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Alexander M Lewyt and Elisabeth Lewyt Wholly Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$5.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$37MPhilanthropy$1.6M
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $450k
  • $250k+6 grants · $5.2M
$35,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$90M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIU College of Veterinary Medicine$3,000,000
Greater Good Charities$500,000
Helen Woodward Animal Center$500,000
North Shore Animal League NY 11050$500,000
ASPCA$400,000
New Hampshire Human Society$250,000
Providence Animal Shelter$100,000
Little Shelter Animal Rescue$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Cove Animal Rescue$50,000
Paws Crossed Animal Rescue$50,000
Pets Alive Inc$50,000
Pets Lifeline$50,000
Inland Valley Humane Society$50,000
The Shelter Connection$40,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER: $575k → 10%PROVIDENCE ANIMAL SHELTER: $500k → 10%PETS LIFELINE: $500k → 9%HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL SHELTER: $600k → 11%HSVMARAVS: $2.6M → 13%INLAND VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $475k → 14%WESTCHESTER HUMANE SOCIETY: $1.0M → 9%ASPCA: $2.0M → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY: $2.1M → 14%BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE FOUNDATION: $450k → 11%SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER: $800k → 13%GREATER GOODS CHARITIES: $625k → 9%NEW HAMPSHIPE HUMANE SOCIETY: $500k → 9%NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER: $300k → 10%PROVIDENCE ANIMAL SHELTER: $350k → 10%Pets Lifeline: $250k → 9%Helen Woodward Animal Center: $500k → 11%HSVMARAVS: $1.1M → 13%INLAND VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $300k → 14%WESTCHESTER HUMANE SOCIETY: $1.0M → 9%ASPCA: $700k → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY: $1.9M → 14%NEW HAMPSHIPE HUMANE SOCIETY: $300k → 9%NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER: $250k → 10%Helen Woodward Animal Center: $450k → 11%INLAND VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $250k → 14%WESTCHESTER HUMANE SOCIETY: $150k → 9%ASPCA: $600k → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY: $1.1M → 14%NEW HAMPSHIPE HUMANE SOCIETY: $300k → 9%NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER: $250k → 10%HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL SHELTER: $275k → 11%WESTCHESTER HUMANE SOCIETY: $125k → 9%ASPCA: $400k → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY: $200k → 14%NEW HAMPSHIPE HUMANE SOCIETY: $250k → 9%New Hampshire Human Society: $250k → 9%New Hampshire Human Society: $230k → 9%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $1.0M → 6%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $500k → 6%North Shore Animal League NY 11050: $500k → 6%North Shore Animal League NY 11050: $500k → 6%VARIOUS 25000 AND UNDER: $225k → 6%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $300k → 6%VARIOUS 25000 AND UNDER: $220k → 6%VARIOUS 25000 AND UNDER: $185k → 6%LIU College of Veterinary Medicine: $3.0M → 6%LIU College of Veterinary Medicine: $2.5M → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38M · 42 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
8

Total granted

$38M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+31%

Still filing today

55%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
AnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $5.2M · revenue +46%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    6× · 2017–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +80%
  • NH
    NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +24% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

  • SF
    SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $800k · revenue -58%
  • HP
    HELPING PAW INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +733%
  • SH
    ST HUBERTS ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Happy Tails Dog Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
2
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
3
Raskels Rescue
Animals
4
Pet Adoption League of New York Inc
Animals
5
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
6
North Bay Animal Services
Animals
7
Humane Society of Genesee County

To provide services to homeless animals

Animals
8
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
9
One Love Dog Rescue Inc

Rescue abandoned dogs from out of nys

Animals
10
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

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.

Animals
11
Humane Society of Union County Inc

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.

Animals
12
The Humane Society of Dorchester County Inc

Baywater animal rescue is a no-kill shelter dedicated to improving the lives of people and pets

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Westchester Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIU College of Veterinary Medicine: $5,500,000 · OtherLIU College of Veterinary MedicineHSVMARAVS: $3,700,000 · OtherHSVMARAVSWESTCHESTER HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,325,000 · OtherWESTCHESTER HUMANE SOCIETYNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $1,410,000 · OtherNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INCPROVIDENCE ANIMAL SHELTER: $1,150,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE ANIMAL SHELTERINLAND VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,150,000 · OtherINLAND VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETYHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL SHELTER: $1,075,000 · OtherHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL SHELTERNorth Shore Animal League NY 11050: $1,000,000 · OtherVARIOUS 25000 AND UNDER: $751,000 · Other+14 more: $1,352,000 · Other+14 moreHumane World for Animals Inc: $5,201,093 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $4,850,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY …NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,855,000 · AnimalsNEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETYNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $1,800,000 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INCPets Lifeline Inc: $950,000 · AnimalsPets Lifeline IncHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $950,000 · AnimalsHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTERSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $800,000 · Animals+19 more: $1,326,000 · Animals+19 moreGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $1,625,000 · Philanthropy
Other$19,413,000Animals$17,732,093Philanthropy$1,625,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $5,201,093 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $4,850,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,855,000 over 7y, 50% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $1,800,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $1,625,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $1,410,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetPets Lifeline Inc: $950,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $950,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $800,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPET PEEVES INC: $300,000 over 3y, 91% of budgetPETS ALIVE INC: $275,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetCOVE ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION: $250,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetTHE SHELTER CONNECTION INC: $130,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetBAYPATH HUMANE SOCIETY OF HOPKINTON INC: $100,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetPAWS CROSSED ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $85,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGIVE A DOG A DREAM INC: $60,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHUDSON VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSuffolk County SPCA: $25,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetNASSAU COUNTY SPCA INC: $25,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetNORTH FORK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Ark Pope Memorial Animal Shelter: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRUFF HOUSE RESCUE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CENTER OF LONG ISLAND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMARYLLIS FARM EQUINE RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHPORT CAT RESCUE ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Pets Lifeline Inc ↗
  • Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
  • 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GIVE A DOG A DREAM INC ↗
  • Who funds WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Suffolk County SPCA ↗
  • Who funds NASSAU COUNTY SPCA INC ↗

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.

Humane World for Anim…The Duffield Family F…Pet Peeves IncThe Marilyn Lichtman …Leslie L Alexander Fo…Petsmart Charities IncAmerican Express Foun…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…
Humane World for Animals IncDC15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alexander M Lewyt and Elisabeth Lewyt Wholly Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alexander M Lewyt and Elisabeth Lewyt Wholly Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 50 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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