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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RenewAll (Huntington, WV)
For RenewAll’s Cultural Wealth Hub project, which aims to create a new heritage and cultural tourism destination, contributing to local and regional economic diversification and neighborhood revitalization
Date Awarded: 03/19/2024
Program Area: Community and Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $75,000.00
RenewAll, Inc. (Huntington, WV)
For the Invest West Project to contribute to housing and neighborhood revitalization alongside the 14th Street West Cultural District Plan
Date Awarded: 12/06/2022
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $70,000.00
RIDC Fund for Economic Growth (Pittsburgh, PA)
For a study of the regional film and digital media infrastructure to serve as a blueprint for growth
Date Awarded: 12/09/2014
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $10,000.00
RiffRaff Arts Collective, Inc. (Princeton, WV)
For Create Your State to provide immersive, experiential learning tours, cultivate a peer-to-peer network, and offer mentorship and coaching
Date Awarded: 12/03/2024
Program Area: Community and Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
RiffRaff Arts Collective, Inc. (Princeton, WV)
To support the 25 communities in the Create Your State network to adopt creative, artistic, and cultural activities to help citizens deal with stress of COVID-19
Date Awarded: 12/08/2020
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $75,000.00
RiffRaff Arts Collective, Inc. (Princeton, WV)
For Create Your State to provide support to 25 communities, cultivate a statewide network, and introduce the “Create Your State” Docuseries, an episodic, documentary program that showcases WV towns and highlights strategies for community transformation
Date Awarded: 12/06/2022
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
River Valley Child Development Services (Huntington, WV)
To provide child care providers with a quality child development specialist training program based on the U.S. Department of Labor apprenticeship model
Date Awarded: 06/14/2016
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $60,000.00
Riverlife (Pittsburgh, PA)
To provide riverfront planning tools and financing options to Monongahela River towns
Date Awarded: 03/08/2016
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
Riverlife (Pittsburgh, PA)
To provide riverfront planning tools and technical assistance to river towns in southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia
Date Awarded: 03/14/2017
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $75,000.00
Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation (Homestead, PA)
To develop sustainable cultural/economic growth in the City of Monongahela and the Mid-Monongahela Valley (over three years)
Date Awarded: 03/08/2022
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $400,000.00
Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation (Homestead, PA)
For a new track of Mini-Grant funding opportunities focused on creative placemaking outcomes that can be mobilized quickly and effectively to help sustain program action plans developed by the Creative Leadership Communities
Date Awarded: 12/09/2025
Program Area: Community and Economic Development
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation (Homestead, PA)
To expand the Mon Valley Creative Corridor, an economic development initiative based on artist entrepreneurship and cultural tourism (over two years)
Date Awarded: 10/09/2019
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $300,000.00
Rivers to Ridges Heritage Trail, Inc. (Scott Depot, WV)
To build recreational opportunities which increase tourism, improve communities, and encourage business development around the Lower Kanawha River Outdoor Recreation Trail
Date Awarded: 12/07/2021
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $32,000.00
Rivers to Ridges Heritage Trail, Inc. (Scott Depot, WV)
To promote regional economic development through bicycle-focused tourism in a three-county region of West Virginia through expansion of wayfinding signage and facilitation of biking trail events
Date Awarded: 09/10/2024
Program Area: Community and Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $60,000.00
Rivers to Ridges Heritage Trail, Inc. (Scott Depot, WV)
To advance scenic byway – related community and economic development strategies
Date Awarded: 03/13/2018
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00
Rivers to Ridges Heritage Trail, Inc. (Hurricane, WV)
To expand outdoor education along the Rivers to Ridges Heritage Trail in order to boost community engagement and regional tourism in southwestern West Virginia
Date Awarded: 12/09/2025
Program Area: Community and Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $31,000.00
Roane County Economic Development Authority (Spencer, WV)
To hire subject matter experts to analyze the potential of a $17 million broadband grant for a nine-county rural area of West Virginia
Date Awarded: 06/13/2023
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $15,255.00
Robert Morris University (Moon Township, PA)
To launch early college programs in manufacturing engineering and microbiology in a pilot group of West Virginia and Pennsylvania high schools (over two years)
Date Awarded: 10/09/2019
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $250,000.00
Robert Morris University (Moon Township, PA)
To develop and test a cloud computing course of study for high school students
Date Awarded: 06/08/2021
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $120,000.00
Rural Action Inc (The Plains, OH)
To support the 2017 Appalachian Conference on Social Enterprise in Huntington, West Virginia
Date Awarded: 03/14/2017
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $15,000.00