Humane World for Animals
Legal name: Humane World for Animals Inc
Overview
Mission
Humane World for Animals—formerly called Humane Society International and the Humane Society of the United States—has been a leader in the animal protection movement, tackling the root causes of animal cruelty and suffering to drive permanent change and create a better world for all animals around the globe.
What it reported doing in 2025
Build a stronger animal protection movement Humane World for Animals, Inc., FKA the HSUS, works to strengthen its allies in the fight for all animals - locally, nationally and globally. Energizing the movement to drive change-through advocacy, direct care, education, enforcement of laws and consumer choice - is fundamental to bringing an end to animal cruelty. In addition to education, outreach and training work, the Organization focuses on efforts to build capacity for partner entities and agencies to use humane and effective methods for handling domestic animal cases and for resolving situations involving human-wildlife conflict. Continued on Schedule O
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 64% for direct work, and 36% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530225390
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2024
- Headquarters
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2024521100
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.8%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 71.4%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.7%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.66; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 77.8% of revenue deployed · 71.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $145.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $702K · 40 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $25M reported
- Consistency: 49 of 49 current checks pass
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 255 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 209 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Leadership & pay
40 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Cristobel Block (President & Chief Executive Officer): $702,371 total reported compensation
- Alison Gregg Corcoran (Chief Development & Marketing Officer): $443,416 total reported compensation
- Erin Frackleton (Chief Operating Officer): $414,906 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2025.