Oklahoma Humane Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208446621
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Oklahoma City, OK, US
- Phone
- 405-286-1229
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,976,779
- Expenses
- $4,297,098
- Assets
- $19,596,705
- Liabilities
- $487,971
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK EBY (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MARK EBY (CEO): $125,893 total reported compensation
- AMANDA ELMENHORST (MEDICAL DIRECTOR): $117,016 total reported compensation
- EMILY KEITH DVM (VETERINARIAN): $102,460 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to help ease the burden of care on our shelter partners and neighbors by placing these animals into specially trained foster homes where they can grow and develop in a stress-free environment.
What it reported doing in 2024
Spay and neuter and in-house clinics: in an effort to reduce the birth of unwanted pets and intake at the Oklahoma city animal shelter, the Oklahoma humane society has a high volume, low cost spay and neuter clinic that performs surgeries on pets placed through the adoption program, publicly owned pets and free roaming cats. Our in-house clinic serves the medical needs of the in-program foster animals, animals in other local rescue programs, and houses the neonate clinic. The neonate program serves kittens and puppies under the age of 6 weeks old; the most vulnerable population in our city shelters and communities. Our mission is to help ease the burden of care on our shelter partners and neighbors by placing these animals into specially trained foster homes where they can grow and develop in a stress-free environment. Over the past 4 years, ok humane has helped over 4,000 animals through our neonate program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16.7%; rating input score 17
- Program expense ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $31.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 78.5%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.56; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 16.7% of revenue deployed · 76.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $3.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $126K · 23 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $310K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.