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Alexander McCausland Charitable at a glance

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Alexander McCausland Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$435k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$7.1MHealth$433kEducation$77kHuman Services$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $375k
  • $250k+1 grant · $435k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND$20,000
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE$20,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$19,940
AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION$15,000
UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS$10,000
FARM SANCTUARY$10,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS: $50k → 8%LAST CHANCE FOR ANIMALS: $89k → 14%BEDFORD HUMANE SOCIETY: $55k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED: $61k → 14%FRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $50k → 9%BLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $150k → 8%UNIV OF VA MEDICAL SCHOOL FDN: $45k → 8%PEOPLE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS PETA: $50k → 19%ROANOKE VALLEY SPCA: $435k → 20%ALLEY CAT RESCUE INC: $50k → 11%FRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $45k → 14%LAST CHANCE FOR ANIMALS: $75k → 14%BEDFORD HUMANE SOCIETY: $50k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED: $50k → 14%BLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $140k → 8%UNIV OF VA MEDICAL SCHOOL FDN: $45k → 8%ROANOKE VALLEY SPCA: $250k → 20%ALLEY CAT RESCUE INC: $50k → 11%BEDFORD HUMANE SOCIETY: $45k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED: $50k → 14%BLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $105k → 8%UNIV OF VA MEDICAL SCHOOL FDN: $45k → 8%ROANOKE VALLEY SPCA: $200k → 20%BEDFORD HUMANE SOCIETY: $45k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED: $50k → 14%BLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF: $100k → 8%ROANOKE VALLEY SPCA: $150k → 20%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED: $50k → 14%LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION: $60k → 7%BLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $75k → 8%ROANOKE VALLEY SPCA: $150k → 20%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED: $50k → 14%LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION: $50k → 7%MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO INC: $50k → 8%ROANOKE VALLEY SPCA: $150k → 20%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $50k → 14%ASSISI ANIMAL CLINICS OF VIRGINIA INC: $50k → 8%ROANOKE VALLEY SPCA: $150k → 20%ASSISI ANIMAL CLINICS OF VIRGINIA INC: $50k → 8%ROANOKE VALLEY SPCA: $143k → 20%ROANOKE VALLEY SPCA: $140k → 20%ASSISI ANIMAL CLINICS OF VIRGINIA INC: $50k → 20%SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA WILDLIFE: $55k → 8%ASSISI ANIMAL CLINICS OF VIRGINIA INC: $50k → 20%SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA WILDLIFE: $50k → 8%ANGELS OF ASSISI: $50k → 20%SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA WILDLIFE: $50k → 8%SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA WILDLIFE: $50k → 8%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

NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.4M · 36 repeat orgs$525k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
16

Total granted

$7.4M
$475k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+12%

Still filing today

69%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TR
    THE ROANOKE VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +36% · 35% of their budget
  • LC
    Last Chance for Animals
    8× · 2018–2025 · $304k · revenue +8%
  • AA
    Assisi Animal Clinics Of Virginia Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $295k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +12%
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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Humane World for Animals International

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…

Animals
3
Bristow Barnyard Farm and Domestic Animal Rescue
Animals
4
The Animal Rescue League
Animals
5
Fur Animal Rescue

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.

Animals
6
Animals First Rescue of the Carolinas Inc

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.

Animals
7
Bella View Farm Animal Sanctuary Inc
Animals
8
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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9
Realtors to the Rescue

Animal Rescue

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10
Spring Farm Sanctuary
Animals
11
Beaverhead Animal Shelter

The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.

Animals
12
Raskels Rescue
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Defenders of Animal Rights Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 54 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ROANOKE VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,768,060 · AnimalsTHE ROANOKE VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSLast Chance for Animals: $303,900 · AnimalsLast Chance for AnimalsAssisi Animal Clinics Of Virginia Inc: $295,000 · AnimalsAssisi Animal Clinics Of Virginia IncAlley Cat Rescue Inc: $250,000 · AnimalsFRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $250,000 · AnimalsLEAGUE FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION INC: $245,000 · AnimalsSMILES FOREVER ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUA: $225,000 · AnimalsRoanoke Valley Horse Rescue Inc: $222,500 · Animals+23 more: $1,573,582 · Animals+23 moreBLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $470,000 · OtherBLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INCIndividual grant recipient: $350,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIV OF VA MEDICAL SCHOOL FDN: $347,579 · OtherUNIV OF VA MEDICAL SCHOOL FDNIndividual grant recipient: $330,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED: $311,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITEDBEDFORD HUMANE SOCIETY: $235,000 · OtherBEDFORD HUMANE SOCIETYBROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER: $145,000 · OtherBLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF: $100,000 · Other+13 more: $532,043 · Other+13 moreVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $36,750 · EducationCLOVER CAT RESCUE INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Animals$5,133,042Other$2,820,622Education$36,750Food & Nutrition$10,000

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 budgetTHE ROANOKE VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,768,060 over 9y, 35% of budgetLast Chance for Animals: $303,900 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetAssisi Animal Clinics Of Virginia Inc: $295,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetAlley Cat Rescue Inc: $250,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $250,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetLEAGUE FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION INC: $245,000 over 7y, 32% of budgetSMILES FOREVER ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUA: $225,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetRoanoke Valley Horse Rescue Inc: $222,500 over 8y, 14% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $170,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $153,055 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $135,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBedford Humane Society Inc: $130,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $95,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ANIMALS INC: $95,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA: $85,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetBARN CAT BUDDIES: $85,000 over 8y, 63% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $80,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS: $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $55,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNew Freedom Farm Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST VIRGINIA WILDLIFE CENTER OF ROANOKE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $36,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL HUMANE EDUCATION SOCIETY: $35,527 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDEFENDERS OF ANIMAL RIGHTS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOVER CAT RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 16% 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 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 FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds BARN CAT BUDDIES ↗
  • Who funds UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • 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 Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO ↗
  • Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA WILDLIFE CENTER OF ROANOKE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY 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.

Community Foundation …Ge Aerospace Foundati…Celanese FoundationPetsmart Charities IncRobertson Family Foun…PC Fund for Animals C…Verizon FoundationShell USA Company Fou…The American Society …Petco LoveThe Duffield Family F…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Community Foundation Serving Western VirginiaVA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 McCausland Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alexander McCausland Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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 54 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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