West Virginia · Private foundation
Widows Mite Fund
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.
- $43k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 38
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $628k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Widows Mite Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 40 | $39k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $26k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $18k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $21k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethany College | $7,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Catholic Near East Welfare Assoc Inc | $5,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Wheeling Wv | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Berea College | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| American Near East Refugee Aid | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
| American Indian College Fund | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| First Christian Church | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Wheeling Symphony Orchestra | $2,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Youth Services System Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Faith in Action Caregivers Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Widows Mite Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund · Hess Family Foundation · Vna Home Support Services Inc · August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · Helen J Prince Foundation Security National Trust Co Trustee · Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust · Rosemary M Front Charitable Trust · River Valley Health Foundation · Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation · The Driehorst Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Widows Mite Fund
- How much does Widows Mite Fund give?
- Widows Mite Fund reported 47 grants totaling $42,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 38 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Widows Mite Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Religion (23%), International (16%).
- Who are Widows Mite Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Bethany College ($8k), Catholic Near East Welfare Assoc Inc ($5k), Young Womens Christian Association of Wheeling Wv ($5k).
- Does Widows Mite Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Widows Mite Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Widows Mite Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation, Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund, Hess Family Foundation.
- Where is Widows Mite Fund based?
- Widows Mite Fund is based in WV.
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