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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by CENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,886,334
Total expenses
$2,734,014
Contributions and grants received
$2,354,798
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$400,522
Investment income
$131,014
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$3,619,179
Total liabilities, end of year
$517,383
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$3,101,796
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,930,280
Management and general expenses
$642,247
Fundraising expenses
$161,487
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,930,280

Program services were 70.6% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $2,354,798

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $610,183

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Animal Welfare Mgmt. C

    total $400,522 · related or exempt $400,522

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $98,066 · excluded $98,066

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $643,131

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $610,183

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $32,948

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $32,948 · excluded $32,948

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,400,175 · program services $781,715 · management and general $511,070 · fundraising $107,390

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $32,318 · program services $16,849 · management and general $13,102 · fundraising $2,367

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $49,122 · program services $34,479 · management and general $9,800 · fundraising $4,843

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $115,841 · program services $64,423 · management and general $42,644 · fundraising $8,774

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $78,681 · program services $78,681

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $13,105 · management and general $13,105

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $208,100 · program services $208,100

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $400,575 · program services $393,816 · management and general $4,809 · fundraising $1,950

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $39,247 · management and general $39,247

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $37,336 · program services $24,462 · management and general $1,400 · fundraising $11,474

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $54,096 · program services $45,402 · management and general $1,062 · fundraising $7,632

  • 17 · Travel

    total $35,243 · program services $33,481 · management and general $1,057 · fundraising $705

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $14,932 · program services $14,185 · management and general $299 · fundraising $448

  • 24a · Other expenses: Direct animal advocacy

    total $166,974 · program services $166,974

  • 24b · Other expenses: Donor list building

    total $76,320 · program services $61,056 · fundraising $15,264

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $11,949 · program services $6,657 · management and general $4,652 · fundraising $640

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $305,146 · end of year $302,133

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $2,450,283 · end of year $2,851,146

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $5,893

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $724,948 · end of year $439,746

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $10,278 · end of year $20,261

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $680,550 · end of year $517,383

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,828,560 · end of year $2,104,858

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $981,545 · end of year $996,938

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

In a capitalist economy and social order, the workings of business shape the fate of animals on a vast scale, determining how they are raised, traded, tested on, and killed. The Center for a Humane Economy doesn't accept these adverse outcomes, seeking instead to change the economic architecture that governs human dealings with other species and to demonstrate that commerce must come without cruelty.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Center is a unique non-profit animal welfare organization that has as its focus the influencing of the behavior of corporations in order to create a humane economic order. The Center leads campaigns on numerous corporate animal welfare issues, engages companies to convince them to transition to humane animal practices, and educates consumers by alerting them to animal welfare issue transgressors and highlighting innovators leading to alternatives.

  • *Pressed global athletic brands to stop sourcing wild animal skins, particularly kangaroos.*Continued push to shut down animal fighting.*Demanded wind down of animal testing and move to human-relevant methods.*Confronted agribusiness giants about keeping animals in immobilizing cages and crates and supported cage-free production standards.*Demanded forest product companies not assault owls.See Sch O for additional details.

    Expenses $1,930,280 · Revenue $400,522

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Sherry Kellett

    Director & Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Gerry Boss

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Cynthia Griffin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jennifer Sulivan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Rene Tatro

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Muriel Van Housen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Dr David Wiebers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Wayne Pacelle

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Karen Duarte

    Director of Philanthropy

    Total calculated
    $143,697
    From this org
    $133,224
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,473
    Hours/week
    40

  • Zachary Bennett

    Senior Policy Counsel

    Total calculated
    $164,957
    From this org
    $154,034
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,923
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,034
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,650
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,273
    Filer's total
    $164,957

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

Answered yes

None.

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
30 August 2026
IRS schema version
2024v5.5
Source object
202622429349300307

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