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Carlee Charitable Trust at a glance

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Carlee Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$338k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$2.1MEnvironment$155kFood & Nutrition$65k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $280k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER$150,000
NANTUCKET ISLAND SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS$80,000
SCONSET TRUST$50,000
MARINE MAMMAL ALLIANCE NANTUCKET$35,000
CATTRAP$12,500
CATTRAP$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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 19% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONP: $8k → 6%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $250k → 7%MERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY: $25k → 10%ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $8k → 16%HUBCATS FERAL CAT FUND OF BOSTON: $77k → 9%NANTUCKET LAND COUNCIL: $8k → 6%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $175k → 7%MERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY: $15k → 10%HUBCATS FERAL CAT FUND OF BOSTON: $65k → 9%NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $8k → 6%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $150k → 7%THE SAMPSON FUND FOR VETERINARY CARE INC: $10k → 8%HUBCATS FERAL CAT FUND OF BOSTON: $65k → 9%NANTUCKET LAND COUNCIL: $8k → 6%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $150k → 7%HUBCATS FERAL CAT FUND OF BOSTON: $55k → 9%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $100k → 7%HUBCATS FERAL CAT FUND OF BOSTON: $55k → 9%SCONSET TRUST: $52k → 6%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $100k → 7%PAWSITIVE PANTRY: $55k → 9%SCONSET TRUST: $50k → 6%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $100k → 7%PAWSITIVE PANTRY: $10k → 9%SCONSET TRUST: $8k → 6%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER: $100k → 7%SCONSET TRUST: $8k → 6%NANTUCKET ISLAND SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS: $85k → 6%NANTUCKET ISLAND SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS: $80k → 6%NANTUCKET ISLAND SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS: $80k → 6%CATTRAP: $48k → 6%MARINE MAMMAL ALLIANCE NANTUCKET: $35k → 6%MARINE MAMMAL ALLIANCE NANTUCKET: $33k → 6%MARINE MAMMAL ALLIANCE NANTUCKET: $25k → 6%MARINE MAMMAL ALLIANCE NANTUCKET: $25k → 6%NANTUCKET ISLAND SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS: $20k → 6%CATTRAP: $13k → 6%CATTRAP: $13k → 6%NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS: $11k → 6%NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS: $10k → 6%CATTRAP: $10k → 6%CATTRAP: $10k → 6%CATTRAP: $10k → 6%CATTRAP: $10k → 6%CATTRAP: $10k → 6%CATTRAP: $10k → 6%CATTRAP: $8k → 6%CATTRAP: $8k → 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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 14 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +171% since the first grant, against +110% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$2.3M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+171%
+110%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue ×15
  • CI
    CATTRAP INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $186k · revenue +75% · 41% of their budget
  • 'T
    'SCONSET TRUST INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $122k · revenue +171%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SAMPSON FUND FOR VETERINARY CARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +110%
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
New England Animal Health Inc
Science & Tech
2
Animal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard Inc

The mission of the Animal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard is to provide shelter, health care, lover and support to all domestic animals until a permanent home is found for them.

Animals
3
Protectors of Animal Life Society

Pals no kill cat shelter protects and enhances the lives of cats in the heart of maine, providing low cost feline veterinary care, shelter, adoption services and public education.

Animals
4
North Kingstown-Exeter Animal Protection League Inc

To take in, care for, and adopt out unwanted or abandoned domestic animals.

Animals
5
Pawswatch

To humanely reduce and improve the lives of free-roaming cats in rhode island by advocating and practicing the proven trap, neuter, return, monitor (tnrm) protocol.

Animals
6
Cat Life Maine Inc

Cat Life Maine is a nonprofit animal welfare organization dedicated to reducing cat overpopulation and preventable suffering through trap-neuter-return (TNR), spay/neuter assistance, foster-based rescue, adoption, colony care, and…

Animals
7
Raskels Rescue
Animals
8
Nike Animal Rescue Foundation

Nike Animal Rescue Foundation (NARF) is dedicated to protecting the dogs and cats in our community. We provide medical care and locate quality, permanent homes for these animals. We strive to eliminate animal overpopulation through spay…

Animals
9
Maine Coast Animal Rescue

To provide animal protection and welfare organized to prevent cruelty to animals. mcra is a no-kill animal shelter with a mission to help as many homeless and unwanted animals as needed. mcra also rescues animals from high kill shelters…

Animals
10
Billerica Cat Care Coalition Inc

To trap/neuter/return programs to reduce cat overpopulation. The feeding of feral cat colonies and fostering of cats for transition into adoptive homes.

Animals
11
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
12
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc

Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues dogs and cats from southern state kill shelters and off the streets to save them being euthanized. We also help contract by the pet population by spaying and neutering and educating the public on…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pawsitive Pantry. 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

13 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. 13 of the 15 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $1,125,000 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INCCATTRAP INC: $185,715 · AnimalsCATTRAP INCMarine Mammal Alliance Nantucket: $118,125 · AnimalsMarine Mammal Alliance NantucketPAWSITIVE PANTRY: $65,000 · Animals+6 more: $113,750 · Animals+6 moreHUBCATS FERAL CAT FUND OF BOSTON: $317,400 · OtherHUBCATS FERAL CAT FUND OF BO…NANTUCKET ISLAND SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS: $265,125 · OtherNANTUCKET ISLAND SAFE HARBOR…'SCONSET TRUST INC: $122,125 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC: $18,300 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Environment
Animals$1,607,590Other$582,525Environment$155,425

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $1,125,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetCATTRAP INC: $185,715 over 8y, 41% of budget'SCONSET TRUST INC: $122,125 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetMarine Mammal Alliance Nantucket: $118,125 over 4y, 54% of budgetPAWSITIVE PANTRY: $65,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetMERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetNANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC: $26,250 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC: $18,300 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILD CAREINC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SAMPSON FUND FOR VETERINARY CARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% 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.

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.

Red Acre Farm Inc Dba…Shirley Shattuck Wind…Community Foundation …Cape Cod Foundation I…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Red Acre Farm Inc Dba Red Acre FoundationMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Red Acre Farm Inc Dba Red Acre Foundation · Shirley Shattuck Windsor Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • New England Wildlife Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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How do I get to Carlee Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Carlee Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 15 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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