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KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY

EIN 61-0463938 LOUISVILLE, KY

Largest nonprofits in Kentucky

Revenue 2024
$17,942,670
Expenses 2024
$9,498,868

Program services were 83.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D200
Classification
4000
Street
1000 LYNDON LN

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY IS A CHAMPION FOR COMPANION ANIMALS, THROUGH LEADERSHIP, EDUCATION AND PROACTIVE SOLUTIONS, WE ARE CREATING MORE COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES.

  • KHS IS KENTUCKY'S LARGEST ANIMAL ADOPTION AGENCY, FINDING LOVING HOMES FOR 5,254 IN 2025. THIS INCLUDES 5,034 CATS, DOGS, AND HORSES WHO WERE ADOPTED AT OUR MAIN CAMPUS, EAST CAMPUS, WILLOW HOPE FARM AND OUR ADOPTION PARTNER, PURRFECT DAY CAFE. ANOTHER 220 ANIMALS FOUND HOMES THROUGH PARTNER TRANSFERS.

    Expenses $2,325,930 · Revenue $740,036

  • FERN CREEK AND EASTPOINT PET RESORTS - BOARDING, GROMING, AND DAY CARE OF OWNED PETS, PROCEEDS FROM OPERATIONS SUPPORT THE MISSION OF KHS AND CARE FOR COMPANION ANIMALS.

    Expenses $3,150,123 · Revenue $990,169

  • OUR S.N.I.P. CLINIC PROVIDES HIGH-QUALITY, LOW-COST SPAY/NEUTER SURGERIES TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS IN SHELTERS AND REMOVE FINANCIAL BARRIERS THAT MAY PREVENT CARING PET OWNERS FROM SPAYING OR NEUTERING THEIR PET. IN 2025, THE S.N.I.P. CLINIC PERFORMED 9,735 SURGERIES, 42% OF WHICH WERE FREE OR DISCOUNTED, INCLUDING FREE SURGERIES FOR PIT BULLS TO HELP ADDRESS BREEDS OVERPOPULATION.

    Expenses $1,908,741 · Revenue $1,020,765

  • OTHER SERVICES INCLUDE DOG TRAINING FOR OWNED PETS, BASIC VETERINARY CARE FOR OVER 5,000 OWNED DOGS AND CATS, HORSE RESCUE, AND A FREE PET HELP LINE FOR LOCAL PET OWNERS. OUR PET RESOURCE SERVICES SERVED MORE THAN 5,364 PET OWNERS IN 2025, HELPING FAMILIES KEEP THEIR PETS HAPPY, HEALTHY AND OUT OF SHELTERS. STRUGGLING PET OWNERS REACHED OUT FOR FREE ADVICE, FINANCIAL AID, PET FOOD, SUPPLIES AND MORE TO OVERCOME DIFFICULTIES CARING FOR THEIR PETS. THE PROGRAM ISSUED 600 DISCOUNTED VETERINARY CARE VOUCHERS, BOARDING VOUCHERS, PET DEPOSIT VOUCHERS AND PRIVATE TRAINING VOUCHERS THAT WERE REDEEMED BY PET OWNERS. OUR CARE-A-VAN MOBILE VETERINARY CLINIC SERVED LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES WITH 5,028 WELLNESS APPOINTMENTS AND 1,919 SPAY/NEUTER SURGERIES.

    Expenses $552,107 · Revenue $911,579

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

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Tara Bristow

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tony Deye

    CHAIR ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Melissa Hicks

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rachel Horton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Leigh Anne Hughes

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Chris Kramer

    FINANCE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Patrick Padgett

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ellen Stubbs

    BOARD SECRET

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Karen Williams

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Landon Brantley

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Shari Ammon

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Toni Clem

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alisa Gray

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $163,952
    From this org
    $163,952
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $163,952
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $163,952
  • Britney Chaney

    COO

    Total calculated
    $140,984
    From this org
    $140,984
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Emily Bewley

    VET SERVICE

    Total calculated
    $142,764
    From this org
    $142,764
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Chaya Hirsch

    VET SERVICE

    Total calculated
    $127,708
    From this org
    $127,708
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Karen Koenig

    VP OF ANIMAL WELFARE

    Total calculated
    $102,757
    From this org
    $102,757
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $17,942,670
    Expenses
    $9,498,868
    Contributions
    $13,128,589
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,869,268
    Expenses
    $9,551,181
    Contributions
    $6,721,882
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,602,939
    Expenses
    $9,497,201
    Contributions
    $7,014,111
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,122,630
    Expenses
    $8,492,831
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,172,890
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,144,330
    Expenses
    $6,912,694
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,399,127
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,144,330
    Expenses
    $6,912,694
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,399,127
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,511,114
    Expenses
    $7,227,880
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,255,434

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.