Grants Awarded
As indicated, users may search by Program Area, State, or Year of Authorization. In addition, by entering a term in the criteria field, the search will return grants with that term in either the organization name or city fields.
Grant seekers are reminded that the emphasis of the Foundation’s grants program evolves over time and that prior grants may not be indicative of the Foundation’s future program emphasis.
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Coalfield Development Corporation (Wayne, WV)
To develop a toolkit to assist small towns in creating mixed-use housing and commercial building redevelopment based on the Urlings General Store model
Date Awarded: 06/10/2014
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $30,000.00
Coalfield Development Corporation (Wayne, WV)
To advance sustainability of social enterprises through the expansion of online and urban markets for West Virginia-made products
Date Awarded: 03/10/2020
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $300,000.00
Coalfield Development Corporation (Huntington, WV)
For leveraging public and private funding to develop a new commercial base in recycling, reuse, and bio-based manufacturing which directly employs low-income people (over two years)
Date Awarded: 06/08/2021
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $350,000.00
Coalfield Development Corporation (Huntington, WV)
To launch a first of its kind climate change resiliency strategy to transform the economy in the coalfields region of West Virginia as part of the national Build Back Better challenge (over four years)
Date Awarded: 03/08/2022
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $2,000,000.00
Coalfield Development Corporation (Wayne, WV)
For planning and development of a program to train workers in solar panel installation and related construction skills
Date Awarded: 06/09/2015
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00
Coalfield Development Corporation (Wayne, WV)
For expansion of social enterprises in agriculture, construction and renewable energy (over 18 mos.)
Date Awarded: 06/14/2016
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $395,000.00
Coalfield Development Corporation (Wayne, WV)
To strengthen, systematize, sustain, and scale the organization’s approach to economic diversification in southern West Virginia, to promote job creation and business development (over two years)
Date Awarded: 03/13/2018
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $400,000.00
Collaborative for the 21st Century Appalachia Inc (Charleston, WV)
To support student-led food businesses and assistance to communities to promote culinary tourism
Date Awarded: 12/10/2013
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $105,000.00
Collaborative for the 21st Century Appalachia Inc (Charleston, WV)
To provide assistance for emerging young farmers to launch successful enterprises
Date Awarded: 09/15/2015
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $105,000.00
Committee of Seventy (Philadelphia, PA)
To provide training and resources to educators across southwestern Pennsylvania, which will facilitate the delivery of high-quality civics instruction, fostering students’ development of civic skills and lifetime habits of citizenship
Date Awarded: 12/09/2025
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $75,000.00
Common Sense Media (San Francisco, CA)
To assist educators in the assessment, selection, and use of digital learning tools (over two years)
Date Awarded: 09/15/2015
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $150,000.00
Common Sense Media (San Francisco, CA)
To assist educators in the best use of digital learning tools (over two years)
Date Awarded: 12/10/2013
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $200,000.00
Community Access Incorporated (South Charleston, WV)
For a Work Exploration/State Parks Project that will benefit high school aged students with developmental disabilities
Date Awarded: 12/05/2023
Program Area: Human Services
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $125,000.00
Community Access, Incorporated (Charleston, WV)
For a Work Exploration Program partnering with local businesses, state parks, school districts, and other stakeholders to benefit high school-aged students with disabilities, and at-risk students
Date Awarded: 06/17/2025
Program Area: Community and Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $125,000.00
Community Autism Resources and Education Systems (Hurricane, WV)
For the CARES Learning Launchpad initiative to create the nation’s first autism support apprenticeship program to grow West Virginia’s workforce, improve therapy quality, and build a scalable, replicable model
Date Awarded: 12/09/2025
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $133,500.00
Community Connections Inc (Princeton, WV)
To deliver an experiential training program on arts-based community revitalization strategies in 10 communities
Date Awarded: 06/13/2017
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $115,000.00
Community Connections Inc (Princeton, WV)
To engage communities in growing their creative economies through a multimedia experiential workshop and coaching program
Date Awarded: 12/11/2018
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $130,000.00
Community Connections Inc (Princeton, WV)
For a multimedia workshop that empowers communities to develop arts programming and resources
Date Awarded: 09/15/2015
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $111,000.00
Community Design Center of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)
To provide design assistance and community planning to Monongahela River towns in Washington and Fayette Counties
Date Awarded: 06/14/2016
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley, Inc. (Wheeling, WV)
For the Community Leader Internship Program which matches high-achieving local college students with substantiative internships in their chosen field to help retain young talent in the Upper Ohio Valley
Date Awarded: 05/22/2023
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $8,000.00