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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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
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
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)
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
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
Parkersburg Area Community Foundation (Parkersburg, WV)
To support the 2016-2017 civic leaders fellowship program to connect college-age participants to career and civic engagement opportunities in 16 West Virginia counties
Date Awarded: 06/14/2016
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $120,000.00
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
Parkersburg Area Community Foundation (Parkersburg, WV)
To connect participants to career and community service opportunities in 16 West Virginia counties
Date Awarded: 03/10/2015
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $89,000.00
Parkersburg Area Community Foundation (Parkersburg, WV)
To develop Lewis County Community Foundation Fund as an affiliate of the Parkersburg Area Community Foundation
Date Awarded: 09/14/2021
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $90,000.00
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
Partner Community Capital (Charles Town, WV)
For the West Virginia Women’s Business Center Rural Growth Initiative 55×24 whose mission is to aid the state’s socially and economically disadvantaged populations
Date Awarded: 03/07/2023
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00
Partner Community Capital, Inc. (Charles Town, WV)
To support tourism and recreation-related business, real estate, organizational, and workforce development activities across West Virginia, to develop a more diversified and resilient economy
Date Awarded: 09/13/2022
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $150,000.00
Partner Community Capital, Inc. (Charles Town, WV)
For support of non-federal matching funds for an ARC POWER Planning Grant and the Small Business Administration’s Women’s Business Center Programs (over 18 months)
Date Awarded: 06/08/2021
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $150,000.00
Partner Community Capital, Inc. (Charles Town, WV)
For the Solar Finance Fund which will support projects across Central Appalachia with a goal of advancing solar sector development and the transition to a new energy economy in the region (over three years)
Date Awarded: 08/03/2021
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $150,000.00
Partners in Health Network, Inc. (Charleston, WV)
To expand the CATCH My Breath vaping prevention program to an additional six West Virginia counties, 12 schools, and 4,000 students with the goal of preventing first use of nicotine (over two years)
Date Awarded: 06/13/2023
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $155,000.00
Partnership of African American Churches (Charleston, WV)
To enable PAAC to become a statewide intermediary organization; and to work with the African American Faith Community to respond to the drug crisis
Date Awarded: 03/12/2019
Program Area: Human Services
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $130,000.00
Partnership of African American Churches (Charleston, WV)
To provide peer-based substance abuse and mental health services statewide and to create recovery housing on the West Side of Charleston
Date Awarded: 06/10/2014
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
Partnership of African American Churches (Charleston, WV)
To assist people in recovery from substance abuse and mental health issues to transition into a healthy community environment
Date Awarded: 09/15/2015
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00