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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Marshall University Research Corporation (Huntington, WV)
As matching funds for federal POWER grant, to provide technical assistance to businesses in 20 southern West Virginia counties to foster job creation and retention, and increased access to supply chains and customers (over three years)
Date Awarded: 12/13/2016
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $430,000.00
Marshall University Research Corporation (Huntington, WV)
To strengthen the perinatal oral health network, develop aging population dental services, and support school-based dental services
Date Awarded: 03/14/2017
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $250,000.00
Marshall University Research Corporation (Huntington, WV)
To promote an adolescent healthy lifestyles self-management program through West Virginia school based health centers
Date Awarded: 03/11/2013
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $175,000.00
Marvel Center, Inc. (Meadow River Valley Early Childhood Learning Center) (Rupert, WV)
To lead a systematic approach to implement Greenbrier County’s only Early Head Start program while stabilizing a quality Marvel workforce and Meadow River Valley Central Kitchen
Date Awarded: 12/07/2021
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $75,000.00
McDowell County Commission On Aging, Inc. (Welch, WV)
To reduce the rate of tobacco use among African Americans in West Virginia by building the capacity of the West Virginia African American Tobacco Prevention Network
Date Awarded: 06/13/2023
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $110,000.00
McGuffey School District (Claysville, PA)
For development of science and career education curricula using school-based aquaponics labs
Date Awarded: 12/13/2016
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $40,000.00
Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department (Parkersburg, WV)
For expansion of a program to provide dental services to low-income residents in the region (over two years)
Date Awarded: 03/14/2017
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $80,000.00
Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department (Parkersburg, WV)
For the Mid-Ohio Valley Smiles for Life program, an adult dental screening and referral program partnering with volunteer dentists to increase access and improve oral health
Date Awarded: 03/11/2013
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department (Parkersburg, WV)
To expand the integration of oral health programs into community-based health systems
Date Awarded: 12/09/2014
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $80,000.00
Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Council (Parkersburg, WV)
To match federal funds which facilitate small business lending
Date Awarded: 03/10/2020
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $187,500.00
Mid-Ohio Valley Rural Health Alliance (Parkersburg, WV)
For assistance in supporting a mobility management program that will coordinate transportation services within the region through a single access point (over two years)
Date Awarded: 06/14/2022
Program Area: Human Services
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $101,800.00
Mid-Ohio Valley Rural Health Alliance (Parkersburg, WV)
To conduct a regional capacity assessment of the existing care system for seniors
Date Awarded: 06/10/2013
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $28,000.00
Minnie Hamilton Health System (Grantsville, WV)
For regional healthcare providers to use community health workers to provide care coordination to improve health outcomes for diabetic patients and those at high risk of the disease (over three years)
Date Awarded: 09/15/2015
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $240,000.00
Monongalia Health System, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To utilize smartphone technology and 3D printing to help patients create custom, functioning, durable, and affordable nylon finger prosthetics
Date Awarded: 03/07/2023
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
Mountain Association (Mountain Association for Community Economic Development, Inc.) (Berea, KY)
To support the Appalachia Funders Network in connecting and convening funders for COVID-19 responses, learning, analysis, and collaboration; increasing investments in the region; and supporting sector-focused groups
Date Awarded: 12/08/2020
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $65,000.00
Mountain State Educational Services Cooperative (Dunbar, WV)
To foster district-wide educational redesign that prepares students to become drivers in the West Virginia economy
Date Awarded: 12/07/2021
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
Mountain State Educational Services Cooperative (Dunbar, WV)
For continued support and expansion of the Empowerment Collaborative, a district-wide educational redesign process that aligns classrooms to workplace environments and develops students’ entrepreneurial knowledge
Date Awarded: 09/13/2022
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $75,000.00
Mountain State Educational Services Cooperative (Dunbar, WV)
For the Empowerment Collaborative, which guides schools in aligning classrooms to workplace environments to provide students with real world, problem-solving opportunities that support the development of entrepreneurial mindsets
Date Awarded: 09/12/2023
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $75,000.00
Mountain State Spotlight, Inc. (Charleston, WV)
For Mountain State Spotlight online news outlet to: engage with communities, enhance local journalism, and access to information, to increase the ability of West Virginians to collaborate for positive change
Date Awarded: 06/08/2021
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $90,000.00
Mountaineer Food Bank, Inc. (Gassaway, WV)
To provide special dietary food boxes to patients of free health clinics and Veterans Administration hospitals as prescribed by physicians
Date Awarded: 12/12/2017
Program Area: Human Services
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $123,375.00