How much does Jessie Corson Trust give?

Jessie Corson Trust reported 10 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Jessie Corson Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (100%).

Who are Jessie Corson Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Zoological Society of Pittsburgh ($374k), Beaver County Humane Society ($235k), Humane Society of Somerset County ($220k).

Does Jessie Corson Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Jessie Corson 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 Jessie Corson Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cigna Group Foundation, Eqt Foundation, Peterson Family Foundation-Tr.

Where is Jessie Corson Trust based?

Jessie Corson Trust is based in WV.

Foundation Dossiers

West Virginia · Private foundation

Jessie Corson Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$300k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 10
Grants FY2025: 9
Organizations funded FY2024: 11%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $60,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 9; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $5.0M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Jessie Corson Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	10	$300k	0%
FY2024	9	$262k	11%
FY2023	8	$229k	0%
FY2022	9	$240k	11%
FY2021	8	$217k	13%
FY2020	8	$221k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$1.5M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh	$373,589	6	0%
Beaver County Humane Society	$235,000	6	2%
Humane Society of Somerset County	$220,000	5	10%
Hope Haven Farm Sanctuary	$219,100	6	20%
Animal Friends Inc	$101,741	5	0%
White Oak Animal Safe Haven No Kill Shelter	$91,000	6	6%
Washington Area Humane Society	$83,520	4	1%
Gray Paws Sanctuary	$58,000	6	12%
Angel Ridge Animal Rescue Inc	$40,800	5	3%
National Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc	$40,000	2	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jessie Corson Trust supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 Cigna Group FoundationPA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cigna Group Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Peterson Family Foundation-Tr · Margaret Raphael Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Fred J and Shirley H Jordan Foundation · Edward B Dunlap Jr Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Jessie Corson Trust

How much does Jessie Corson Trust give?: Jessie Corson Trust reported 10 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Jessie Corson Trust fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (100%).
Who are Jessie Corson Trust's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Zoological Society of Pittsburgh ($374k), Beaver County Humane Society ($235k), Humane Society of Somerset County ($220k).
Does Jessie Corson Trust fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jessie Corson 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 Jessie Corson Trust?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cigna Group Foundation, Eqt Foundation, Peterson Family Foundation-Tr.
Where is Jessie Corson Trust based?: Jessie Corson Trust is based in WV.