World Group Foundation
World Group Foundation is a Rocky River, Ohio–based 501(c)(3) private foundation affiliated with The World Group (World Shipping) that focuses on environmental initiatives (Blue World Project), disaster relief, and opportunity grants. The site lists Rocky River contact details and leadership (Mike FitzGibbon, Marilyn Hunger) matching public filings. Grantmaking is primarily by invitation with guidelines and an online portal referenced.
Source: Website · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
Established nonprofits with demonstrable capacity for significant general-purpose support—especially Ohio-based organizations working in environmental conservation, disaster relief, or community opportunity projects, and organizations with an existing relationship or local credibility.
Good Fit
- • Organization is based in Ohio or runs a major project in Ohio.
- • Project aligns with environmental conservation, disaster relief, or general opportunity grants.
- • Request is for sizable unrestricted or general-purpose funding and the organization can demonstrate scale and stewardship.
- • There is an existing relationship, introduction, or credible local connection to the foundation or its leadership.
- • Applicant follows the website guidelines and initiates contact via the provided email with a concise project summary.
Geography
Observed giving is tightly concentrated in Ohio (99% of dollars) with only one small out-of-state grant, indicating a narrowly local footprint in the latest year.
Recipient Variety
In the latest available year the foundation made three grants to three independent recipients; that is a small recipient set and indicates limited variety for the observed year.
New Applicants
The website and profile explicitly state grants are by invitation and the fund reports a preselected-only process; direct evidence of regular new-recipient turnover is unavailable in the single observed year, but the invitation-only framing and concentrated giving indicate low likelihood that unfamiliar applicants will routinely be admitted.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
