- Revenue 2024
- $3,077,723
- Expenses 2024
- $2,738,012
Program services were 70.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- D200
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 3670 NEVADA ST
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
Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets' soothing affections with people in need of comfort, and supports and preserves existing pet-guardian relationships.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Valley Humane Society rescues and coordinates companion animal adoptions from its Nevada Street Adoption Center, performs affordable spay/neuter surgeries for the public and more than 40 community rescue partners through its Phil Scholz Veterinary Surgery Center, provides consistent mental health support for the community through its Canine Comfort Pet-Assisted Therapy program, and supports pet guardians in need through the AniMeals Pet Food Pantry and Medical Assistance Fund programs.
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Adoptions and Animal Care -In 2024, Valley Humane Society welcomed 565 cats and dogs into its care, providing each with compassionate sheltering, enrichment, and attentive veterinary support. Through its Adoption Center, 542 animals found loving homeseach placement guided by careful matchmaking and a commitment to every pet's well-being. As a closed-intake shelter, Valley Humane Society accepts animals primarily from municipal shelters and local residents as space allows, ensuring that every pet taken in receives the time and attention needed to fully recover, grow, and thrive. Animals remain in the organization's care until they are adopted, allowing staff and volunteers to provide consistent medical, behavioral, and emotional support throughout their stay. A devoted network of 129 foster families cared for 436 animals throughout the year, creating safe, nurturing environments that expanded the shelter's capacity and offered individualized care when medical or behavioral support was needed. This collaboration between staff and foster volunteers remains essential to preparing animals for successful adoptions. The addition of a part-time shelter veterinarian further strengthened in-house medical capacity, enabling timely exams and preventive treatmentsall contributing to improved health outcomes for adoptable animals.
Expenses $649,130 · Revenue $58,876
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Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.
Expenses $1,192,592 · Revenue $1,527,980
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Canine Comfort and Community Outreach-Valley Humane Society's Canine Comfort Pet-Assisted Therapy program expanded dramatically in 2024, with 112 volunteer teams providing emotional support and companionship throughout the community. These teams visit more than 61 regular locationsincluding hospitals, libraries, senior centers, schools, and corporate campusesbringing comfort and connection to thousands of people each month. New partnerships with Oakland International Airport and Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley significantly increased outreach, enabling Canine Comfort teams to engage with an estimated 16,800 adults monthly, including travelers, patients, students, and seniors. Through the Paws to Read literacy program, 5,619 children improved reading fluency and confidence by practicing alongside therapy dogs, as program locations doubled in 2024. To further address the needs of local pet owners, Valley Humane Society launched its Field Veterinary Program, providing basic veterinary care to pets of low-income or unhoused guardians receiving supportive services. In addition, the AniMeals Pet Food Pantry distributed 246,924 meals to help families in crisis keep their pets healthy and at home. Together, these programs embody the organization's commitment to nurturing the human-animal bond and building a more compassionate community for all.
Expenses $73,110 · Revenue $2,102
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Field Vet Program
Expenses $3,250
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.
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.
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Brian Joyce
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Susan Capello
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Clyde Ogata
Treasurer (JAN-OCT)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Neal Sornsen
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Gina Piper
Executive Committee Officer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Christine Cavello
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Sandy Gardiner
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Kailesh Karavadra
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lori Rice
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Penelope Tamm
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lindsay Tang
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Phillip Vermont
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Heidi White
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Julie Wolfe
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jeff Schneider
Dierctor (JAN-AUG)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Melanie Sadek
President
- Total calculated
- $159,000
- From this org
- $159,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $149,000
- Bonus
- $10,000
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $159,000
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Nozomi Watanabe
Medical Director
- Total calculated
- $177,470
- From this org
- $177,470
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $174,720
- Bonus
- $2,750
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $177,470
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $3,077,723
- Expenses
- $2,738,012
- Contributions
- $1,215,494
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $2,563,435
- Expenses
- $2,527,602
- Contributions
- $1,007,767
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $1,554,940
- Expenses
- $1,682,535
- Contributions
- $834,009
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,378,480
- Expenses
- $1,439,295
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,561,727
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,379,085
- Expenses
- $1,185,191
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,592,264
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $942,659
- Expenses
- $1,062,566
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,357,022
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,325,837
- Expenses
- $1,063,033
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,490,315
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $884,519
- Expenses
- $901,443
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,195,786
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $811,935
- Expenses
- $768,082
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,228,275
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,456,849
- Expenses
- $1,460,972
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,164,073
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $695,871
- Expenses
- $639,373
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,160,600
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $662,655
- Expenses
- $764,403
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,082,679
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $553,415
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,185,930
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
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2024 UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
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2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$32,800
2024 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS
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2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2022 UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
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2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$25,000
2024 ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
California fundraising campaigns
Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.
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AUTOMOTIVE RECOVERY SERVICES INC
$7,500 raised
2021 CF Vehicle Donation Program
$4,024 to charity
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AUTOMOTIVE RECOVERY SERVICES INC
$17,425 raised
2020 CF Vehicle Donation Program
$8,350 to charity
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AUTOMOTIVE RECOVERY SERVICES INC
$20,600 raised
2019 CF Vehicle Donation Program
$9,119 to charity
Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.
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.