· Private foundation
The Richard J Fitton Family Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
79% of The Richard J Fitton Family Fdn’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Hamilton Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $200,356 |
| YMCA | $30,000 |
| FORT HAMILTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–20, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +37% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCOMMUNITY FIRST SOLUTIONS3× · 2017–2020 · $595k · revenue +10%
- THTHE HAMILTON PARKS CONSERVANCY5× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +107%
- GMGREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA2× · 2019–2020 · $75k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- JNJOE NUXHALL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
- RTROSS TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPTone grant, 2020 · $40k
- TFTHE FORT HAMILTON HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +8%
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.
To solicit, invest, and disburse funds as grants and scholarships for the educational, charitable, artistic, social and civic benefit of the citizens in the surrounding community.
To improve the health of central pennsylvania's residents by delivering high quality, respectful and patient-centered health and related social servies that promote access, treatment, education, and prevention regardless of health,…
To mobilize people, ideas and investment to make this a community where every individual has equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity. (continued on schedule o)
To provide quality, culturally sensitive and accessible primary health care services focusing on the medically underserved, underinsured, and uninsured residing in northern hamilton county and surrounding areas.
Promoting the mental health and general welfare of persons in the community by supporting financially and otherwise conducting activities or programs for the benefit of hamilton center, inc., the "supported organizaton", an indiana…
Improve community apprearance through purchasing vacant properties
Through advocacy, partnerships, and high-quality programs, our dedicated team is breaking down barriers to equity and opportunity, while building self-sufficiency across generations.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 22 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 HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FIRST SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE HAMILTON PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds INSPIRATION STUDIOS ↗
- Who funds FORT HAMILTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FORT HAMILTON HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL ADOPTION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Molyneaux Foundation 1045000246 · Hamilton Community Foundation · First Financial Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Richard J Fitton Family Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richard J Fitton Family Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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