· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY | $1,585 |
| CHILDREN HOME & AID | $1,585 |
| KENILWORTH UNION CHURCH | $1,585 |
| THE SEEING EYE INC | $1,585 |
| GLENWOOD ACADEMY | $1,585 |
| KAY'S ANIMAL SHELTER | $1,585 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE | $1,585 |
| VIVISECTION INVESTIGATION LEAGUE | $1,585 |
| KIDS ABOVE ALL ILLINOIS | $1,585 |
| PRESBYTERIAN HOMES | $1,585 |
| NEW ENGLAND ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY | $1,585 |
| NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM | $1,585 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TAThe Anti-Cruelty Society5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +30%
- KAKids Above All Illinois5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +68%
- VIVIVISECTION INVESTIGATION LEAGUE5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +17%
Funded once
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.
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.
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.
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.
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
The animal rescue league of boston's vision is to confront animal cruelty and neglect at its root causes. through programs, services, and facilities focused on accessible animal care, public advocacy, and sustained anti-cruelty efforts...…
We have a no-kill mission to save the lives of homeless cats and dogs abandoned and/or placed in kill shelters, while also providing life-saving programs and services to keep pets and their people together. through outreach, education and…
To provide, promote, and advance humane protection, care and treatment of animals thru education of the public and the operation of an animal shelter which cares for, spays and neuters, and places homeless pets in permanent homes.
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
Provide wellness and spay/neuter services at reduced cost for people in need.
To provide a refuge for unwanted and/or abandoned dogs and cats, provide pet adoption, pet trainng, neutering and medical treatment, and rehabilitation, with no euthanization unless in the case of incurable illness.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds Kids Above All Illinois ↗
- Who funds VIVISECTION INVESTIGATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
- Who funds KAY'S ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Animal Welfare League ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Virginia W Little Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia W Little Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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