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.

Where is Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust based?

Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust is based in KS.

Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust

Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$100k

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.

Education$538kReligion$58kArts & Culture$49kEnvironment$44kAnimals$22kFood & Nutrition$21kHuman Services$15kHealth$15kOther$0

02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k12 grants · $13k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$606k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL	$100,000
SHAWNEE INDIAN MISSION FOUNDATION	$2,500
POWELL GARDENS	$2,500
VILLAGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$2,500
TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS	$2,000
KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS	$1,000
ROSE BROOKS CENTER	$500
SHELTER KC	$500
WAYSIDE WAIFS	$500
CITY UNION MISSION	$250
SALVATION ARMY	$250
ASPCA	$250
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY	$250

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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$760k · 26 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$760k

$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+23%

Still filing today

77%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

HA
HORIZON ACADEMY
5× · 2017–2021 · $33k · revenue +84%
SI
SHAWNEE INDIAN MISSION FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +118%
PG
POWELL GARDENS INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +33%

Funded once

WH
Welcome House Inc
one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -42%
SO
SOCIETY OF FELLOWS - NELSON ATKINS MUSEUM
one grant, 2019 · $5k
AF
ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTSgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +118%

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.

Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition

Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services

Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.

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Kansas Farm Bureau

Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.

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Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment

Southeast Kansas Community Action P

Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.

Community Improvement

Kansas City Museum Foundation Inc

The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…

Arts & Culture

Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans

To assist the state of kansas in helping to improve the health of all kansans, particularly those unserved or underserved.

Health

Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health

Chain of Hope Kc

Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.

Animals

Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy

The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Kc; the most unlike its peers is Americas Foundation 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

27 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. 27 of the 42 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)

27/27

Grantees still filing

19/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$540,000Other$153,700Arts & Culture$37,000Environment$24,750Animals$18,000Health$13,500Housing & Shelter$9,400

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO31.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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