· Private foundation
The Naomi and James I Fitzgibbon Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKY RIVER LITTLE LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| LIFEWORK LEADERSHIP ORLANDO | $5,000 |
| PATHWAYS FOR LIFE ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| MAROONERS | $1,500 |
| PROJECT CANIS | $1,500 |
| ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVE | $1,000 |
| REECE'S RAINBOW | $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 (FY24–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Our purpose is to partner with parents in educating their children to become the next generation of christian leaders equipped to shape culture through faithful, wise, and joyful christian living.
To further education quality in Erie
Reach offers a holistic approach to student learning where parents have a voice. the vision is achieving academic excellence through personalized insutruction, and parent, teacher & community partnerships.
River valley charter school provides students in grades 7-12 with a rigorous, standards-based college preparatory program in a small school environment that allows for personal attention to each student and encourages strong family…
Rca provides education in an environment designed to develop the students abilities in christian character, academic acheivement, personal development, social responsibilities, & leadership qualities
River of life school exists to provide a christ centered education to all children regardless of their socio-economic situation. river of life celebrates the diversity of the body of christ and equips children to serve god, people, and…
Christian life academy supports christian families by providing a biblically based education that develops individual academic excellence. we seek to form young men and women who will know and serve the lord jesus christ with all their…
Lifeworks provides access to programs that fulfill our neighbors' immediate needs and delivers skills, tools and opportunities to establish economic security for themselves, their families and communities.
The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. the foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford…
A private school providing an exceptional college preparatory program with a specialty in learning disabilities.
To provide a meaningful, hands-on learning experience in an active, engaged, and involved school.
Riverway learning community is committed to the foundation of a more hopeful and enlightened future by the development of an environment that nurtures the growth of mind, body and spirit, both as individuals and as members of the larger…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifework Leadership Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Marooners. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 THE MAROONERS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEWORK LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEWORK LEADERSHIP ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds EDGEWATER YACHT CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY RIVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REECE'S RAINBOW 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 The Naomi and James I Fitzgibbon Family 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, a single department, or state — 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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