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SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC

SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC (Texas) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,909 to it, the largest being EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($165,892). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$534k
Net assets
$4.1M
15/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Spca of East Texas Inc does

Mission

1.serving the city of tyler, smith county, and surrounding areas in the rescue and adoption of homeless animals. 2. Promoting and educating our community regarding the serious need for reduction of local pet overpopulation and lowering euthanasia. 3. Operating a hotline for the reporting of cruelty to animals to facilitate investigation and prosecution of cruelty to animals. 4. Operating a local affordable spay/neuter clinic to serve the community. 5. Operating an adoption center open 6 days a week in the heart of tyler to rehome rescued pets. 6. Operating a foster home program for the rehabilitation and rehoming of all rescued animals. 7. Operating a community outreach program in local schools promoting humane animal care and responsible pet ownership to hundreds of elementary school children.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The spca of east texas received and documented animal welfare and cruelty cases through the animal cruelty hotline. Currently, we must rely on local law enforcement to investigate our cases by referral. These cases represent only calls that resulted in an animal welfare case being opened and do not include hotline calls that were immediately referred to veterinarians, low-cost clinics, online resources, and other rescues, shelters or agencies for assistance. In 2024, the spca of east texas rescued 754 dogs/cats, and rehomed 752 of them. The adoption center is open tuesday thru saturday from 9:00am to 5:00pm.

    $1,005,110 spent$100,302 earned by the program
    58% of program spending
  2. The spca of east texas operates a permanent, weekly low cost spay/neuter clinic to serve the community in the prevention of unwanted litters and the promotion of preventative wellness care for pets. In 2024, the snippet clinic served 7,022 animals including 2,961 spay/neuter surgeries for animals in our community.

    $710,090 spent$762,783 earned by the program
    41% of program spending
  3. The spca of east texas maintains an 8-acre community park for use by families and their pets. The park is open daily from dawn until dusk, and allows pet owners and their pets the opportunity to benefit from a safe, outdoor setting. The park offers both a small, and a large dog area, pet friendly water fountains, and bench seating for owners.

    $12,318 spent
    1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,727,518.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 55 ($1.8M) Expenses 119 ($1.6M) Net assets 106 ($3.2M)2019 Revenue 39 ($1.2M) Expenses 110 ($1.4M) Net assets 99 ($3.0M)2020 Revenue 34 ($1.1M) Expenses 80 ($1.1M) Net assets 99 ($3.0M)2021 Revenue 63 ($2.0M) Expenses 115 ($1.5M) Net assets 116 ($3.5M)2022 Revenue 57 ($1.8M) Expenses 125 ($1.6M) Net assets 121 ($3.7M)2023 Revenue 79 ($2.5M) Expenses 138 ($1.8M) Net assets 147 ($4.4M)2024 Revenue 46 ($1.5M) Expenses 136 ($1.8M) Net assets 136 ($4.1M)
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Revenue (46)Expenses (136)Net assets (136)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.4M to $7.7M (+42%).

$3.3M
$3.5M
$3.2M
$3.1M
$5.3M
$5.4M
$7.7M
$7.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

52% of SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,657 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.9M
’17
$180k
’18
−$219k
’19
$14k
’20
$496k
’21
$170k
’22
$690k
’23
−$318k
’24
1.6
months of
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.

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Listed2224242219191410
Joined·+7+0+15+3+3+8+1
No longer listed·501763135
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $18k → $206k.

8 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 29 funders by total. 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

SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

45% 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 SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC.

31%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 24% · 2019 62% · 2020 77% · 2021 49% · 2022 39% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.

“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

36% of SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

96% of SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

VA
KS
TN
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $236k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC?
SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC (Texas) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,909 to it, the largest being EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($165,892). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $533,909 in grants to SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC?
EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $165,892 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 29 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