AFP Mahoning-Shenango Chapter’s 2025 National Philanthropy Day Awards

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Fred Moran says he wants other area companies to follow the philanthropic example he and his family have set. 

The retired owner of Window World Penn Ohio and his family are the 2025 honorees for Outstanding Philanthropist. The award is presented by the Mahoning Shenango chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Window World Penn Ohio has offices in Pittsburgh, Boardman, West Virginia, Akron, Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit and has about 160 employees, including installers. 

One of the more significant beneficiaries of the Moran family’s philanthropy is the Ursuline Sisters Mission. Its development director, Sheila Donnadio, nominated the Morans for the honor.

“Supporting the community is a way of life for the Moran family that has been passed down from generation to generation,” Donnadio wrote in her nomination letter. 

“The community has been very good to us all in the areas we work,” Fred Moran says. “Business has been very good, and that’s the only way we can do what we can do, because we are being supported by the community.”

The family’s involvement with the Ursuline Sisters Mission began with taking over the benefit golf outing for Beatitude House a few years after its start.

“It’s been growing ever since,” Pat Moran, Window World owner and Fred Moran’s son, says. This year was the best yet – despite being rained out in the morning, the event netted about $110,000. 

The Morans’ involvement with the ministry also included co-chairing the 2016 Inspiring Hope campaign to benefit Beatitude House’s ministries, helping to raise $4.3 million.

Earlier this year, he donated $300,000 to the Ursuline Sisters’ Fullness of Life, Future of Hope capital campaign. In recognition of the gift, the lobby of the Ursuline Motherhouse in Canfield will be named in memory of Moran’s wife, Lucy, who died in January 2024.

Pat and his wife, Angie, also donated $10,000 to that campaign. 

Other beneficiaries of the Morans’ generosity include United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, Salvation Army, Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley and Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber. 

Fred Moran says he doesn’t personally need the recognition that will come with the National Philanthropy Day honor but thought it would be good for his family and company because it could inspire other philanthropy. 

“There’s so many people, so many companies that could do the same thing,” he remarks. 

Fred Moran’s grandchildren, Mandi Fluck and Patrick Moran, also have followed in their father’s and grandfather’s footsteps, serving with various boards and service clubs, Donnadio wrote. “They are a family that not only provides financial support but believes in getting involved by investing their time and talent with these organizations,” she said. 

Fluck says the company hires staffers who have “that same mentality of giving back to the community.”

The company’s accounting director recently raised a puppy though America’s VetDogs, which is affiliated with Window World, that will be matched with a veteran who suffers from night terrors. 

Employees also volunteer for Salvation Army bell ringing during the holiday season, run in Panerathon and take part in similar activities, she says.

Money is a part of philanthropy but not all of it, Fred Moran adds. It’s people who have the ability to donate their time, their talent and their expertise. 

“We all just have a bone in our body that just makes us want to give back, and that’s how I was raised,” Fluck remarks.  

Pictured at top: Fred Moran (center) with Amanda Fluck and Pat Moran.