Tennessee · Nonprofit
RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE
RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,102 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($78,247). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $137k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $140k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Rutherford County Cat Rescue does
Mission
Our mission is to decrease the number of homeless, strays, and owned cats' offspring by spay and neuter. We provide financial assistance to people on a fixed income and assistance for emergency vetting for their cats or injured strays.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Thanks to public donations, RCCR was able to spay, neuter, vaccinate, and vet approximately 426 cats in 2025 and provide vet care for numerous others. We were able to provide emergency care and surgeries for numerous strays and homeless cats that addressed injuries and other wounds. With the help of volunteers, we fostered 335 cats and kittens and found loving homes for 196 of them. Our volunteer foster program trapped many wild kittens, socialized them, and then found loving homes for them as well. We also TNR (Trap Neuter Return) many wild adult cats where homes or businesses continue to feed and provide shelter. TNR's numbered 180 in 2025. In addition, we have helped raise funds to pay the vet bills of sister rescues in the Middle TN area
$133,737 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $133,737.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $5k to $10k (+99%).
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 RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $33k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE’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
RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 83% · 2022 60% · 2023 62% — 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
100% of RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE'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 $50 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE has grown faster than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE
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 RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE: 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 RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE?
- RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,102 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($78,247). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $140,102 in grants to RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $78,247 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RUTHERFORD COUNTY CAT RESCUE 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 4 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