Oregon Humane

What it reported doing in 2025

Sheltering and adoptions: in 2025, ohs placed 12,478 pets with new families in Oregon, the pacific northwest, and beyond. The animals that found new homes constitute an overall live release rate (lrr) of 97%. Through the second chance program, ohs saves more lives by accepting animals from shelters, nonprofit rescue groups, and animal service agencies across Oregon as well as partner shelters in other states such as California, Washington, Hawaii, Louisiana, and Texas. Many of these shelters are often under-resourced and struggle with too many animals and too few adopters. In 2025, 7,017 animals were accepted from 62 partner organizations.live release rates for 2025: ohs uses live release rate (lrr) to track the outcome of animals that are brought into its shelters. The lrr accurately reflects the many options for pets that come to the shelter in addition to adoptions - for example, animal transfers to other rescue organizations and animals that are returned to their owners. The lrr does not include end-of-life services.ohs released a total of 12,904 animals. Ohs overall lrr: 97%portland campus live release rate: 98%salem campus live release rate: 95%length of stay for 2025: ohs calculates the average length of stay (los) by including the day of arrival through the day of disposition (adoption, transfer, euthanasia, or return to owner). The los reflects the entirety of the time the animal was in the care of the organization, including stray animal holding periods, time in foster care, behavioral rehabilitation, and protective custody in criminal cases.portland campus los: dog los averaged 17.5 days (puppies averaged 9.3 days) cat los averaged 13.1 days (kittens averaged 16.2 days)salem campus los: dog los averaged 10.1 days (puppies averaged 10.6 days) cat los averaged 16.3 days (kittens averaged 21.7 days)off-site adoption: bringing pets out into the community for adoption is another way that ohs maintains a high lrr. A total of 373 animals found homes directly through our off-site adoption events.medical services - holman animal medical learning center: during the year ended december 31, 2025, Oregon humane performed 11,921 surgeries in the holman animal medical learning center (amlc) on the portland campus, including 6,272 spay/neuter surgeries for shelter pets, 4,980 spay/neuter surgeries for owned pets through the spay & save program, plus 669 other essential and emergency surgeries. In addition, the amlc provided 13,221 medical exams for pets, and helped train 115 Oregon state university veterinary students. Best friends' corner: ohs operates a retail store located in the lobby of the portland shelter. The store stocks a variety of goods that a new adopter may need to make their new pet feel at home. In 2025: gross sales: $420,455net loss: $61,299.46 (after depreciation and allocations)volunteers: ohs volunteers change the world for each dog, cat, rabbit, rodent, or bird they help. Volunteers make our work possible and the lives of our animals and team better through so many kind and compassionate actions, from offering daily walks, acclimating animals to humans, getting animals settled in the shelter to providing a helping hand to our team. Foster care has contributed significantly to Oregon humane's volunteer hours. Donating 416,720 hours of service to all programs offered at ohs in 2025, volunteers provided services equivalent to 200 full-time employees.total volunteer hours: 416,720 (including foster volunteer hours)total number of individuals volunteering their time to ohs was 2,769.youth and community groups program: individuals who participated in the youth volunteer program numbered 340, providing 10,443 volunteer hours.foster care: there were 909 foster care volunteer families, volunteering 311,943 hours.animals fostered totaled 2,825primary reasons for foster care: they were too young for adoption.they were underweight.they were recovering from a medical condition.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 89.6%; rating input score 90
• Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
• Fundraising efficiency: $6.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• 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; 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: -8.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.8; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings