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Starvaggi Charities Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$590k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$477k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.0MHealth$1.6MReligion$1.0MFood & Nutrition$80kHousing & Shelter$58kRecreation & Sports$52kAnimals$26kHuman Services$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k42 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
  • $250k+1 grant · $477k
$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEIRTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$476,915
MADONNA HIGH SCHOOL$29,200
ST PAUL'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL$22,000
FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE$17,500
ST JOSEPH THE WORKER DAY SCHOOL$10,000
WEIRTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$5,000
WEIRTON SALVATION ARMY$5,000
SACRED HEART OF MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
JEFFERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$2,000
JAMES MCCUNE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$1,500
HANCOCK COUNTY SHELTERED WORKSHOP$1,500
TRINITY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$1,000
ST PAUL'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$1,000
ST JOSEPH GRADE SCHOOL$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 11%ADAM'S QUEST: $1k → 11%ADAM'S QUEST: $1k → 11%FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 56 repeat orgs$895k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -38% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
16

Total granted

$4.0M
$895k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-38%

Still filing today

23%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEmploymentHuman ServicesAnimalsReligionFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FU
    FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +36%
  • DO
    DAUGHTERS OF HOLY MARY OF THE HEART OF JESUS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +81%
  • CB
    Community Bread Basket Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • WC
    WV CATHOLIC FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $825k
  • SM
    STARVAGGI MEMORIAL PARK CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • WA
    WEIRTON AREA MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Waynesburg 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…

Education
2
Ohio Christian University

Ohio christian university (ocu) is committed to offering a complete education that develops students intellectually, professionally, and spiritually. (continued on schedule o)ocu offers degree programs designed to equip students to become…

Education
3
Washington University of Virginia

Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs

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4
Wiley College

Provide a liberal arts education with globally focused endeavors to provide an intellectually stimulating environment, promoting student competencies in communication, as well as critical and analytical thinking.

Education
5
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
6
Wickenburg Community Services Corporation

The wickenburg community services corporation is a nonprofit organization working to improve the quality of life for seniors, the disabled, and families through unique outreach programs for these often-underserved populations in wickenburg…

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7
Westminster Village Inc

We help people live their lives to the fullest thru the provision of a comprehensive continuum of programs and services. regardless of whether a resident is in independent living, assisted living, memory care, or skilled nursing care, our…

Human Services
8
West Virginia Independent Colleges and Universities Inc

The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.

Education
9
Wetzel-Tyler Child Advocacy Center

To reduce the traumatic effects of abuse, protect children from maltreatment, seek justice for child victims, investigate abuse and strengthen the communitys awareness.

Human Services
10
Humane Society of Jefferson County Inc

The mission of the humane society of jefferson county is to improve the lives of animals in need through compassionate care, adoption, advocacy and education while also inspiring humane communities that foster kindness and respect for all.

Animals
11
Union Institute & University

Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…

—
12
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections Inc; the most unlike its peers is Adams Quest. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 73 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEIRTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,598,682 · OtherWEIRTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONWV CATHOLIC FOUNDATION INC: $824,728 · OtherWV CATHOLIC FOUNDATION INCMADONNA HIGH SCHOOL: $315,850 · OtherMADONNA HIGH SCHOOL+61 more: $495,550 · Other+61 moreFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $1,627,194 · EducationFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE+2 more: $3,500 · EducationJEFFERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 · AnimalsDAUGHTERS OF HOLY MARY OF THE HEART OF JESUS: $15,462 · ReligionHANCOCK COUNTY SHELTERED WORKSHOP INC: $9,000 · EmploymentCHANGE INC: $4,500 · EmploymentBLUE STREAM FARMS CORPORATION: $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentWEIRTON AREA MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,234,810Education$1,630,694Animals$25,000Religion$15,462Employment$13,500Youth Development$10,500Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $1,627,194 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetDAUGHTERS OF HOLY MARY OF THE HEART OF JESUS: $15,462 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetBLUE STREAM FARMS CORPORATION: $10,500 over 2y, 26% of budgetWEIRTON CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHANCOCK COUNTY SHELTERED WORKSHOP INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Bread Basket Inc: $7,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHANGE INC: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetA CHILDS PLACE CASA LTD: $3,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY COLLEGE: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAdams Quest: $2,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY: $1,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWEIRTON ROTARY CLUB: $1,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHEELING JESUIT UNIVERSITY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DAUGHTERS OF HOLY MARY OF THE HEART OF JESUS ↗
  • Who funds BLUE STREAM FARMS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WEIRTON AREA MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WEIRTON CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HANCOCK COUNTY SHELTERED WORKSHOP INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Bread Basket Inc ↗
  • Who funds URBAN MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds A CHILDS PLACE CASA LTD ↗
  • Who funds WEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Adams Quest ↗

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.

John C Williams Charitable Tr 8024PA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John C Williams Charitable Tr 8024 · Hancock County Savings Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Mary Jane Brooks Charitable Trust · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · Weirton United Way Inc · Laposta-Banketas Family Foundation · Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust · Charles M Pugliese and Thelma M Pugliese Charitable Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Starvaggi Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Starvaggi Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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