· Private foundation
Fitzsimmons Foundation
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 $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 |
| Mountaineer Areas Council | $1,000 |
| Holy Family Child Care Center | $1,000 |
| Mountain State Spotlight | $1,000 |
| Steubenville High School | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 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 +28% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 98 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fitzsimmons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fitzsimmons Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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