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The Fitzpatrick Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Fitzpatrick Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$770kPhilanthropy$144kReligion$51kArts & Culture$37kHousing & Shelter$30kEducation$27kRecreation & Sports$10kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF GREATER STARK COUNTY$20,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$5,000
ARTS IN STARK$5,000
PARKINSONS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA$5,000
MERCY SERVICE LEAGUE$2,500
BROOKSIDE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC$2,500
CANTON BALLET$1,000
COMMQUEST SERVICES INC$1,000
BAY COLONY DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS$1,000
CANTON PALACE THEATRE ASSOCIATION$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARKINSONS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $5k → 10%PONY POWER THERAPIES INC: $3k → 7%COMMQUEST SERVICES INC: $1k → 13%COMMQUEST SERVICES INC: $1k → 13%EARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCE CENTER: $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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 21% of The Fitzpatrick Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 77%.

The Fitzpatrick Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 14 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
8

Total granted

$1.0M
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+25%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • MD
    MERCY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $423k · revenue +45%
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC MERCY HOSPITAL
    3× · 2018–2024 · $251k · revenue +2%
  • RO
    REFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +210%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST CENTRAL OHIO
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +24%
  • FR
    FATHER ROBERT KAYLOR SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • A
    ARTEMIS
    one grant, 2019 · $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.

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
Catholic Charities Corporation

Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.

Human Services
2
Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron

To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.

Health
3
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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4
Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio

The hospital council of northwest ohio is a member-driven organization that represents and advocates on behalf of its member hospitals and health systems, and provides collaborative opportunities to enhance the health status of the…

Health
5
Akron Children's Hospital Foundation

Akron children's hospital foundation is organized exclusively for the benefit of children's hospital medical center of akron ("chmca"). its purpose is to solicit gifts from donors to further the mission of chmca.

Health
6
Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…

Health
7
Bay Park Community Hospital

Bay park community hospital is dedicated to premier service, committed to superior quality, and devoted to our patients and families. our values include: collaboration - working together as a team, internally with employees, physicians,…

Health
8
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
9
Columbus Medical Association Foundation

The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…

Health
10
Trinity Health Foundation

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

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11
Trinity Hospital Twin City

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

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12
Catholic Social Services Inc

Motivated by faith, catholic social services helps poor and vulnerable seniors and families reach their potential.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stark Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $423,000 · OtherMERCY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONFLASHES OF HOPE: $35,000 · OtherFLASHES OF HOPE+10 more: $53,500 · Other+10 moreCLEVELAND CLINIC MERCY HOSPITAL: $250,779 · HealthCLEVELAND CLINIC MERCY HOSPITALAmerican Heart Association Inc: $27,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncMERCY SERVICE LEAGUE: $24,500 · HealthMERCY SERVICE LEAGUEUnited Way of Greater Stark County: $140,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of G…+1 more: $3,500 · PhilanthropyREFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $50,000 · ReligionARTS IN STARK: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST CENTRAL OHIO: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesPONY POWER THERAPIES INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesCOMMQUEST SERVICES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesEARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCE CENTER: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$511,500Health$302,279Philanthropy$143,500Religion$50,000Arts & Culture$32,000Housing & Shelter$25,000Human Services$10,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMERCY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $423,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetCLEVELAND CLINIC MERCY HOSPITAL: $250,779 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Stark County: $140,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetREFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFLASHES OF HOPE: $35,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetARTS IN STARK: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $27,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST CENTRAL OHIO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMERCY SERVICE LEAGUE: $24,500 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTOLEDO COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBROOKSIDE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $4,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSTARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPONY POWER THERAPIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMQUEST SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 436 BUCKEYE COUNCIL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANTON BALLET: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANTON PALACE THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Stark Community Found…Hoover Foundation Inc…Timken Foundation of …Sisters of Charity Fo…Premier Bank Foundati…The Belden Brick Char…Timken Co Charitable …The Fisher-Renkert Fo…E A Mahoney Family Fo…Fred F Silk Charitabl…The Ward J and Joy A …Akron Community Found…
Stark Community FoundationOH32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stark Community Foundation · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Timken Foundation of Canton · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Premier Bank Foundation · The Belden Brick Charitable Trust · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · The Fisher-Renkert Foundation · E A Mahoney Family Foundation · Fred F Silk Charitable Foundation · The Ward J and Joy A Timken Foundation · Akron Community 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 The Fitzpatrick Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fitzpatrick Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Fitzpatrick Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Fitzpatrick Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 26 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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