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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North Elementary School (Morgantown, WV)
To renovate a garden area into an outdoor makerspace
Date Awarded: 11/06/2019
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00
Northern Panhandle Headstart, Inc. (Wheeling, WV)
For HealthyINFANTS, a community-university partnership model for Early Head Start in the Appalachian Region (over two years)
Date Awarded: 03/11/2013
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $172,000.00
Oglebay Foundation Inc. (Wheeling, WV)
For the Oglebay National Training Center to expand its professional development offerings for leaders in parks, recreation, and related fields (over two years)
Date Awarded: 03/12/2019
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $250,000.00
Oglebay Foundation Inc. (Wheeling, WV)
For expansion of the current development campaign for the Oglebay and Wheeling park system (over two years)
Date Awarded: 06/09/2015
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $150,000.00
Oglebay Foundation, Inc. (Wheeling, WV)
To modernize programs needed to position Oglebay and Wheeling Park for success in their second century of service to the community (over two years)
Date Awarded: 03/07/2023
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $220,000.00
Oglebay Institute (Wheeling, WV)
For the purchase of new glassblowing equipment
Date Awarded: 06/11/2024
Program Area: Arts
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $38,000.00
Oglebay Institute (Wheeling, WV)
For expansion of a cross-curricular program that teams resident artists with classroom teachers and engages students in public art projects (over two years)
Date Awarded: 11/06/2019
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $186,000.00
Oglebay Institute (Wheeling, WV)
For further expansion of the Rural Arts Collaborative’s Arts Education project into rural schools in the Northern Panhandle region
Date Awarded: 12/07/2021
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $150,000.00
Oglebay Institute (Wheeling, WV)
For a student-designed theater production that is integrated into language arts, math, and science coursework
Date Awarded: 12/13/2016
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $55,000.00
Oglebay Institute (Wheeling, WV)
For residencies by teaching artists in Northern Panhandle West Virginia schools (over two years)
Date Awarded: 03/14/2017
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $186,000.00
Oglebay Institute (Wheeling, WV)
For teaching artists residencies in northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio (over two and a half years)
Date Awarded: 12/11/2018
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $240,000.00
Ohio-West Virginia YMCA dba Ohio West Virginia Youth Leadership Association (Point Pleasant, WV)
To support a successful leadership and organizational transition for the Ohio West Virginia Youth Leadership Association, a statewide youth leadership development organization
Date Awarded: 03/11/2013
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $80,000.00
Oil, Gas and Industrial Historical Association (Parkersburg, WV)
To create a website and update informational signage across Henderson Hall’s property to better recount the history for a modern audience
Date Awarded: 06/11/2024
Program Area: Arts
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $25,000.00
Oil, Gas and Industrial Historical Association (Parkersburg, WV)
To develop full stories about the people behind the artifacts at the Oil and Gas Museum
Date Awarded: 06/11/2024
Program Area: Arts
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $25,000.00
One Voice, Inc. (Oceana, WV)
To build capacity and document the processes of the One Voice Recovery Community Organization as a social enterprise model to build community capital, and support individuals in recovery
Date Awarded: 12/07/2021
Program Area: Human Services
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $75,000.00
Our Jobs Our Children Our Future dba Huntington Area Development Council, Inc. (HADCO) (Huntington, WV)
To study the feasibility of developing a rail trail along an inactive rail line owned by Norfolk Southern that stretches from Kenova, West Virginia to Beech Fork State Park
Date Awarded: 06/13/2023
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $20,000.00
Pace School (Pittsburgh, PA)
To launch a center of professional development in partnership with the Carnegie Mellon University CREATE Lab and West Liberty University, to advance best practices in special education
Date Awarded: 03/14/2017
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $162,000.00
Pace School (Pittsburgh, PA)
For a collaborative professional development program with the Carnegie Mellon University CREATE Lab and Carlow University to promote the use of personalized learning, adaptive technologies, and environmental design in special education
Date Awarded: 06/12/2018
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $136,000.00
Parkersburg Area Community Foundation (Parkersburg, WV)
To expand the Civic Leaders Fellowship Initiative, a community leadership development program.
Date Awarded: 03/11/2013
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $52,000.00
Parkersburg Area Community Foundation (Parkersburg, WV)
To stimulate interest, develop skills, create networks, and identify pathways to local employment for college-age students
Date Awarded: 03/11/2014
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $105,000.00