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Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$207k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$65,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 27
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$4.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$207k9%
FY202427$187k33%
FY202319$187k11%
FY202221$205k14%
FY202120$212k15%
FY202020$188k15%
FY201918$137k22%
FY201820$187k20%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$598kReligion$437kEducation$243kPhilanthropy$87kYouth Development$77kPublic Benefit$74kCommunity Improvement$71kArts & Culture$52kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Johns Church$102,6809n/a
Defiance College$102,50090%
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio$63,50090%
City of Defiance$60,0004n/a
The Defiance Community Cultural Council Inc$39,00057%
Fort Defiance Humane Society$22,23044%
Defiance Development and Visitors Bureau Inc$20,50052%
Cpc Women's Health Resource$19,50061%
Defiance Athletic Boosters Inc$10,000115%
Defiance City Schools Foundation Inc$9,00099%
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All grantees of Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Johns Church$102,6809n/a
Defiance College$102,50090%
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio$63,50090%
City of Defiance$60,0004n/a
The Defiance Community Cultural Council Inc$39,00057%
Fort Defiance Humane Society$22,23044%
Defiance Development and Visitors Bureau Inc$20,50052%
Cpc Women's Health Resource$19,50061%
Defiance Athletic Boosters Inc$10,000115%
Defiance City Schools Foundation Inc$9,00099%
Beloved Initiative$7,5002n/a
Defiance Public Library$5,7504n/a
Johnson Memorial Library Friends$5,0001n/a
Lily Creek Farms$4,10031%
St Marys Catholic School$3,8501n/a
Defiance County Historical Society$3,0001n/a
Lifewise Inc$2,50020%
Trees of Life Inc$1,0001n/a
St Mary Catholic Church$6002n/a
Black Swamp Conservancy$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDefiance College: $102,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Western Ohio: $63,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Defiance Community Cultural Council Inc: $39,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetFort Defiance Humane Society: $22,230 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetDefiance Development and Visitors Bureau Inc: $20,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCpc Women's Health Resource: $19,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetDefiance Athletic Boosters Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetDefiance City Schools Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetLily Creek Farms: $4,100 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLifewise Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBlack Swamp Conservancy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 11.

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.

Defiance Area Foundation IncOH22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Defiance Area Foundation Inc · Premier Bank Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · 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.

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Find your warmest path to Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust

How much does Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust give?
Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust reported 32 grants totaling $207,320 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Religion (25%), Education (14%).
Who are Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Johns Church ($103k), Defiance College ($103k), Girl Scouts of Western Ohio ($64k).
Does Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Defiance Area Foundation Inc, Premier Bank Foundation, Baird Foundation Inc.
Where is Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust based?
Justin F Coressel Charitable Trust is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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