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Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$50k10%
FY202411$61k0%
FY202311$76k0%
FY202212$65k0%
FY202112$54k8%
FY202013$52k23%
FY201911$52k18%
FY201812$44k25%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$487kEnvironment$4k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Humane Society of Calvert County Inc$43,72592%
Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Society Ltd$43,72590%
Freedom Hill Horse Rescue$43,72598%
Whispering Rise Farm and Animal Sanctuary$43,7259n/a
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Anne Arundel County Md Inc$42,72590%
Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary$40,02581%
Back to the Wild Inc$38,72581%
Southern Maryland Equine Miracles Ltd$31,3256n/a
Saint Setons Orphaned Animals$26,32560%
Good Shepherd Cat Sanctuary Inc$26,32557%
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All grantees of Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Humane Society of Calvert County Inc$43,72592%
Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Society Ltd$43,72590%
Freedom Hill Horse Rescue$43,72598%
Whispering Rise Farm and Animal Sanctuary$43,7259n/a
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Anne Arundel County Md Inc$42,72590%
Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary$40,02581%
Back to the Wild Inc$38,72581%
Southern Maryland Equine Miracles Ltd$31,3256n/a
Saint Setons Orphaned Animals$26,32560%
Good Shepherd Cat Sanctuary Inc$26,32557%
Best Friends Animal Society$11,70030%
Rude Ranch Animal Rescue Inc$7,4002n/a
Stmary's Animal Welfare League Inc$5,55022%
Wolf Trap Animal Rescue$5,00011%
Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary Inc$5,00011%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$4,00010%
Patuxent Animal Welfare Society$3,7001n/a
Alley Cat Rescue Inc$3,70010%
A Cat's Friend Inc$1,85017%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHumane Society of Calvert County Inc: $43,725 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetGentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Society Ltd: $43,725 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom Hill Horse Rescue: $43,725 over 9y, 7.5% of budgetSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Anne Arundel County Md Inc: $42,725 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPoplar Spring Animal Sanctuary: $40,025 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBack to the Wild Inc: $38,725 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSaint Setons Orphaned Animals: $26,325 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGood Shepherd Cat Sanctuary Inc: $26,325 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $11,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStmary's Animal Welfare League Inc: $5,550 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWolf Trap Animal Rescue: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRockfish Wildlife Sanctuary Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Rescue Inc: $3,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Cat's Friend Inc: $1,850 over 1y, 7.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Give Back FoundationWI15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Give Back Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · America's Charities · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation

How much does Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation give?
Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (99%), Environment (1%).
Who are Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Humane Society of Calvert County Inc ($44k), Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Society Ltd ($44k), Freedom Hill Horse Rescue ($44k).
Does Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Give Back Foundation, The United Way of Central Maryland Inc, The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund.
Where is Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation based?
Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation is based in MD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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