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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Mountaineer Military Museum (Weston, WV)
To honor our past by educating this generation and generations to come through marketing efforts, display improvements, and school programming
Date Awarded: 06/17/2025
Program Area: Arts
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $15,000.00
Mountwest Community & Technical College (Huntington, WV)
To develop a workforce curriculum to meet the rapidly growing demand in data center operations and infrastructure
Date Awarded: 12/09/2025
Program Area: Community and Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $23,740.00
Mountwest Community & Technical College (Huntington, WV)
To support the Constructing Jobs in West Virginia Coal Country project which is a collaboration between Mountwest Community and Technical College and Hope Nation to create a construction degree that leads to new jobs in coal-impacted counties (/3 yrs)
Date Awarded: 06/13/2023
Program Area: Human Services
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $250,000.00
Mountwest Community & Technical College (Huntington, WV)
For a planning grant to study best practices in a workforce development program at Mountwest Community and Technical College which includes on-the-job experience and is connected to degree program opportunities with Marshall University
Date Awarded: 06/13/2023
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00
Mylan Park Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To grow the outdoor recreational tourism market in the tri-state area by providing marketing and coaching support to area planners and businesses to capitalize on new outdoor recreation assets
Date Awarded: 03/08/2022
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
NAMI of Greater Wheeling, Inc. (Wheeling, WV)
To build capacity for the National Alliance on Mental Illness in 11 southern West Virginia counties by expanding programs, advocacy, and local infrastructure
Date Awarded: 09/09/2025
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $80,000.00
National Parks Conservation Association (Washington, DC)
To engage West Virginia’s young adults in workshops, outreach, networking and service projects that inspire them to explore career pathways and support the growing outdoor recreation economy, embracing national parks as Appalachia’s backyard
Date Awarded: 12/09/2025
Program Area: Community and Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $45,000.00
National Road Heritage Corridor (Washington, PA)
To develop a detailed, actionable, community-driven strategy that harnesses the power of trails and outdoor recreation as catalysts for growth in southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia
Date Awarded: 03/11/2025
Program Area: Community and Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $75,000.00
National School Boards Association, Inc. (Alexandria, VA)
To organize a school board leadership collaborative, in partnership with the Remake Learning Council, to promote innovation, create shared resource partnerships, and advance policies for school reopening in the wake of COVID-19
Date Awarded: 06/09/2020
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
National Youth Science Foundation (Davis, WV)
To improve cross-generational STEAM access, engagement, and identity for rural families in Tucker County, West Virginia, through the facilitation of co-designed, sociocultural STEAM-based experiences
Date Awarded: 09/10/2024
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $75,000.00
National Youth Science Foundation (Davis, WV)
To improve cross-generational STEAM access, engagement, and identity for rural families in West Virginia through the facilitation of co-designed, sociocultural STEAM-based experiences
Date Awarded: 09/09/2025
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $78,000.00
National Youth Science Foundation (Davis, WV)
To improve cross-generational educational access, engagement, and identity for rural families in Tucker County, West Virginia through the facilitation of co-designed, sociocultural experiences
Date Awarded: 06/13/2023
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $67,000.00
Natural Capital Investment Fund, Inc. (Shepherdstown, WV)
To support loans to businesses for energy efficiency improvements and update of organizational strategic plan (over two years)
Date Awarded: 09/09/2013
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $186,000.00
Natural Capital Investment Fund, Inc. (Shepherdstown, WV)
To provide investment capital for business development in West Virginia’s underserved and distressed counties
Date Awarded: 12/09/2014
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $175,000.00
Natural Capital Investment Fund, Inc. (Shepherdstown, WV)
For development and implementation of redevelopment financing models for properties in downtown districts to promote economic development in small towns
Date Awarded: 06/09/2015
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $250,000.00
Natural Capital Investment Fund, Inc. (Shepherdstown, WV)
To: build and strengthen local food supply chains within and between rural and urban areas; develop a downtown building loan program; and develop a New Markets Tax Credit lending strategy
Date Awarded: 12/08/2015
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $150,000.00
Natural Capital Investment Fund, Inc. (Shepherdstown, WV)
For matching funds for a revolving loan fund to grow tourism enterprises serving visitors to the Hatfield-McCoy recreational trail system in nine counties of Southern West Virginia (over three years)
Date Awarded: 09/13/2016
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $184,000.00
Natural Capital Investment Fund, Inc. (Charles Town, WV)
To capitalize a revolving loan fund to finance catalytic commercial real estate projects and small businesses which support downtown revitalization of coal impacted communities (over three years)
Date Awarded: 03/12/2019
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $250,000.00
Natural Capital Investment Fund, Inc. (Charles Town, WV)
To advance economic opportunities for West Virginia forest farmers and associated industries using best practices that conserve wild populations of non-timber forest products and woodlands
Date Awarded: 10/09/2019
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $120,000.00
Natural Capital Investment Fund, Inc. (Charles Town, WV)
To facilitate small grants to emerging creative placemaking projects in communities throughout West Virginia
Date Awarded: 09/12/2019
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $40,000.00