Tennessee · Nonprofit
ELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL
ELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,350 to it, the largest being THE SHARED EARTH FOUNDATION ($140,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $124k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $237k
- Net assets
- $154k
What Elephant Care International does
Mission
To foster and deliver healthcare for elephants
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our website is a global resource for elephant healthcare and welfare. We provide extensive professional resources including healthcare protocols lectures a formulary and an extensive bibliography. This year we added a major new resource; an online guide for hand-raising orphan Asian elephants. Further sharing included participation in the Asian Elephant Specia;ists Group Meeting in Vietnam.
$2,034 spent6% of program spendingLaos WildMED Project -WildMED is a mobile emergency rapid response wildlife veterinary unit that can deploy to any location in Laos. Two mobile wildlife ambulances veterinarians vet techs and biologists are able to deliver immediate medical care to elephants and other wildlife in the field. This rapid response capability is crucial to ensuring that sick and injured wildlife receive timely and appropriate treatment.
$9,275 spent25% of program spendingLaos Museum Project This project supports the Elephant Conservation Center in Laos to further develop a plan for an Elephant Museum in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Luang Prabang. The Museum will be open to the public.
$4,795 spent13% of program spendingThe Laos Scale Project provided a scale for the Elephant Conservation Center in Laos and provided the means for us to do a project comparing scale weights with formulas to estimate weight. Accurate methods to estimate elephant weights are needed to monitor health and calculate drug dosages and are needed by facilities that lack access to a scale capable of weighing an elephant.
$20,403 spent55% of program spendingIndia Health Camp Project In this project ECI partnered with Wildlife SOS - India to conduct health exams of government-owned elephants at Kazaranga National Park and Manas National Park and private-owned elephants in Assam. Elephants received physical exams worming medications and foot work and treatment of any current medical problems.
$263 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,770.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $69k to $154k (+125%).
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 ELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL’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. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $37k → $45k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL’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
ELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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: 2018 96% · 2019 50% · 2020 74% · 2021 98% · 2022 95% · 2023 77% — 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
ELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $892 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
ELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL
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 ELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL: 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 ELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL?
- ELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,350 to it, the largest being THE SHARED EARTH FOUNDATION ($140,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $237,350 in grants to ELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL?
- THE SHARED EARTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELEPHANT CARE INTERNATIONAL 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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