· Private foundation
Fenton Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $214k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARIETTA MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| MARIETTA COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| PARKERSBURG AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE MID-OHIO VALLEY | $24,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $19,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY - MARIETTA | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY - PARKERSBURG | $15,000 |
| ARTSBRIDGE | $14,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $12,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - OHIO RIVER VALLEY | $10,000 |
| WILLIAMSTOWN FOOTBALL CLUB | $10,000 |
| FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $9,000 |
| EDUCATION ALLIANCE | $6,000 |
| EVERGREEN ARTS AND HUMANITIES | $5,500 |
| WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MCMarietta College9× · 2017–2025 · $279k · revenue +34%
- AIARTSBRIDGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +17%
- TETHE EDUCATION ALLIANCE-BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +295%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $6k
- WEWILLIAMSTOWN ELEMENTRY SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $6k
- DWDISCOVERY WORLD ON MARKETone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The business council of westchester's mission is to work hard to grow the economy, create jobs and build a strong business community in westchester county.
To enhance, promote, and serve the business communities of the city of williamsburg, virginia, james city county, virginia, the bruton district of york county, virginia, and the yorktown, virginia waterfront.
We exist to inspire all students to be the best versions of themselves through a transformative education grounded in academic excellence within our inclusive community.
The mission of winchester community music school is to provide outstanding and diverse musical education and performance, accessible to all, in winchester, neighboring communities, and beyond.
Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.
The woman's club of wisconsin cultivates educational, cultural, philanthropic, and social exchange to inspire engagement in the community.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
The mission of the society is to promote an interst in the broad spectrum of history with emphasis on that of western virginia; to collect, preserve, interpret and make available materials relating to that history; to sponsor research and…
The mission of the wccc is to serve as a model early childhood education program for young children, while also serving as an early childhood resource for parents of the college and community.
Promote an understanding of the history of washington county, ohio by collecting, preserving, and making available to the public, that history, and its relationship to the region beyond washington county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Education Alliance-Business and Community for Public Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Williamstown Womens Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Marietta College ↗
- Who funds ARTSBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION ALLIANCE-BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds MARIETTA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds VERITAS CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Ely Chapman Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CASTLE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WESTBROOK HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSTOWN FOOTBALL BOOSTERS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITIES SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Fenton Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.