Humane Fort Wayne Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Humane fort wayne consists of a limited intake shelter and low-cost spay/neuter and wellness clinic for cats and dogs. Our adoptable shelter animals come to the organization through community members who can no longer take care of their pets as owner-surrenders and through our transfer program, which supports hundreds of animals from municipal and private shelters throughout northeast Indiana and Ohio. The animals in the transfer program would otherwise be euthanized. Our low-cost spay/neuter and wellness clinic serves primarily northeast Indiana and regional clients from Ohio and Michigan. Humane fort wayne also provides supportive services to pet owners in an effort to keep pets in loving homes and out of shelters. Services include a pet food pantry, limited financial assistance for animals, wellness/sterilization/veterinary care, in-home services for the elderly or disabled, and compassion foster services for pet owners in crisis. Animal care division all services concerned with animal care are attributable to this area including animal admission, foster care, adoptions, adoption counseling, lost pet program, housing, nutrition, kennel sanitation, security, building maintenance, equipment maintenance, supplies for all aspects of animal care, motor vehicle maintenance and upkeep, grounds and special projects. In 2025, we completed 3,084 adoptions. Animal health division this division is crucial to satisfying the overall mission of the organization. Our spay/neuter and wellness clinics offer quality, affordable services for owned animals, pets housed in other shelters/rescues, and community cats. Through our spay/neuter clinic, we not only ensure that animal welfare organizations are able to spay/neuter pets before adoption, but also promote responsible pet ownership by limiting animal overpopulation through the prevention of unwanted pregnancies. In 2025, our clinic completed 12,081 spay/neuter surgeries. Our wellness clinic offers basic veterinary care for primarily owned cats and dogs. We provide all maintenance and preventative needs for the animal including medical examinations, vaccines/boosters, heartworm testing/preventative, testing for deadly diseases, laboratory diagnostic, grooming, therapy, parasite control, personnel training, and liaising with full service veterinary professionals as needed. It includes special projects and unique medical challenges as necessary. In 2025, the wellness clinic served a total of 15,453 pets. Humane services division this area is utilized to promote the humane treatment of animals, educate the community about our organization's programs and services as well as asking for corporations, foundations and individuals to financially support our mission. The specific services in this area include our volunteer program, our community outreach program, our membership program, marketing, public relations, resource development and special projects. We had 874 volunteers provide 20,374 hours of service to our organization with duties ranging from socialization of our animals including walks and social stimulation as well as staffing community outreach events, aiding in monthly mailings of our communication pieces, fostering animals with special needs, and general up keep of the shelter. Our volunteers are also vital to the continuation and facilitation of our weekly pet food distributions which provided 243,113 pounds of food to pets in need during 2025. The food provided comes from our collections from speical events, local food drives, and dozens of indivdiduals who give regularly to our organization.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 70.2%; rating input score 70
• Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
• Fundraising efficiency: $11.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Missing
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 13.7%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.67; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings