Tennessee · Nonprofit
ERWIN UNICOI AND UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD
ERWIN UNICOI AND UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD (Tennessee) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $598,070 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $598k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Erwin Unicoi and Unicoi County Animal Welfare Board does
Mission
To protect the public's health and safety from sick, injured and vicious animals and to protect the welfare of stray, abused and unwanted animals in the towns of erwin and unicoi and in the county of unicoi.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Overseeing the effective and cost efficient operation of the unicoi animal shelter to provide safe and humane shelter, to facilitate the placement of unwanted animals in suitable homes, and encourage the spaying and neutering of dogs and cats to reduce the number of unwanted animals in the county
$99,392 spent$-928 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $99,392.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $270k to $1.3M (+366%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 60% · 2019 58% · 2020 52% · 2021 51% · 2022 46% · 2023 34% · 2024 6% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of ERWIN UNICOI AND UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Christine Oetjen
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $58k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 ERWIN UNICOI AND UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD’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
ERWIN UNICOI AND UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ERWIN UNICOI AND UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 76% — 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
ERWIN UNICOI AND UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 7 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $253k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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
ERWIN UNICOI AND UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ERWIN UNICOI AND UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD
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.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ERWIN UNICOI AND UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD?
- ERWIN UNICOI AND UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD (Tennessee) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $598,070 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ERWIN UNICOI AND UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $598,070 in grants to ERWIN UNICOI AND UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ERWIN UNICOI AND UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD?
- THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ERWIN UNICOI AND UNICOI COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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