Washington · Nonprofit
Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs
Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs (Washington) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,743,937 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($913,124). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs does
Mission
Animal rescue and placement, animal welfare education, animal spaying and neutering.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
PET ADOPTION. Each year, MEOW rescues and places for adoption between 750 and 1000 animals. While in our care, animals receive any necessary veterinary care, as well as vaccines, deworming, microchipping, and spay/neuter surgery. Dedicated volunteers donate thousands of hours, either at the shelter (working as Adoption Counselors, Kennel Attendants, Buddies, and several other vital positions) or in their homes providing foster care for animals who are too young to be adopted, are recovering from an illness or injury, or need additional socialization. MEOW supports animals who may have little or no chance to be adopted (due to old age and/or medical conditions) with excellent care in Long-Term Foster homes.
$918,226 spent$83,508 earned by the program93% of program spendingEDUCATION. MEOW provides animal welfare and responsible pet ownership information to prospective and new owners as well as to schools and community groups through our outreach events, quarterly newsletter, website, shelter tours, and volunteer contacts.
$7,079 spent1% of program spendingSPAYING AND NEUTERING. All animals are altered prior to adoption. Additionally, we have two programs which provide spay/neuter services to the public. Our no-cost Public Voucher Program provides vouchers that can be redeemed at our partner clinics for spay/neuter surgery at no cost to the owner. Our Independent Rescuer Support provides affiliated individuals who are doing TNR (trap, neuter, return) with spay/neuter vouchers as well as funding for vaccinations and parasite treatment for owned pets which they encounter. We seek donations to fund the vouchers, but we feel that spay/neuter is such a vital part of our mission that we supplement these programs with funds from our general account as needed.
$60,123 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $985,428.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.6M to $3.5M (+34%).
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.
78% of Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs’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. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Bonne Vevea
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $23k → $332k.
12 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs’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
Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 63% · 2019 26% · 2020 75% · 2021 55% · 2022 51% · 2023 49% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
87% of Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $230k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs: 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 Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs?
- Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs (Washington) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,743,937 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($913,124). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,743,937 in grants to Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $913,124 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 27 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing