West Virginia · Private foundation
Fenton Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $276k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 46
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Fenton Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $276k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $208k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $207k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $563k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $237k | 3% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $261k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $226k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $223k | 9% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marietta College | $278,791 | 9 | 0% |
| Artsbridge Inc | $126,000 | 9 | 8% |
| First Baptist Church | $101,000 | 9 | n/a |
| The Education Alliance-Business and Community for Public Schools Inc | $82,700 | 9 | 1% |
| Williamstown Community Assn | $38,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Marietta Family YMCA | $25,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Wood County Schools | $24,112 | 8 | n/a |
| The Children's Home Society of West Virginia Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Women's Care Center Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Veritas Classical Academy Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fenton Foundation Inc 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: Parkersburg Area Community Foundation Inc (Previously Pacf Inc) · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Peoples Bank Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc · Marietta Community Foundation Inc · United Way Alliance of the Mid-Ohio Valley Inc · The Ross Foundation Inc · Deitzler Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Fenton Foundation Inc
- How much does Fenton Foundation Inc give?
- Fenton Foundation Inc reported 33 grants totaling $276,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fenton Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (24%), Education (20%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Fenton Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Marietta College ($279k), Artsbridge Inc ($126k), First Baptist Church ($101k).
- Does Fenton Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fenton Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fenton Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Parkersburg Area Community Foundation Inc (Previously Pacf Inc), Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc, Peoples Bank Foundation.
- Where is Fenton Foundation Inc based?
- Fenton Foundation Inc is based in WV.
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