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Edward Gorey Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
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$333kHousing & Shelter$64kEducation$10kHealth$7kArts & Culture$3k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL$10,000
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON$10,000
THE XERCES SOCIETY$10,000
EDWARD GOREY HOUSE$5,000
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY: $4k → 7%EDWARD GOREY HOUSE: $13k → 8%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $9k → 11%PET PARTNERS: $5k → 11%ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $10k → 16%BIDAWEE: $4k → 17%WILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC: $8k → 7%PAW WARRIORS INC: $4k → 12%THE XERCES SOCIETY: $15k → 12%THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY: $10k → 14%COMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY: $3k → 7%EDWARD GOREY HOUSE: $12k → 8%TUFTS UNIV SCHOOL OF VETINARY MEDICINE: $8k → 11%PET PARTNERS: $4k → 11%ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $10k → 16%BIDEAWEE: $3k → 17%WILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION: $7k → 7%THE XERCES SOCIETY: $10k → 12%THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY: $9k → 14%EDWARD GOREY HOUSE: $10k → 8%TUFTS UNIV SCHOOL OF VETINARY MEDI: $7k → 11%ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $10k → 16%THE XERCES SOCIETY: $10k → 12%THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY: $8k → 14%EDWARD GOREY HOUSE: $8k → 8%ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $8k → 16%THE XERCES SOCIETY: $10k → 12%THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY: $7k → 14%EDWARD GOREY HOUSE: $8k → 8%ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $7k → 16%THE XERCES SOCIETY: $9k → 12%THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY: $6k → 14%EDWARD GOREY HOUSE: $7k → 8%ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $7k → 16%THE XERCES SOCIETY: $7k → 12%EDWARD GOREY HOUSE: $5k → 8%THE XERCES SOCIETY: $5k → 12%INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $5k → 8%INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $4k → 8%WILD CARE INC: $6k → 8%CARRIE A SEAMAN ANIMAL SHELTER: $6k → 8%WILD CARE INC: $5k → 8%CARRIE A SEAMAN ANIMAL SHELTER: $5k → 8%NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY FOR ABANDONED ANIMALS: $5k → 8%NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY FOR ABONDONED ANIMALS: $4k → 8%NATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER: $5k → 8%NATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER: $4k → 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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$381k · 15 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$381k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+9%

Still filing today

93%
20%

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
AnimalsArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • XS
    XERCES SOCIETY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +125%
  • BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +179%
  • ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON
    7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • TU
    TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
  • TU
    TUFTS UNIV SCHOOL OF VETINARY MEDICINE
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
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
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
2
All About Animals Rescue

All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.

Animals
3
Animal Welfare Institute

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…

Animals
4
International Exotic Animal Sanctuary

Care for abused, abandoned and illegally obtained large cats and bears.

Animals
5
Partners for Animal Welfare Society

Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.

Animals
6
Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire

Helping pets and the people that care for them.

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7
The Animal Haven Inc

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.

Animals
8
Animal Nation Inc

Animal welfare organization providing rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption for wild, domestic, and farmed animals.

Animals
9
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
10
Ardmore Animal Care Inc

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.

Animals
11
Society for Animal Rescue and Adoption

Operate true "no-kill" animal sanctuary which provides rehabilitation to abused or abandoned domestic and factory farm animals on its 120 acre preserve.

Animals
12
Animal Welfare Society Inc

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

XERCES SOCIETY INC: $66,640 · AnimalsXERCES SOCIETY INCANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $54,900 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTONTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $39,480 · AnimalsTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEEWILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC: $14,900 · AnimalsWILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INCINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $11,540 · AnimalsCARRIE A SEAMAN ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $10,160 · AnimalsWILD CAREINC: $10,160 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND SOCIETY FOR ABANDONED ANIMALS INC: $8,580 · AnimalsPET PARTNERS INC: $8,580 · Animals+3 more: $21,300 · Animals+3 moreEDWARD GOREY HOUSE: $63,880 · OtherEDWARD GOREY HOUSEBAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL: $61,980 · OtherBAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONALTUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $8,690 · OtherTUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MED…TUFTS UNIV SCHOOL OF VETINARY MEDICINE: $7,790 · OtherTUFTS UNIV SCHOOL OF VETINARY MEDI: $6,500 · Other+1 more: $3,000 · OtherTrustees of Tufts College: $10,000 · EducationNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC: $8,580 · Arts & Culture
Animals$246,240Other$151,840Education$10,000Arts & Culture$8,580

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC: $66,640 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL: $61,980 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $54,900 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $39,480 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC: $14,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $11,540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILD CAREINC: $10,160 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC: $8,580 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SOCIETY FOR ABANDONED ANIMALS INC: $8,580 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY: $7,100 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC: $7,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAW WARRIORS INC: $7,100 over 2y, 2.1% 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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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
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 Edward Gorey Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Edward Gorey 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 20 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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