· Private foundation
Fitzsimmons Foundation
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 $10k13 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $311k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Oglebay Foundation | $310,600 |
| Wheeling Central Catholic High Sch | $50,000 |
| Corpus Christi School | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Drug Free Clubs | $8,000 |
| St Michael Parish School | $5,000 |
| Pike Cubs Baseball Softball | $5,000 |
| City of Wheeling | $3,250 |
| Bethlehem Apostolic Church | $2,500 |
| Cornell University | $2,000 |
| Warwood Lions Club | $1,500 |
| Steubenville High School | $1,000 |
| Mountain State Spotlight | $1,000 |
| Sam Andy Basketball Classic | $1,000 |
| Holy Family Child Care Center | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +5%
- OFOGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $586k · revenue +48%
Cornell University8× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- WCWVU COLLEGE OF LAWone grant, 2019 · $100k
- WHWHEELING HEALTH DEPARTMENTone grant, 2018 · $17k
- MFMake-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Incone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +23%
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.
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
To offer a wide range of strategic partnerships, academia, employment and community opportunities to the state, while promoting innovation and critical thinking within our workforce. Our vision is to catalyze economic growth and improve…
To support the West Virginia University School of Medicine in the furtherance of its charitable, scientific, and educational purposes by serving as its faculty practice plan and providing a full range of business management services to its…
The mission of ccwv is to help our communities live the healthiest lives possible by meeting their immediate and long-term healthcare needs. this mission is accomplished by providing high quality, accessible, comprehensive, culturally…
To foster, support, and assist in any research and economic development activities consistent with the educational objectives and mission of west virginia state university.
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
Communityworks in west virignia (cwwv) creates housing and community development solutions for all west virginians through a network of member organizations. cwwv carries out its mission by providing effective training and technical…
The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.
To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.
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 mission of Webster County Memorial Hospital is to provide excellent, high quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.
To foster and support research at west virginia university (wvu) and to provide evaluation, development, patenting, management and marketing services for inventions by the faculty, staff, and students of wvu.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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 44 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 98 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 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds HARMONY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEARVIEW VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY CHILD CARE & DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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: 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
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 Fitzsimmons Foundation 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.
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