Minnesota · Nonprofit
TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $882,092 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($179,179). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $882k
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Tri-County Humane Society does
Mission
We believe in the human-animal bond and exist to support the animals and people of central minnesota by practicing and promoting quality animal care, offering compassionate customer service, and providing humane education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
We offer pet adoption services that create life-changing human-animal bonds. In 2024, we successfully adopted out or reunited 4,489 animals into homes. In addition, we are happy to report the average length of stay for animals is only 8 days.
$1,553,150 spent$868,445 earned by the program100% of program spendingAlong with animal surrender and adoption services, we also receive stray animals and provide safekeeping for animals who have been seized. In 2024, we were able to reunite 45% of the stray dogs we received and 7% of the stray cats we received with their people. While these numbers are well above the national average of 16% for dogs and 3% for cats, we hope to increase our return to owner rates by increasing our microchip services to the public. We offer microchipping at a low cost, and in 2024 we held six free microchip clinics in which we chipped 386 pets!
All pets adopted through us are spayed/neutered, given an external exam, treated for any noted parasites or infections, vaccinated, and microchipped. They are also provided with exceptional care, enrichment, and housing, and fed an appropriate diet.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,553,150.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $2.6M to $4.6M (+76%).
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.
41% of TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY’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. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $64k → $101k.
11 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY’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
TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
72% 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 TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 33% · 2019 34% · 2020 37% · 2021 37% · 2022 29% · 2023 25% — 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
39% of TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $393k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
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 Minnesota
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
99%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY?
- TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $882,092 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($179,179). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $882,092 in grants to TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY?
- COMMUNITYGIVING is the largest funder on record, with $179,179 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2018–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing