This is the annual report that HSUS published to describe its program priorities in 2006. It contains a message from president Wayne Pacelle to supporters, testimonials from a selection of HSUS employees, and a summary of its program accomplishments and consolidated financial data.

Lists of major donors and all mentions of HSUS's signature "Pets for Life" program were excluded from the 2006 annual report. Programs that were highlighted included a successful ballot initiative in Arizona to ban the use of gestation crates for pigs, legal petitions at the federal level filed by the HSUS Animal Protection Litigation team (now in its second year), legislation targeting commercial dog and cat breeding operations, efforts to ban whaling in Japan, and a merger with the Doris Day Animal League.

The 2006 annual report notes that HSUS's employee roster has expanded to "more than 400."

Download 2006 HSUS Annual Report

This document contains a Consolidated Financial Report for the Humane Society of the United States, dated on December 31, 2006.

It was prepared by the public accounting firm of McGladrey & Pullen. HSUS filed it with the West Virginia Secretary of State's office, as part of the process of renewing a fundraising license for the Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust. It's now a part of the public record.

Download HSUS Consolidated Financial Statements, dated December 31, 2006

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This 208-page document contains selected portions (those related to the Humane Society of the United States) of the collection of papers left to Texas Tech University upon Amy Freeman Lee's death in 2004. Lee, a well-regarded artist and Texas philanthropist, was a member of the HSUS Board of Directors for 35 years—the longest-serving Director in the organization's history.

The papers were retrieved in November 2006 with the assistance of the Texas Tech University Special Collections Library.

Notable contents include:

• pp. 2-7: program from the 1992 HSUS Annual Conference
• p. 37: table of contents from The Humane Society of the United States News, Summer 1977, indicates that HSUS was engaged in "accredit[ing]" animal shelters 23 years ago
• p. 54: a May 1993 San Antonio Express-News op-ed written by Amy Freeman Lee, indicating that HSUS worked "pro bono" to upgrade and improve San Antonio's municipal animal shelter (a service for which today's HSUS charges tens of thousands of dollars)
• pp. 55-56: A "Report to the Board [of HSUS] Regarding the North American Free Trade Agreement," which describes how HSUS "has been working closely with ... The Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and Friends of the Earth" to water down NAFTA—especially concerning animal-related federal laws that NAFTA (they feared) might supersede.
• pp. 79-82: program from the 1985 HSUS Annual Conference
• pp. 105-108: program from the 1972 HSUS Annual Conference
• pp. 109-112: program from the 1970 HSUS Annual Conference
• p. 117: agenda from the 1975 HSUS Annual Conference
• pp. 119-122: program from the 1973 HSUS Annual Conference
• pp. 129-132: program from the 1979 HSUS Annual Conference
• pp. 142-146: a cumulative list of HSUS Board members and their years of service, from the group's inception through October 1996
• pp. 147-150: a listing of "Speakers and Guests" at the HSUS 1996 Annual Conference
• pp. 161-165: program from the 1996 HSUS Annual Conference
• pp. 173-178: program from the 1989 HSUS Annual Conference
• pp. 181-182: list of HSUS "Officers and Staff in Attendance at the 1989 Annual Conference"
• pp. 203-204: 1993 HSUS direct-mail "Action Alert" urging members to lobby their U.S.Congressmen on a proposed marine-mammal law
• pp. 207-208: 1993 HSUS flyer against biology-class laboratory disscetion, published by HSUS's "youth education division" (Note: today this issue is more closely identified with PETA and other more obviously radical organizations)

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This is the Form 990 tax return that the National Federation of Humane Societies filed with the IRS for fiscal year 2006.

NFHS Executive Director Steve Putnam was a vice president at HSUS from 1997 to 2007. According to NFHS’s filings with the IRS, former HSUS door-kicker Scotlund Haisley was also an NFHS board member in the past. And on its tax returns, all the board members have the same address: 2100 L Street, the downtown Washington HSUS building. Wayne Pacelle's official bio states that he co-founded NFHS in 2006.

Download 2006 NFHS Form 990

This is the "Pennies For Charity Report from the Charities Bureau of the New York state Attorney General's office. It consists of statistics covering telemarketing campaigns conducted on behalf of charitable organizations in New York during 2005.

According to this report, a professional telemarketing company called The Share Group raised $2,730,720 during 2005 on behalf of the Humane Society of the United States, but HSUS itself only collected $545,843 of this total (a "net" yield of just 19.99 percent).

Download 2006 “Pennies For Charity” Report, New York Attorney General

 This is the Form 990 tax return that the Species Survival Network filed with the IRS for fiscal year 2006.  

Total revenue: $198,539

Total expenses: $156,673

Net assets at year's end: $136,139

Download 2006 SSN Form 990

 This is the Form 990 tax return that Humane Society: Youth (formerly the National Association for Humane and Environmental Education) filed with the IRS for fiscal year 2006.  

Total revenue: $750,233

Total expenses: $1,928,980

Net assets at year's end: ($8,716,368)

Download 2006 HSY Form 990

 This is the Form 990 tax return that the Fund for Animals filed with the IRS for fiscal year 2006.  

Total revenue: $6,873,747

Total expenses: $4,865,214

Net assets and end of year: $3,585,763

Download 2006 FFA Form 990

 This is the Form 990 tax return that the Doris Day Animal League filed with the IRS for fiscal year 2006.  

Total revenue: $3,623,977

Total expenses: $3,638,986

Net assets at end of year: $1,157,375

Download 2006 DDAL Form 990

 This is the Form 990 tax return that the Center for Respect of Life & Environment filed with the IRS for fiscal year 2006.  

Total revenue: $9,088

Total expenses: $550,063

Net assets at end of year: ($4,657,939)

Download 2006 CRLE Form 990

 This is the Form 990 tax return that the Humane Society International filed with the IRS for fiscal year 2006.    

Total revenue: $3,049,538

Total expenses: $4,722,667

Net assets at year's end: ($11,267,542)

Download 2006 HSI Form 990

 This is the Form 990 tax return that the Humane Society Legislative Fund filed with the IRS for fiscal year 2006.    

Total revenue: $3,060,581

Total expenses: $3,325,029

Net assets at end of year: $68,545

Download 2006 HSLF Form 990

This is HSUS's IRS Form 990 tax return for FY2006.

Total revenue: $100,775,962

Total expenses: $85,827,023

Net assets at end of year: $225,735,717

Download 2006 HSUS Form 990