South Carolina · Private foundation
Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $170k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $43,800
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $170k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $182k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $199k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $182k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $191k | 27% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $180k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Friends Inc | $263,600 | 6 | 1% |
| Butler County Humane Society | $204,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Humane Animal Rescue | $145,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Humane Society Of Westmoreland County | $112,600 | 5 | 6% |
| Beaver County Humane Society | $82,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Animal Care and Welfare Inc | $68,400 | 6 | 18% |
| White Oak Animal Safe Haven No Kill Shelter | $40,800 | 6 | 5% |
| Pet Connection Inc | $29,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Operation Spay Neuter Inc | $25,800 | 6 | 9% |
| Promises for Pets Inc | $18,100 | 6 | 99% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Friends Inc | $263,600 | 6 | 1% |
| Butler County Humane Society | $204,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Humane Animal Rescue | $145,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Humane Society Of Westmoreland County | $112,600 | 5 | 6% |
| Beaver County Humane Society | $82,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Animal Care and Welfare Inc | $68,400 | 6 | 18% |
| White Oak Animal Safe Haven No Kill Shelter | $40,800 | 6 | 5% |
| Pet Connection Inc | $29,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Operation Spay Neuter Inc | $25,800 | 6 | 9% |
| Promises for Pets Inc | $18,100 | 6 | 99% |
| Kiski Valley Cat & Kitten Rescue | $13,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Critter Care Adoption Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Angel Ridge Animal Rescue Inc | $4,500 | 2 | 2% |
| With a Golden Spirit Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 6% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($86k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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
About Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund
- How much does Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund give?
- Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund reported 14 grants totaling $169,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (100%).
- Who are Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Animal Friends Inc ($264k), Butler County Humane Society ($204k), Humane Animal Rescue ($145k).
- Does Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Edward B Dunlap Jr Foundation, Aetna Foundation Inc.
- Where is Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund based?
- Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund is based in SC.
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