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CENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC

EIN 83-2620507 BETHESDA, MD

Largest nonprofits in Maryland

Revenue 2024
$2,886,334
Expenses 2024
$2,734,014

Program services were 70.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D05
Classification
4000
Street
PO BOX 30845

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

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.

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.

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,886,334
    Expenses
    $2,734,014
    Contributions
    $2,354,798
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,578,897
    Expenses
    $2,331,151
    Contributions
    $2,308,789
    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
    $3,093,478
    Expenses
    $1,832,275
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,926,681

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,332,941
    Expenses
    $982,662
    Assets (EOY)
    $749,268

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $667,923
    Expenses
    $431,559
    Assets (EOY)
    $352,841

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