Mission Impact
Fiscal Year 2024
Annual Reports
Humane Society Silicon Valley’s (HSSV) Fiscal Year Annual Report provides an overview of our organization’s accomplishments for the previous year and a summary of our financial operations—achievements made possible through the generosity of our supporters and community. For more information about HSSV and our work and financial operations, contact our Development Department at 408-262-2133 x132 or development@hssv.org.
Form 990s
HSSV, as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, each year files a Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service to provide information to the public on our organization’s finances and activities. As part of our commitment to transparency and accountability, we make available our IRS Form 990s. These documents are available for download below in PDF format. For questions regarding our 990s, please contact our finance department at 408-262-2133 x142.
Audit Reports
We hope to continue to build our reputation for integrity, transparency, and professionalism by having a regular independent audit conducted and making it available to stakeholders and the public. We also want to assure our supporters and potential supporters that our financial practices meet accepted standards. For questions regarding our Independent Audits, please contact our finance department at 408-262-2133 x142.
Asilomar Reports
By utilizing a standard language for their statistics, shelters and their supporters are able to easily and clearly track progress both at a specific shelter and across shelters nationwide. The document aims to cut through the rhetoric of “no kill” vs. “limited admission” vs. “open admission” shelters and to dispel the murkiness of what defines an adoptable animal.
What are the Asilomar Accords?
The Asilomar Accords outline principles that guide animal welfare organizations to work together to save the lives of all healthy and treatable companion animals. The animal sheltering world hasn’t always been clear or consistent when it comes to reporting results. Without the Asilomar Accords, definitions and reporting methods varied from group to group, making understanding of information difficult, if not impossible, across organizations.
How Can I Understand the Statistics?
Euthanasia statistics are represented in four categories: healthy, treatable/rehabilitative, treatable/manageable, and unhealthy/untreatable. Learn more about these categories at Shelter Animals Count. These clear definitions allow our community to understand the euthanasia statistics for their local animal welfare organizations without the confusion of unclear or unethical reporting.
The Live Release Rate is perhaps the most compelling of the statistics. The Live Release Rate reveals the percentage of animals that leave the shelter alive regardless of their health or behavior status. This measurement eliminates any subjective definition of the word “adoptable”.
Beginning in 2006, Silicon Valley Animal Control Authority (SVACA), San Jose Animal Care & Services (SJACS), and Humane Society Silicon Valley (HSSV) agreed to share statistical animal information and to standardize definitions. In 2008, SVACA, SJACS and HSSV deepened that effort to include standards for euthanasia classifications.
Using these survey results, the alliance crafted its Pet Evaluation Matrix (PEM). By January 2011, all alliance shelters were using the same PEM to assess and classify incoming and outgoing animals. It is important to note that our alliance does not allow this PEM to dictate whether an individual animal should or will be treated for a specific condition.
How Do We Calculate the Lifesaving Percentage?
Adjusted Intake – (Adjusted Euthanasia + Died In Care) / Adjusted Intake
Asilomar Reports
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