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Edgar O Dixon Charitable Trust

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$146k
Granted FY2020
14
Grants FY2020
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k9 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $106k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$25,000
FISTULAR FOUNDATION$25,000
THE CARTER CENTER$25,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$20,000
VANCE GRANVILLE COMM COLLEGE$11,200
ACCORD FOOD PANTRY$5,000
GLAD$5,000
KEY WEST WILDLIFE CTR$5,000
GIRLS INC OF LYNN$5,000
A LIGHT TO ZIMBABWE$5,000
LAKES ENVIROMENTAL ASSOC$5,000
FLORIDA KEYS SPCA$5,000
THE KITTY CONNECTION$2,500
MILTON ANIMAL LEAGUE$2,500
02The need
02

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MILTON ANIMAL LEAGUE: $3k → 7%THE KITTY CONNECTION: $3k → 8%GIRLS INC OF LYNN: $5k → 10%GLAD: $5k → 16%FISTULAR FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%DOCTORS WO BORDERS: $25k → 17%FLORIDA KEYS SPCA: $5k → 13%VANCE GRANVILLE COMM COLLEGE: $11k → 20%THE CARTER CENTER: $25k → 14%LAKES ENVIROMENTAL ASSOC: $5k → 7%ACCORD FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

1
Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center Inc

Rescue, rehabilitate, and release native and migratory wild birds harmed or displaced; provide or locate a humane shelter for those birds that cannot be released; and educate the public.

Animals
2
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
3
Liberty Wildlife Inc

Liberty Wildlife nurtures the nature of Arizona by providing quality wildlife rehabilitation, environmental education and conservation consultation services for the community.

4
Animal Rescue League of Berks County Inc

We protect animals, provide a safe haven, and promote innovative programs and services to help both people and animals in need throughout berks county.

Animals
5
Fearless Kitty Rescue

As a no-kill cat rescue, serving our community of Fountain Hills, AZ and surrounding areas, we are dedicated to rescuing cats and kittens left homeless for whatever reason and placing them in a loving, responsible, permanent home.

Animals
6
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
7
Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland

The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.

Animals
8
Humane Animal Partners

Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…

Animals
9
Fishing Cat Conservation Alliance Inc

The Fishing Cat Conservation Alliance supports the conservation of fishing cats and their natural habitats within their geographical range in South and South East Asia by working with local partners around the world to identify and…

Animals
10
Turtle Conservancy

The turtle conservancy is dedicated to protecting threatened turtles and tortoises and their habitats worldwide, and to promoting their appreciation by people.

Animals
11
Critters Without Litters Inc

Critters Without Litters provides high-volume, high-quality, subsidized companion animal sterilization. We seek to end the preventable euthanasia of healthy, adoptable pets in Kern County through strong alliances with the community, local…

Animals
12
Feral Cat SpayNeuter Project

Our mission is to save the lives of homeless cats by providing access to high volume spay/neuter surgery in a safe and humane environment, collaborating with others and mentoring like-minded organizations to increase spay/neuter in their…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn and the most unlike its peers is Kitty Connection Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVANCE GRANVILLE COMM COLLEGE — $11,200 · OtherVANCE GRANVILLE COMM COLLEGEACCORD FOOD PANTRY — $5,000 · OtherACCORD FOOD PANTRYA LIGHT TO ZIMBABWE — $5,000 · OtherA LIGHT TO ZIMBABWETHE CARTER CENTER INC — $25,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INCRAINFOREST TRUST — $20,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUSTThe Fistula Foundation — $25,000 · HealthThe Fistula Foundat…FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $5,000 · AnimalsFLORIDA KEY…KEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $5,000 · AnimalsKEY WEST WI…Milton Animal League Inc — $2,500 · AnimalsMilton Anim…Kitty Connection Inc — $2,500 · AnimalsKitty Conne…GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC — $5,000 · Civil RightsGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Environment
Other$46,200International$45,000Health$25,000Animals$15,000Civil Rights$5,000Youth Development$5,000Environment$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMilton Animal League Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKitty Connection Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Edgar O Dixon 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 28%
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn28% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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 · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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