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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Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
For The Pursuit Program to immerse students in an engaging career readiness curriculum, while developing the necessary skills to succeed in post-secondary education
Date Awarded: 12/05/2023
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $45,000.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
To award mini-grants designed to encourage, facilitate, and recognize innovative instructional programs in schools in southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia
Date Awarded: 03/19/2024
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $40,000.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
For a mini-grant program designed to promote innovative instruction through a network of southwestern Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and northern West Virginia schools
Date Awarded: 03/12/2019
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
For a mini-grant program designed to promote innovative instruction through a network of southwestern Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and northern West Virginia schools
Date Awarded: 03/10/2020
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
For a mini-grant program that promotes innovative instruction with an emphasis on lessons learned from adaptations to the COVID-19
Date Awarded: 06/08/2021
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $40,000.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
For a mini-grants program designed to encourage, facilitate, and recognize innovative instructional programs in schools across southwestern Pennsylvania and and northern West Virginia
Date Awarded: 03/08/2022
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $40,000.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
For a post-secondary transition program for career & technical education high schools
Date Awarded: 03/11/2013
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $190,000.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
To establish professional development learning laboratories in partnership with West Liberty University and Marshall University’s Harless Center for Rural Education Research and Development
Date Awarded: 12/10/2013
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $177,000.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
For a post-secondary transition program for five career and technical centers
Date Awarded: 03/11/2014
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $160,000.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
To expand Bricolage’s “Midnight Radio Jr.” programming into all Intermediate Unit 1 Alternative Schools and extend programming into Frazier and Magnolia schools
Date Awarded: 09/10/2024
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $125,000.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
To create inclusive STEM opportunities through VEX Robotics, empowering educators with training needed to foster a sense of collaboration, innovation, and belonging among students
Date Awarded: 06/17/2025
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $47,000.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
To award mini-grants designed to encourage, facilitate, and recognize innovative instructional programs in schools in southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia
Date Awarded: 09/09/2025
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $40,000.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
For The Midnight Radio Education Program, equipping students in southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia with 21st-century skills through the creation and publication of podcasts tied to core curriculum
Date Awarded: 12/09/2025
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $125,000.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
For a re-granting program to advance STEAM education in Southwestern Pennsylvania, North Central West Virginia, and the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia
Date Awarded: 03/14/2017
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
As a match to funding from ExxonMobil, to join a national program for improving Advanced Placement scores in math, science, and English (over three years)
Date Awarded: 06/13/2017
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $201,600.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
For a mini-grant program that promotes design-driven engineering and making through a network of southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia schools
Date Awarded: 03/13/2018
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
Intermediate Unit 1 (Coal Center, PA)
To test project-based math and science instruction through a network of aquaponics labs in Washington and Greene County schools
Date Awarded: 06/12/2018
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $65,000.00
Invest Appalachia (Asheville, NC)
For a Program Related Investment that will leverage $20 million in combined investments from national sources to finance businesses and community projects in West Virginia and Central Appalachia
Date Awarded: 10/26/2023
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $500,000.00
Invest Appalachia (Asheville, NC)
To match ARC ARISE funding for the planning phase of the Appalachian Downtown Developers Initiative, focusing on technical and financial capacity building for community-oriented real estate developers
Date Awarded: 03/19/2024
Program Area: Community and Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $57,500.00
Invest Appalachia (Asheville, NC)
To support the launch of Invest Appalachia, an impact investment fund with the initial goal to raise a $5 Million COVID-19 Response and Resilience Fund serving Central Appalachia (over two years)
Date Awarded: 12/08/2020
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $150,000.00