· Private foundation
Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of ADA M AND GERTRUDE GOBLE PEARL STRICKLAND FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POPULAR SPRING ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| ROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| WHISPERING RISE FARM ANIMAL SANCTUA | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LINDA KELLEY ANIMAL | $5,000 |
| SPCA OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF CALVERT COUNT | $5,000 |
| GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE | $5,000 |
| FREEDOM HILL HORSE RESCUE | $5,000 |
| BOWIE CITIZENS FOR LOCAL ANIMAL WEL | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN MARYLAND EQUINE MIRACLES | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 49% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF CALVERT COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +113%
- FHFREEDOM HILL HORSE RESCUE9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +116%
- GGGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- WTWOLF TRAP ANIMAL RESCUEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +49%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +28%- PAPATUXENT ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We are an animal rescue who takes dogs and cats from high kill shelters, off the streets and owner surrenders and get them vetted and adopted and we transport them out of high volume areas to the northeast.
Animal Welfare
Animal rescue and housing
We rescue cats and dogs suffered on the street and in endangered locations in both new york and china. the mission of our no-kill shelter is to provide stray cats with safe haven and veterinary care before placing them in forever loving…
Animal Welfare
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
Animal shelter and rescue
Our mission is to move adoptable dogs and cats primarily from heavily-burdened areas to loving homes. We work with trusted partners throughout the country and around the world and facilitate vet care, transport, and adoptions to help…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Best Friends Animal Society and the most unlike its peers is World Wildlife Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CALVERT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HILL HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY MD INC ↗
- Who funds POPLAR SPRING ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds BACK TO THE WILD INC ↗
- Who funds Saint Setons Orphaned Animals ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CAT SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RUDE RANCH ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds STMARY'S ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PATUXENT ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds A CAT'S FRIEND INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ada M and Gertrude Goble Pearl Strickland Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.