Tennessee · Nonprofit
EAST TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS
EAST TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($46,125). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $29k
What East Tennessee Alliance for Animals does
Mission
Rescue and rehome dogs
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025, east tn alliance for animals rescued and re-homed 250 animals. Each dollar received by the organization was used to assist other animals.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $20k to $41k (+109%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of EAST TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $8k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of EAST TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
EAST TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 78% · 2019 85% · 2020 83% · 2021 84% · 2022 80% · 2023 78% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
EAST TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $625 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
EAST TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like EAST TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EAST TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS?
- EAST TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($46,125). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAST TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $60,000 in grants to EAST TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $46,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST TENNESSEE ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing