2026-08-30T16:37:15-05:00 2025-10-31 582676261 Rogers & Company PLLC 1775 Tysons Boulevard Suite 1200 McLean VA 22102 990 2024-11-01 832620507 Center for a Humane Economy Inc CENT 3368131677 PO Box 30845 Bethesda MD 20824 Sherry Kellett Treasurer 3368131677 2026-08-30 1 1 Amanda E Waterhouse P02014004 7038930300 2026-08-30 2024 Wayne P Pacelle PO Box 30845 Bethesda MD 20824 3496517 0 X centerforahumaneeconomy.org X 2018 MD 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. 7 7 16 125 0 0 3254261 2354798 518817 400522 96124 131014 0 0 3869202 2886334 0 0 0 0 1574517 1597456 0 0 161487 1630642 1136558 3205159 2734014 664043 152320 3490655 3619179 680550 517383 2810105 3101796 X 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. 0 0 1930280 400522 *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. 1930280 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14 0 1 16 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 CA FL MD MN NJ NM NY NC OK OR WA X X Sherry Kellett 3368131677 631 Raggedy Road Clyde NC 28721 X Sherry Kellett Director & Treasurer 20.00 X X 0 0 0 Gerry Boss Director 3.00 X 0 0 0 Cynthia Griffin Director 3.00 X 0 0 0 Jennifer Sulivan Director 3.00 X 0 0 0 Rene Tatro Director 3.00 X 0 0 0 Muriel Van Housen Director 5.00 X 0 0 0 Dr David Wiebers Director 3.00 X 0 0 0 Wayne Pacelle President 30.00 X 0 0 0 Karen Duarte Director of Philanthropy 40.00 X 133224 0 10473 Zachary Bennett Senior Policy Counsel 40.00 X 154034 0 10923 287258 0 21396 2 0 1 0 0 2354798 610183 2354798 Animal Welfare Mgmt. 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Form 990, Part III, Line 4a Over the past year, we called out business operations of many of the most powerful sectors of the economy - agriculture, pharmaceuticals, forestry, athletic wear, wildlife management, and spectator sports, to name a few. That work took many forms in 2025, pressing global athletic brands to stop sourcing wild animal skins for their shoes, demanding that pharmaceutical leaders work to wind down animal testing in place of human-relevant methods, confronting multinational agribusiness giants investing in infrastructure to keep animals in immobilizing cages and crates, and demanding that forest product companies not wage an assault on the owls that quietly occupy the canopies of these above-ground ecosystems. This market-centered strategy is distinct from, but deeply complementary to, the legislative and political work of our sister organization, Animal Wellness Action (AWA). While that organization works to pass laws and demand their enforcement, the Center focuses on the conduct underlying commerce, influencing corporate sourcing decisions, research and development, and other core operations. When synchronized, these approaches act as dual levers to influence businesses and the markets they form. In 2025, we reached a milestone in a four-year global campaign to protect Australia's best-known marsupials: we secured agreements from the last global athletic wear holdouts on killing kangaroos to make soccer shoes. Adidas relented after we were able to make an appeal to the company's leaders at its annual shareholder meeting near Nuremberg last May. Soon thereafter, ASICS and Mizuno - both Japanese brands - surrendered to reason and innovation, too, and said they'd stop sourcing kangaroo skins for their footwear. During the four-year lifespan of the campaign -- the length of a single U.S. presidential term -- we ran the table on the nine biggest athletic shoe brands and cut off the trade from companies that neatly wrapped wild-animal skins around the feet of a billion soccer players in 190 nations of the world. Those shoes looked clean and nifty, but those soles and uppers came with a heavy moral cost. Our campaign succeeded because we linked purchasing practices in the marketplace with field work documenting that commercial shooters left mobs of kangaroos dead and the joeys orphaned and bleating for their mums. We also saw incremental progress in our game-changing campaign to end animal testing in drug development. Federal regulators, building on our successful work to pass the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 at the close of 2022, outlined pathways to replace animal-based testing mandates with human-relevant science. New leaders at our federal agencies publicly rejected what was once considered immovable orthodoxy - the notion that drug safety requires animal tests. The government's animal testing mandate is beginning to give way to new strategies -- organs-on-chips, advanced computational modeling, and other predictive tools that are both more humane and scientifically relevant to the human condition. Industrial animal agriculture, particularly extreme confinement systems, represents not only a moral failure but a subordinating of our core values - with externalized costs to animals, public health, and the environment. By first working to give the animals more space, and then to defend cage-free production standards from factory-farming interests seeking to turn back the clock, we are working to see that a realignment in agricultural markets is not only reflective of core consumer values, but it's durable and here to stay. All animals, including those raised for food, deserve our mercy. Economic transformation toward a humane economy is not just possible; it's been proven successful throughout history. More than a century ago, conservationists and animal welfare advocates ended the millinery trade - the making of hats from a bundle of neatly arranged feathers -- which had been decimating bird populations. Some decades earlier, our nation replaced whale oil with petroleum, giving no more reason for the ships to leave the ports and ply the seas in search of these leviathans. We mechanized transportation, reducing the exploitation of horses even while retaining the reference to horsepower in the new cars and trains. Time and again, industries built on animal suffering have yielded to innovation, moral scrutiny, and economic evolution. Today, alternative proteins are reshaping food production. Sustainable materials are replacing wildlife skins. Biotechnology and artificial intelligence are redefining drug testing. Ecotourism is outcompeting trophy hunting. In each case, the Center's role is to accelerate the transition and ensure that humane innovation displaces animal exploitation with the speed of a locomotive, or better yet, a rocket ship. Past transformations may look smooth in the rearview mirror, but they were anything but that. Power never yields to progress without a fight. Resistance is often rooted less in evidence or reason than in habit and a fear of change. But overcoming stubborn resistance is our business model. We can have it all - robust commerce and human flourishing and a safe place for the million species that live among us in the thin zone of life on Earth. It's our job to spare animals the lash, the gun, the cage, and the trap. Cruelty and greed can, and must, yield to the combination of moral urgency and human ingenuity. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b The process for reviewing the Form 990 prior to filing includes circulation to all Board Members and the President. It is also carefully reviewed by accounting and financial personnel with experience in preparing this type of document. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c The Conflict of Interest Policy, which was approved by the Board of Directors, is circulated on an annual basis to Board Members and the President with a request for disclosure of any conflicts not known to the Board. Any conflicts that arise are addressed in accordance with the Policy by the disinterested Board Members. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 In determining compensation for top management, officers and other key personnel, the organization takes into account the experience of the incumbent and comparable compensation data for similar positions within the market area. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 Copies of Form 990 or any governing documents can be requested from the organization via the website of by phone for the period of disclosure as set forth in IRC Section 6104(d). Form 990, Part IX, line 11g Legislative consulting: Program service expenses 326,766. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 326,766. Programmatic consulting: Program service expenses 30,000. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 30,000. Website design: Program service expenses 37,050. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 1,950. Total expenses 39,000. Charitable solicitation: Program service expenses 0. Management and general expenses 4,809. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 4,809.