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Virginia W Little 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.

$19k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,585
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,585
Organizations funded a year
12 to 12
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$474k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Virginia W Little Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$19k0%
FY202312$26k0%
FY202212$21k0%
FY202112$19k0%
FY202012$24kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$46kHuman Services$27kHealth$18kEducation$9kReligion$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Anti-Cruelty Society$10,85350%
Kids Above All Illinois$8,85250%
Vivisection Investigation League$8,85251%
Glenwood Academy$8,85250%
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations$8,85250%
Kay's Animal Shelter$8,85251%
Animal Welfare League$8,85250%
The Seeing Eye Inc$8,85250%
Presbyterian Homes$8,85250%
Kenilworth Union Church$8,8525n/a
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All grantees of Virginia W Little Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Anti-Cruelty Society$10,85350%
Kids Above All Illinois$8,85250%
Vivisection Investigation League$8,85251%
Glenwood Academy$8,85250%
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations$8,85250%
Kay's Animal Shelter$8,85251%
Animal Welfare League$8,85250%
The Seeing Eye Inc$8,85250%
Presbyterian Homes$8,85250%
Kenilworth Union Church$8,8525n/a
New England Anti-Vivisection Society$8,56350%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Virginia W Little Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Anti-Cruelty Society: $10,853 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKids Above All Illinois: $8,852 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVivisection Investigation League: $8,852 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGlenwood Academy: $8,852 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $8,852 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKay's Animal Shelter: $8,852 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAnimal Welfare League: $8,852 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Seeing Eye Inc: $8,852 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian Homes: $8,852 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew England Anti-Vivisection Society: $8,563 over 5y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

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About Virginia W Little Charitable Trust

How much does Virginia W Little Charitable Trust give?
Virginia W Little Charitable Trust reported 12 grants totaling $19,020 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Virginia W Little Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (43%), Human Services (25%), Health (16%).
Who are Virginia W Little Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Anti-Cruelty Society ($11k), Kids Above All Illinois ($9k), Vivisection Investigation League ($9k).
Does Virginia W Little Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Virginia W Little Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia W Little Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Virginia W Little Charitable Trust based?
Virginia W Little Charitable Trust is based in IL.

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 12 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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