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APPALACHIAN BLACK BEAR REHABILITATION AND RELEASE CENTER

EIN 58-1919032 TOWNSEND, TN

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Revenue 2025
$1,229,424
Expenses 2025
$806,841

Program services were 65.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D340
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 364

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

APPALACHIAN BEAR RESCUE CARES FOR ORPHANED AND INJURED BLACK BEAR CUBS FOR RETURN TO THEIR NATURAL, WILD HABITAT; INCREASES PUBLIC AWARENESS ABOUT COEXISTING WITH BLACK BEARS; AND STUDIES ALL ASPECTS OF RETURNING CUBS TO THE WILD.

  • REHABILITATION - CARE FOR ORPHANED AND INJURED BLACK BEAR CUBS TO RETURNTO THEIR NATURAL, WILD HABITAT AND TO STUDY THEIR BEHAVIOR UPON RELEASE.

    Expenses $279,724

  • AWARENESS - INCREASE PUBLIC AWARENESS ABOUT COEXISTING WITH BEARS

    Expenses $190,312

  • RESEARCH - PROVIDES TUITION FUNDING AND ASSOCIATED COSTS (RESEARCH MATERIALS) FOR ABR EMPLOYEES TO COMPLETE GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS WHILE PERFORMING RESEARCH PROJECTS THAT HELP BROADEN THE BODY OF LITERATURE RELATED TO RETURNING BEARS TO THE WILD IN THE REGIONS WE SERVE. OTHER PROGRAM EXPENSES MAY COVER TESTING AND LAB FEES AT UNIVERSITY, VETERINARY HOSPITALS, AND STATE/FEDERAL WILDLIFE AGENCIES.

    Expenses $60,390

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Greg Grieco

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $75,085
    From this org
    $75,085
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Tom Faulkner

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jay Clark

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SJ Geis

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tina Rolen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Phil Colclough

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Julie Sheldon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bob Ramsey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mike Smith

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,229,424
    Expenses
    $806,841
    Contributions
    $1,013,047
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $835,332
    Expenses
    $753,003
    Contributions
    $733,161
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $803,918
    Expenses
    $777,978
    Contributions
    $740,169
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $715,833
    Expenses
    $696,037
    Assets (EOY)
    $969,798

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $671,652
    Expenses
    $631,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $950,794

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $602,878
    Expenses
    $517,541
    Assets (EOY)
    $916,285

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $551,473
    Expenses
    $521,309
    Assets (EOY)
    $822,796

  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $185,384
    Expenses
    $127,268
    Assets (EOY)
    $147,003

  • 2010 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $103,047
    Expenses
    $96,398
    Assets (EOY)
    $90,904

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.