Spartanburg Humane Society

What it reported doing in 2024

Our next greatest accomplishment is our committment to adopting healthy animals into our community. We are treating dogs who are heartworm positive as soon as possible after intake in order to begin their "new" lives healthy and ready for permanent homes. Heartworm disease is deadly and is caused by a single mosquito bite to an unprotected dog. Traditionally, heartworm positive dogs are euthanized in most shelters because of expense, and they were euthanized at the spartanburg humane society in the past. But now we are testing them immediately and starting every dog that enters the shelter on prevention and scheduling them for treatment when necessary, but as soon as possible. Both of these measures are extremely expensive but critical to the life of the animals, so we just have to find a way to raise the money continually since our community has not fully bought into heartworm prevention. We have also increased the level of preventative medications for short-term and long-term results for all animals that enter the shelter. We have instituted an additional step in the veterinary care for each animal to ensure that everyone has received the correct core vaccines and prevention even when we are at full capacity. We test all cats for both feline AIDS and feline leukemia, so we are able to let our community know the health status of the cats they are considering for adoption. We are 100% committed to putting healthy, happy animals into our community and for those who have illnesses, we want to fully prepare potential adopters for the continued care that they will need. All animals leave our facility fully vaccinated up to their age, microchipped, spayed/neutered, and with six months of heartworm prevention. Our goal is to start these animals off on the right foot in their new home.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
• Fundraising efficiency: $6.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Limited
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -42.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 12.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings