· Private foundation
Alexander McCausland Charitable
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $375k
- $250k+1 grant · $435k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROANOKE VALLEY SPCA | $435,060 |
| BLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC | $150,000 |
| LAST CHANCE FOR ANIMALS | $75,000 |
| PEOPLE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS PETA | $50,000 |
| IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS | $50,000 |
| ALLEY CAT RESCUE INC | $50,000 |
| UNIV OF VA MEDICAL SCHOOL FDN | $45,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE IN | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION | $25,000 |
| DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE | $20,000 |
| ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $19,940 |
| AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| FARM SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS | $10,000 |
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 21 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- TRTHE ROANOKE VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +36% · 35% of their budget
- LCLast Chance for Animals8× · 2018–2025 · $304k · revenue +8%
- AAAssisi Animal Clinics Of Virginia Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $295k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- BRBLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OFone grant, 2024 · $100k
- BRBLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN ZOOone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +12%
- HWHumane World for Animals Incone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
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.
Rescue unwanted dogs and cats from high kill shelters and other dire circumstances. Provide veterinary care shelter and love until the pet is placed into an appropriate new home.
Animal Welfare
Animal Rescue
The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Defenders of Animal Rights Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 54 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 THE ROANOKE VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Last Chance for Animals ↗
- Who funds Assisi Animal Clinics Of Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION INC ↗
- Who funds SMILES FOREVER ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUA ↗
- Who funds Roanoke Valley Horse Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds Bedford Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds BARN CAT BUDDIES ↗
- Who funds HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER ↗
- Who funds IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds New Freedom Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA WILDLIFE CENTER OF ROANOKE INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY 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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Verizon Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petco Love · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving 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 Alexander McCausland Charitable 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.