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AVERY COUNTY N C HUMANE SOCIETY INC

EIN 56-1321762 NEWLAND, NC

Revenue 2024
$875,631
Expenses 2024
$991,156

Program services were 81.0% 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
279 NEW VALE RD

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

OUR MISSION IS TO HELP OUR COMMUNITY RESPOND HUMANELY TO THE NEEDS OF ANIMALS. THE SOCIETY PROVIDES A SHELTER FOR CATS AND DOGS THAT ARE LOST, ABANDONED OR UNWANTED, SPONSORS RABIES CLINICS, OFFERS ACCESS TO LOW-COST SPAY/NEUTER SERVICES, AND A LEASH ON LIFE PRISON PROGRAM.

  • THE SOCIETY PROVIDES A SHELTER FOR CATS AND DOGS THAT ARE LOST, ABANDONED OR UNWANTED, SPONSORS RABIES CLINICS, OFFERS ACCESS TO LOW-COST SPAY/NEUTER SERVICES, AND PARTNERS WITH THE LOCAL PRISON IN THE NEW LEASH ON LIFE OBEDIENCE TRAINING PROGRAM. OUR SHELTER STAFF DOES A SUPER JOB PLACING HOMELESS ANIMALS. OUR WEBSITE IS NETWORKED WITH ADOPTION PROGRAMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND WE HAVE HAD FOLKS COME FROM AS FAR AWAY AS ALABAMA, MICHIGAN, CALIFORNIA, AND CANADA TO ADOPT FROM THE AVERY SHELTER.

    Expenses $802,489

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • NEIL SCHAFFEL

    BOARDMEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JOAN SCHMITT

    BOARDMEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • NANCY MORRISON

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • SCOTT HEINTZELMAN

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • NANCY SCHAFFEL

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • ANN WOLF

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $875,631
    Expenses
    $991,156
    Contributions
    $682,987
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $679,369
    Expenses
    $963,788
    Contributions
    $571,832
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $849,690
    Expenses
    $1,001,388
    Contributions
    $728,139
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $698,401
    Expenses
    $896,360
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,781,497

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,105,996
    Expenses
    $796,566
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,110,956

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,411,817
    Expenses
    $859,155
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,875,494

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,464,412
    Expenses
    $779,448
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,234,571

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $463,991
    Expenses
    $725,126
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,269,262

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $513,189
    Expenses
    $727,379
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,562,522

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.

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.