· Private foundation
Fenton Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 67 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERITAS CLASSICAL ACADEMY 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fenton Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fenton Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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