoption program provides housing and care for surrendered animals and prepares them for adoption. Adoptions are offered at the selter facility as well as at various off-site locations and community events. During the current fiscal year we adopted out over 1,500 animals. Additionally we provided emergency services for over 200 pet owners. The humane society is polk county's first and only no kill animal shelter.
$1,300,340 spent$887,164 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe spay/neuter program (snip) assists low income families to spay/neuter their pets along with providing the first set of shots- including the rabies vaccine when age appropriate as well a micro-chip implant with its registration to home again. This program is available for a cost of 420 for those families who qualify to help control the animal population and reduce the number of unwanted pets. There is also a low cost spay/neuter voucher program which is a affordable program to spay/neuter pets. For the current fiscal year we spayed of neutered over 1,800 animals preventing the births of thousands of unwanted animals.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,300,340.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.4M to $3.0M (−13%).
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 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $4k → $62k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $82k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Givewell Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY 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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
70% 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 POLK COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 65% · 2019 53% · 2020 34% · 2021 76% · 2022 38% · 2023 47% — 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
67% of THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k 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
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK 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
Government funding THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $308 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $308
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
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 POLK COUNTY INC?
- THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,186 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($46,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $248,186 in grants to THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC?
- PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $46,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 18 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