· Private foundation
Alice a Paxton Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALTIMORE HUMANE SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| IRVINE NATURE CENTER | $25,000 |
| FREDERICK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $25,000 |
| ALLEY CAT RESCUE INC | $25,000 |
| HART FOR ANIMALS INC | $20,000 |
| MidAtlantic Horse Rescue | $15,500 |
| CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE | $15,000 |
| EAST COAST EXOTIC ANIMAL RESCUE INC | $12,500 |
| RED CREEK WILDLIFE CENTER | $12,000 |
| MARYLAND SPCA | $5,000 |
| POPLAR SPRINGS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 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 FY2025, 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
- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $126k · revenue +78%
- INIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +65%
- HFHART FOR ANIMALS INC5× · 2020–2025 · $84k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATEDone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -5%
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.
Animal rescue dedicated to saving the lives of all dogs and cats. staffed only by volunteers and rely on contributions and adoption fees all animals are fostered in homes and allows us to find suitable h
Last chance is a non-profit corporation that rescues and cares for animals and places them in good homes in maryland, washington, dc, and northen virginia. their animal clinic provides high quality, high volume, low cost spay and neuter…
Animal shelter and rescue
The humane society is working to make a difference in the lives of animals and the people who love and care for them, and is dedicated to relieving the pain and suffering of animals through education and direct intervention.
The Humane Society of Charles County has the dual mission of promoting the humane treatment of animals and of fostering a respect for all life, both animal and human.
The spca aids mistreated, unwanted or injured animals of every kind & seeks to educate the public in the humane treatment of all animals. pet adoptions are offered as a service to the community.
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
Animal Rescue
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Washington County Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Red Creek Wildlife Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 14 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 CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST COAST EXOTIC ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WONDERS ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HART FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds RED CREEK WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds POPLAR SPRING ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INCORPORATED ↗
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: America's Charities · Mary Jean and Oliver Travers Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Alice a Paxton 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.