Starvaggi Charities Inc
Weirton, WV · EIN 55-0602138. Reported 193 grants totalling $2,973,155 to 58 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Starvaggi Charities Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $200 and $1,500; the smallest was $200 and the largest $812,723. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weirton Medical Center Foundation | Weirton, WV | $1,572,682 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Franciscan University of Steubenville | Steubenville, OH | $882,723 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Madonna High School | Weirton, WV | $216,400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Starvaggi Memorial Park Civic Assn | Weirton, WV | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Paul's Catholic School | Weirton, WV | $27,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Weirton Salvation Army | Weirton, WV | $27,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Paul's Catholic Church | Weirton, WV | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jefferson County Humane Society | Wintersville, OH | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Joseph the Worker Day School | Weirton, WV | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Way of Weirton | Weirton, WV | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church | Weirton, WV | $11,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Joseph Grade School | Weirton, WV | $10,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Weirton Area Museum & Cultural Center | Weirton, WV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Weirton Christian Center | Weirton, WV | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Friendship Room | Steubenville, OH | $8,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hancock County Sheltered Workshop | Weirton, WV | $6,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| James Mccune Scholarship Foundation | Weirton, WV | $6,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Joseph the Worker Catholic Church | Weirton, WV | $6,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Bread Basket Inc | Weirton, WV | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trinity Health System Foundation | Steubenville, OH | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Urban Mission | Steubenville, OH | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Change Inc | Weirton, WV | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| A Child's Place CASA Ltd | Follansbee, WV | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bethany College | Bethany, WV | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Christmas in the Park Charities | Follansbee, WV | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Comfort House of Hancock Co Child Advocacy Center | Weirton, WV | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fritz Williams Memorial Scholarship Fund | Weirton, WV | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Table of Hopefirst UMC | Weirton, WV | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| West Liberty University Foundation Inc | West Liberty, WV | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wheeling University | Wheeling, WV | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wvncc Weirton Campus | Weirton, WV | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greek Catholic Union Lodge 697 | Beaver, PA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Brooke-Hancock Retired Senior Volunteer | Follansbee, WV | $1,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Paris Cemetary Association | Burgettstown, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tri-State Young Marines | Weirton, WV | $1,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| All Saints Greek Orthodox Church | Weirton, WV | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Christ United Methodist Church | Weirton, WV | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cove United Presbyterian Church | Weirton, WV | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| First Baptist Church of Weirton | Weirton, WV | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| First Church of the Nazarene | Weirton, WV | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| First United Methodist Church | Weirton, WV | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Morning Star Baptist Church | Weirton, WV | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pleasant Valley Methodist Church | Weirton, WV | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Shiloh Apostolic Faith Assembly | Weirton, WV | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Anthony Catholic Church | Follansbee, WV | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church | Weirton, WV | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | Weirton, WV | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Way of Jefferson County | Steubenville, OH | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Weirton Heights Memorial Baptist Church | Weirton, WV | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nation Fire Safety Council | Weirton, WV | $600 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Weirton Covenant Church | Weirton, WV | $600 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Blue Stream Farms | Weirton, WV | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ccity of Follansbee Community Days | Follansbee, WV | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hancock Voulunteer Fire Department | New Cumberland, WV | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Weirton Board of Parks & Recreation | Weirton, WV | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Weirton Board of Parks and Recreation | Weirton, WV | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Fire Safety Council | Weirton, WV | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Never Alone Wv | Weirton, WV | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
46 of 58 (79%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 90%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Weirton Medical Center Foundation
TO HELP COVER MEDICAL EXPENSES OF INDIGENT INDIVIDUALS - Madonna High School
GENERAL OPERATION OF SCHOOL - Franciscan University of Steubenville
FOR SCHOLARSHIP AND GENERAL FUND - United Way of Weirton
TO ASSIST INDIVIDUALS IN NEED OF FOOD, SHELTER, UTILITIES, AND VARIOUS PROGRAMS - Weirton Salvation Army
FOOD PANTRY & CHILDREN'S SUMMER CAMP - Hancock County Sheltered Workshop
TO PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT FOR MENTALLY AND PHIYSICALLY CHALLENGED INDIVIDUALS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 49 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 50 | $964,023 | $500 |
| 2022 | 50 | $900,598 | $500 |
| 2023 | 46 | $518,069 | $500 |
| 2024 | 47 | $590,465 | $500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
69% of its giving went to organizations in West Virginia. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in West Virginia.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Starvaggi Charities Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 401 Pennsylvania Avenue, Weirton, WV, 26062. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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