· Private foundation
Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k12 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $45,000 |
| ANIMAL FRIENDS | $35,800 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE | $25,000 |
| WESTMORELAND COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $23,800 |
| ANIMAL CARE AND WELFARE | $9,200 |
| BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $9,000 |
| WHITE OAK ANIMAL SAFE HAVEN | $8,800 |
| PET CONNECTION | $4,500 |
| OPERATION SPAY NEUTER | $4,400 |
| PROMISES FOR PETS | $3,800 |
| BRIDGE TO HOME RESCUE | $3,200 |
| KISKI VALLEY CAT KITTEN RESCUE | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| CRITTER CARE | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
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%. 100% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- AFAnimal Friends Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +58%
- BCBUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY5× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +179%
- HAHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE4× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- ARAnimal Rescue Leagueone grant, 2017 · $30k
- WCWestmoreland County Humane Socone grant, 2017 · $15k
- CCCRITTER CARE ADOPTION INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Animal Rescue
homeless animal shelter
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
Provide animal rescue with humane education and outreach.
The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
Animal welfare
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
Animal Welfare
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Butler County Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Promises for Pets Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 23 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 Animal Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Humane Society Of Westmoreland County ↗
- Who funds BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Animal Care and Welfare Inc ↗
- Who funds White Oak Animal Safe Haven No Kill Shelter ↗
- Who funds PET CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Spay Neuter Inc ↗
- Who funds Promises for Pets Inc ↗
- Who funds KISKI VALLEY CAT & KITTEN RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Angel Ridge Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds WITH A GOLDEN SPIRIT 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 Pittsburgh Foundation · Edward B Dunlap Jr Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.