West Virginia · Private foundation
Fitzsimmons Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $443k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $310,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Fitzsimmons Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 17 | $443k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $395k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $468k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $446k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $384k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $373k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $345k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $241k | 73% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia University Foundation Inc | $1,150,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Oglebay Foundation Inc | $585,550 | 4 | 3% |
| City of Wheeling | $179,375 | 7 | n/a |
| Cornell University | $16,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Harmony House Inc | $15,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Youth Services System Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc | $13,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Clearview Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $9,475 | 1 | 8% |
| The House of the Carpenter Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Holy Family Child Care & Development Center Inc | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
Plus 68 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fitzsimmons Foundation 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: United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc · August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation · Hess Family Foundation · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · James B Chambers Memorial · Francis J and Edith Jackson Founda Security National Trust Company · Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · Robert L and Helen E Levenson Family Charit Fndtn · Robinson S Parlin Trust · Rosemary M Front Charitable Trust · Vna Home Support Services Inc
How this is measured
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About Fitzsimmons Foundation
- How much does Fitzsimmons Foundation give?
- Fitzsimmons Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $443,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fitzsimmons Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Recreation & Sports (23%), Public Benefit (5%).
- Who are Fitzsimmons Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: West Virginia University Foundation Inc ($1.2M), Oglebay Foundation Inc ($586k), City of Wheeling ($179k).
- Does Fitzsimmons Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fitzsimmons Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fitzsimmons Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc, August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation, Hess Family Foundation.
- Where is Fitzsimmons Foundation based?
- Fitzsimmons Foundation is based in WV.
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