· Private foundation
Patricia M Powers 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELPING UP MISSION | $5,000 |
| THE PET GOOD SAMARITAN FUND | $5,000 |
| TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE | $5,000 |
| CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE | $3,000 |
| MY NEIGHBOR'S FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| JAMES P HARRINGTON ORGANIZATION | $3,000 |
| ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| BLUE RIBBON PROJECT | $2,500 |
| GIVING HEARTS DAY | $2,500 |
| SPARROW MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT | $2,500 |
| AUSTIN CLUBHOUSE | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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 +14% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- TMTURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE6× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +69%
- HUHELPING UP MISSION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +31%
- ASATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- GFGRACE FELLOWSHIP CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $4k
- PHPAGOSA HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $2k
- VVVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -21%
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.
Foster-based animal rescue that rescues homeless and abandoned animals, providing them with veterinary care including specialized care, heartworm treatment, surgery, severe illness treatment & hospitalization, then placing them for…
Advocates 4 Animals A4A Pet Pantry is a 100% volunteer 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to keeping animals with their families during financial hardship by providing pet food and spay-neuter assistance. We also operate an adoption program caring…
Pippys Pals Rescue is dedicated to saving the lives of dogs facing euthanasia in Houston. Our mission is to provide a second chance to these beloved companions by rescuing them from shelters, providing them with necessary medical care, and…
To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miracle Hill Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rugby's Rescue House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 46 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 TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SPARROW MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Pet Good Samaritan Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds MY NEIGHBORS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Blue Ribbon Project ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds RUGBY'S RESCUE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BACKPACKS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds James P Harrington Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds Mary Ann Morris Animal Society ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ROLLING WAVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Austin Clubhouse Inc ↗
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds Flying Fur Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds ANCHAL INC ↗
- Who funds Seeds of Learning ↗
- Who funds KATELLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES 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.
Open a dossier: The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Patricia M Powers 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.
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% 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.