· Private foundation
Alexander M Lewyt and Elisabeth Lewyt Wholly Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $450k
- $250k+6 grants · $5.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIU College of Veterinary Medicine | $3,000,000 |
| North Shore Animal League NY 11050 | $500,000 |
| Helen Woodward Animal Center | $500,000 |
| Greater Good Charities | $500,000 |
| ASPCA | $400,000 |
| New Hampshire Human Society | $250,000 |
| Providence Animal Shelter | $100,000 |
| Cove Animal Rescue | $50,000 |
| Pets Lifeline | $50,000 |
| Paws Crossed Animal Rescue | $50,000 |
| Little Shelter Animal Rescue | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Pets Alive Inc | $50,000 |
| Inland Valley Humane Society | $50,000 |
| The Shelter Connection | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
42 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HWHumane World for Animals Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $5.2M · revenue +46%
- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS6× · 2017–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +80%
- NHNEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY7× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +24% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- SFSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $800k · revenue -44%
- HPHELPING PAW INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +733%
- HVHUDSON VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +24%
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.
The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…
Animal Rescue
To provide services to homeless animals
To help rescue unwanted pets
Rescue abandoned dogs from out of nys
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.
The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.
Baywater animal rescue is a no-kill shelter dedicated to improving the lives of people and pets
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Westchester Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 50 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 World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GOOD CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Pets Lifeline Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PET PEEVES INC ↗
- Who funds PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds COVE ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds BAYPATH HUMANE SOCIETY OF HOPKINTON INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CROSSED ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING PAW INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE A DOG A DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Suffolk County SPCA ↗
- Who funds NASSAU COUNTY SPCA 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: Humane World for Animals Inc · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Pet Peeves Inc · The Marilyn Lichtman Foundation · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · American Express Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Alexander M Lewyt and Elisabeth Lewyt Wholly Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — 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.