Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$22,145,897

Total expenses

$21,682,964

Contributions and grants received

$20,861,931

Grants paid

$4,261,891

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$1,246,085

Other revenue

$37,881

Total assets, end of year

$27,027,708

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,608,783

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$25,418,925

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$14,619,381

Management and general expenses

$4,375,357

Fundraising expenses

$2,688,226

Program service expenses (Part III)

$14,619,381

Program services were 67.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2025

• IN 2025, THE HUMANE LEAGUE CONTINUED ITS COMMITMENT TO FIXING OUR BROKEN FOOD SYSTEM, FREEING FARMED ANIMALS FROM CAGES, AND ENDING THE CRUELEST PRACTICES ON FACTORY FARMS.SECURING CORPORATE COMMITMENTS AND DRIVING INDUSTRY-WIDE CHANGE THL'S STRATEGIC CAMPAIGNS AND CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT RESULTED IN SIGNIFICANT VICTORIES FOR ANIMALS THIS YEAR. WE SECURED BRAND NEW CORPORATE COMMITMENTS TO END THE USE OF CAGES IN THEIR SUPPLY CHAINS THAT WILL SPARE 1.6 MILLION HENS AROUND THE WORLD FROM THE CRUELTY OF EXTREME CONFINEMENT. AND THANKS TO DECADES OF CONTINUOUS EFFORT, 46.4% OF EGG-LAYING HENS IN THE US LIVED OUTSIDE A CAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME, A HISTORIC HIGH.THROUGH OUR GLOBAL COALITION, WE SECURED 234 NEW CORPORATE COMMITMENTS FOR CHICKENS AROUND THE WORLD, WITH MORE THAN 60 OF THOSE COMMITMENTS ESTABLISHED IN AFRICA. HOLDING CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABLE RELENTLESS CAMPAIGNING PUSHED MAJOR BRANDS TO ACT. OUR TARGETED EFFORTS AGAINST SUBWAY RESULTED IN THE COMPANY COMMITTING TO FULLY TRANSITION TO 100% CAGE-FREE EGGS IN THE US AHEAD OF ITS ORIGINAL DEADLINE, SPARING NEARLY 340,000 HENS ANNUALLY. WE ALSO LAUNCHED A MASSIVE PRESSURE CAMPAIGN AGAINST GROCERY GIANT AHOLD DELHAIZE, SENDING OVER 321,000 MESSAGES TO DECISION-MAKERS DEMANDING THAT THEY FOLLOW THROUGH ON THEIR PUBLIC COMMITMENT TO GO CAGE-FREE. WHEN HOSPITALITY GIANT BEST WESTERN HOTELS WENT SILENT ON THEIR CAGE-FREE COMMITMENT, INTERNATIONAL ADVOCATES FROM PERU TO POLAND JOINED FORCES TO PROTEST AND PETITION UNTIL THE COMPANY FINALLY REPORTED MEANINGFUL PROGRESS TOWARD SPARING HENS.WE PARTNERED TO RELEASE THE WORLD'S LARGEST INVESTIGATION INTO INDUSTRIALIZED EGG FARMS, FEATURING FOOTAGE FROM 37 COUNTRIES. THIS INVESTIGATION LED TO PROACTIVE PROGRESS REPORTING FROM COMPASS GROUP, THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY, AND WALMART, AS WELL AS THE PERMANENT SHUTDOWN OF A 45,000-HEN CAGE FARM IN BULGARIA. OVERALL, WE PRESSURED 131 COMPANIES TO MAKE PROGRESS TOWARD THEIR PROMISES, IMPACTING MORE THAN 160 MILLION HENS, AND SAW A 92% FULFILLMENT RATE FOR CORPORATE CAGE-FREE COMMITMENTS WITH DEADLINES OF 2024 OR EARLIER.DEFENDING AND EXPANDING ANIMAL PROTECTIONSIN 2025, THE ANIMAL POLICY ALLIANCE (APA) AND THL FOUGHT TO DEFEND HARD-WON ANIMAL PROTECTIONS, AND THE APA EXPANDED ITS REACH TO 31 MEMBERS ACROSS 21 STATES AND WASHINGTON, DC. WE DEFENDED CALIFORNIA'S PROPOSITION 12 AND MASSACHUSETTS' QUESTION 3 IN THE COURTS, AND FOUGHT OFF ATTACKS ON CAGE-FREE LAWS IN ARIZONA, COLORADO, OREGON, AND MICHIGAN. AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, WE PUSHED BACK ON THE EATS ACT AND "SAVE OUR BACON" ACT, SECURING OPPOSITION LETTERS FROM 228 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. THROUGH $300K IN GRANTS TO 12 APA MEMBER GROUPS, WE ALSO SUPPORTED 10 MAJOR LEGISLATIVE VICTORIES, INCLUDING A FOIE GRAS SALES BAN IN BROOKLINE, MA, AND A 'PLANT-BASED BY DEFAULT' POLICY FOR GOVERNMENT MEETINGS IN HENNEPIN COUNTY, MN.BUILDING OUR MOVEMENT OUR ANIMAL PROTECTION MOVEMENT CONTINUED TO EXPAND GLOBALLY THROUGH THE OPEN WING ALLIANCE (OWA), WHICH GREW TO 82 TRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS 72 COUNTRIES. TO SUPPORT THIS GROWING NETWORK, OWA AWARDED OVER $2M IN FUNDING TO 36 GROUPS ACROSS 30 COUNTRIES AND 6 CONTINENTS, INCLUDING FIRST-TIME GRANTEES IN AUSTRALIA, CHILE, COLOMBIA, HUNGARY, INDONESIA, AND ITALY. OUR GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM DEMONSTRATED IMPRESSIVE REACH AND IMPACT, WITH OVER 6,180 ACTIONS TAKEN BY NEARLY 1,300 CHANGEMAKERS AND OVER 1.48 MILLION MESSAGES SENT TO DECISION-MAKERS DEMANDING CHANGE. THE MOVEMENT'S STRENGTH WAS FURTHER DEMONSTRATED BY OVER 56,000 DONATIONS FROM 15,400 GENEROUS SUPPORTERS. THIS EXPANDING COALITION OF ACTIVISTS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND SUPPORTERS CONTINUES TO STRENGTHEN OUR GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION, CREATING LASTING CHANGE FOR ANIMALS WORLDWIDE.

  Expenses $14,619,381 · Grants $4,261,891 · Revenue $3,414

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• ANIMAL ACTIVIST LEGAL DEFENSE PROJECT VIA UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

  $50,000

  DONATION FROM THL TO THE ANIMAL ACTIVIST LEGAL DEFENSE PROJECT

• CHILIS ON WHEELS VIA A WELL-FED WORLD

  $45,000

  LOBBYING AND CAMPAIGN INITIATIVES THAT PROTECT ANIMALS SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF FACTORY FARMING, THE FUR INDUSTRY AND THE SEAFOOD INDUSTRY, SERVING AS A MEMBER OF THE ANIMAL POLICY ALLIANCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

• HUMANE ACTION PENNSYLVANIA

  $45,000

  LOBBYING AND CAMPAIGN INITIATIVES THAT PROTECT ANIMALS SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF FACTORY FARMING, THE FUR INDUSTRY AND THE SEAFOOD INDUSTRY, SERVING AS A MEMBER OF THE ANIMAL POLICY ALLIANCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

• NORTHWEST ANIMAL RIGHTS NETWORK (NARN)

  $41,000

  LOBBYING AND CAMPAIGN INITIATIVES THAT PROTECT ANIMALS SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF FACTORY FARMING, THE FUR INDUSTRY AND THE SEAFOOD INDUSTRY, SERVING AS A MEMBER OF THE ANIMAL POLICY ALLIANCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

• DC VOTERS FOR ANIMALS EDUCATION FUND

  $38,000

  LOBBYING AND CAMPAIGN INITIATIVES THAT PROTECT ANIMALS SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF FACTORY FARMING, THE FUR INDUSTRY AND THE SEAFOOD INDUSTRY

• MISSOURI ALLIANCE FOR ANIMAL LEGISLATION

  $30,000

  LOBBYING AND CAMPAIGN INITIATIVES THAT PROTECT ANIMALS SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF FACTORY FARMING, THE FUR INDUSTRY AND THE SEAFOOD INDUSTRY

• VOTERS FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS

  $30,000

  LOBBYING AND CAMPAIGN INITIATIVES THAT PROTECT ANIMALS SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF FACTORY FARMING, THE FUR INDUSTRY AND THE SEAFOOD INDUSTRY

• ANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO

  $20,000

  LOBBYING AND CAMPAIGN INITIATIVES THAT PROTECT ANIMALS SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF FACTORY FARMING, THE FUR INDUSTRY AND THE SEAFOOD INDUSTRY

• COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS

  $18,000

  LOBBYING AND CAMPAIGN INITIATIVES THAT PROTECT ANIMALS SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF FACTORY FARMING, THE FUR INDUSTRY AND THE SEAFOOD INDUSTRY

• SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF INSECTS

  $18,000

  LOBBYING AND CAMPAIGN INITIATIVES THAT PROTECT ANIMALS SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF FACTORY FARMING, THE FUR INDUSTRY AND THE SEAFOOD INDUSTRY

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

5 May 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.1

Source object

202621279349301542

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