· Private foundation
Edward Gorey Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON | $10,000 |
| THE XERCES SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| EDWARD GOREY HOUSE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% 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 +64% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 11 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 FY2024, 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
- XSXERCES SOCIETY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +125%
BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL7× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +179%
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +64%
Funded once
Trustees of Tufts Collegeone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +9%- TUTUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINEone grant, 2017 · $9k
- TUTUFTS UNIV SCHOOL OF VETINARY MEDICINEone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
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.
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
Since 1951, the animal welfare institute has been dedicated to alleviating animal suffering caused by people. we seek to improve the welfare of animals everywhere: in agriculture, in commerce, in our homes and communities, in research, and…
Care for abused, abandoned and illegally obtained large cats and bears.
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
Helping pets and the people that care for them.
The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.
Animal welfare organization providing rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption for wild, domestic, and farmed animals.
To provide humane treatment for unwanted animals and promote responsible pet ownership. received 2,930 animals, 1,585 adopted out, 5,187 neuter operations, 6,423 pet owners were educated, 8,579 pets treated at clinics.
Operate true "no-kill" animal sanctuary which provides rehabilitation to abused or abandoned domestic and factory farm animals on its 120 acre preserve.
Animal welfare society exists to serve as the safety net for lost and homeless pets and to provide access to affordable services and resources necessary for long term well-being, so pets and their families stay together and thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of Tufts College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 XERCES SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds CARRIE A SEAMAN ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILD CAREINC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY FOR ABANDONED ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds PET PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BIDEAWEE INC ↗
- Who funds PAW WARRIORS 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.
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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 Edward Gorey 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.
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
- National Marine Life Center Inc — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
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.
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