Kansas · Private foundation
Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $113k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $606k
- 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 Jack and Susan Pierson 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 13 | $113k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $59k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $70k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $325k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $59k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $60k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $56k | 53% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $49k | 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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pembroke Hill School | $500,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Horizon Academy | $33,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Shawnee Indian Mission Foundation | $29,500 | 7 | 14% |
| Powell Gardens Inc | $21,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Kansas City Community Gardens Inc | $14,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Tucson Botanical Gardens | $8,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Sunflower House Inc | $8,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Wayside Waifs Inc | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boys Club of Greater Kansas City | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($86k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation 10015600 · The Torosian Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Horizons
How this is measured
Compare Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust
- How much does Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust give?
- Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust reported 13 grants totaling $113,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (68%), Religion (7%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pembroke Hill School ($500k), Horizon Academy ($33k), Shawnee Indian Mission Foundation ($30k).
- Does Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jack and Susan Pierson 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 Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc.
- Where is Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust based?
- Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust is based in KS.
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