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.

Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund

Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$44k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$932k

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $38k
$10k–50k5 grants · $132k

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ANIMAL FRIENDS	$43,800
BUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY	$39,000
WESTMORELAND COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY	$20,800
HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE	$15,000
BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY	$13,000
ANIMAL CARE AND WELFARE	$9,200
WHITE OAK ANIMAL SAFE HAVEN	$8,000
PET CONNECTION	$4,500
OPERATION SPAY NEUTER	$4,400
BRIDGE TO HOME RESCUE	$3,200
KISKI VALLEY CAT KITTEN RESCUE	$3,000
PROMISES FOR PETS	$2,800
Individual grant recipient	$1,800
Individual grant recipient	$1,200

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 16 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$58k

Still filing today

81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

AnimalsEnvironmentOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

AF
Animal Friends Inc
6× · 2017–2025 · $264k · revenue +24%
BC
BUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
6× · 2017–2025 · $204k · revenue +179%
HA
HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE
5× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +35%

Funded once

AR
Animal Rescue League
one grant, 2017 · $30k
WC
Westmoreland County Humane Soc
one grant, 2017 · $15k
CC
CRITTER CARE ADOPTION INC
one grant, 2017 · $5k

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.

04Its field

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.

Paws and Claws Animal Shelter

Animals

Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals

Golden Ark

homeless animal shelter

Animals

Hope Fur Paws Rescue

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.

Animals

Radnor Outreach & Animal Rescue

Provide animal rescue with humane education and outreach.

Animals

Safe Haven Inc

Animals

Project Hope Animal Rescue

Animal welfare

Animals

Humane Society of Union County Inc

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.

Animals

Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals

Phelps County Animal Rescue

provide shelter and care for dogs and cats

Animals

Raskels Rescue

Animals

Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Friends Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 23 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/13

Grantees still filing

11/13

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animals$992,700Other$91,200Environment$18,100

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.

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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elinor Jones McConnell Trust Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home