This is a copy of the Form 990-T (Exempt Organization Business Income Tax Return) that HSUS filed for fiscal year 2007. According to the IRS, "Any domestic or foreign organization exempt under section 501(a) or section 529(a) must file Form 990-T if it has gross income from a regularly carried on unrelated trade or business, of $1,000 or more."

For 2007 HSUS reported $135,373 net income from advertising. After deductions, its total unrelated business taxable income was -$100.

Download 2007 HSUS Form 990-T

This is the annual report that HSUS published to describe its program priorities in 2007. 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.

Programs in 2007 included a merger with the Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights to create the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association, the enactment of a federal law to make animal fighting a felony, lobbying food makers to source their food from more "humane" farms, fighting fur production in Canada and China, and gearing up for the "Proposition 2" battle to ban conventional housing for egg-laying hens in California.

In the "HSUS by the Numbers" section, HSUS claimed 10,571,955 "members and constituents," 15 completed "covert investigations," and $6.8 million in grants to animal-care organizations (out of $120.6 million in revenue).

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This document contains a Consolidated Financial Report for the Humane Society of the United States, dated on December 31, 2007.

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, 2007

This is the Form 990 tax return that the National Federation of Humane Societies filed with the IRS for fiscal year 2007.

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 2007 NFHS Form 990

This file is a combination of two similar documents dated October 3 and October 15, 2007, which were obtained from the city of Gaithersburg, Maryland.
(Two documents were merged and identical pages were deleted in the interest of clarity.)

The material itself shows that the Humane Society of the United States owns 10.5 acres of prime real estate along Interstate 270 in Gaithersburg, on which it also owns a two-story commercial building with 67,800 square feet of office space. The building originally belonged to the Tektronix company. At some point in its life, the building's estimated usable space was downgraded to 62,000 square feet.

In 2007, HSUS began to petition the City of Gaithersburg for permission to improve this real estate parcel. HSUS's proposed development would include:

...up to 300,000 square feet of office development in structures between 6 and 12 stories, up to 250-300 residential units in multifamily buildings between 6 and 12 stories, and a combination of above and below ground structured parking ...

HSUS's development plan calls for a groundbreaking after the completion of a new freeway interchange near the site, which is not likely to commence until at least the year 2012.

Download HSUS Real Estate Development Proposal for Gaithersburg, MD, October 2007

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 2006.

According to this report, a professional telemarketing company called The Share Group raised $1,562,814 during 2006 on behalf of the Humane Society of the United States, but HSUS itself only collected $113,686 of this total (a "net" yield of just 7.27 percent).

Download 2007 “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 2007.  

Total revenue: $296,637

Total expenses: $357,343

Net assets at year's end: $75,433

Download 2007 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 2007.

HSY declared that its gross receipts were less than $25,000 and filed a Form 990-N.

Download 2007 HSY Form 990

This is Google's "cache" of an HSUS Internet fund-raising pitch dated July 18, 2007.

It asks Americans to:

"make a special gift to help The Humane Society of the United States care for the dogs seized in the Michael Vick case ... your gift will be put to use right away to care for these dogs."

Two weeks after Google captured this page, HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle told The New York Times that his organization (1) didn't have custody of Michael Vick's dogs; (2) didn't know anything about the conditions in which they were being kept; and (3) recommended to federal government authorities that all of them should be euthanized.

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Download HSUS Fundraising Pitch Related to Michael Vick, 18 July 2007

 This is the Form 990 tax return that the Fund for Animals filed with the IRS for fiscal year 2007.

Total revenue: $8,667,733

Total expenses: $5,429,764

Net assets and end of year: $6,823,762

Download 2007 FFA Form 990

 This is the Form 990 tax return that the Doris Day Animal League filed with the IRS for fiscal year 2007.

Total revenue: $3,426,012

Total expenses: $3,019,612

Net assets at end of year: $1,562,438

Download 2007 DDAL Form 990

Testimony of Center for Consumer Freedom Director of Research David Martosko before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Hearing on Animal Welfare, May 8, 2007.

David Martosko cautioned the committee against giving credence to the arguments of animal rights groups like HSUS, PETA, PCRM, and others, arguing that these groups "are not interested in improving animal agriculture. They seek to dismantle and destroy it. Their true agenda is to put all the real stakeholders out of business."

Download Congressional Testimony, David Martosko, 08-May-2007

 This is the Form 990 tax return that the Center for Respect of Life & Environment filed with the IRS for fiscal year 2007.

CRLE filed a Form 990-N, indicating that its gross revenue for 2007 was less than $25,000.

Download 2007 CRLE Form 990

 This is the Form 990 tax return that the Humane Society International filed with the IRS for fiscal year 2007.  

Total revenue: $2,528,080

Total expenses: $3,084,005

Net assets at year's end: ($10,598,638)

Download 2007 HSI Form 990

 This is the Form 990 tax return that the Humane Society Legislative Fund filed with the IRS for fiscal year 2007.  

Total revenue: $3,524,287

Total expenses: $3,136,890

Net assets at end of year: $451,933

Download 2007 HSLF Form 990

This is HSUS's 2007 Form 990 filed with the IRS.

Total revenue: $101,826,190

Total expenses: $91,518,212

Net assets at end of year: $204,868,764

Download 2007 HSUS Form 990