· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| SANDSCREST FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| BEREA COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| CNEWA | $2,000 |
| YWCA WHEELING | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| YOUTH SERVICE SYSTEM INC | $1,500 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $1,000 |
| ST MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| BETHANY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| CHAPEL HILL CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| BECKLEY AREA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Widows Mite Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +9% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBETHANY COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +3%
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING WV4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +6%
AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- TSTHE SOCIETY OF THE SACRED CROSSone grant, 2024 · $4k
- OLOUR LADY OF THE ANGELS MONASTERYone grant, 2023 · $500
- WHWHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INCone grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue +22%
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
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Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
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To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 66 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 BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BECKLEY AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING WV ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION CAREGIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Sandscrest Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY INSTITUTE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Widows Mite Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Widows Mite Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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