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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Montgomery General Healthcare System (Montgomery, WV)
For the opening of a Pulmonary Center, seeking to be a part of a Grace Anne Dorney Koppel Pulmonary Network for communication, best practices, and training, within Montgomery General Hospital
Date Awarded: 09/10/2024
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
Montour Trail Council (Pittsburgh, PA)
To craft the Montour Trail Council’s 2025-2027 Strategic Plan and develop a long-term vision of what the Montour Trail Council will have achieved by 2050
Date Awarded: 06/11/2024
Program Area: Community and Economic Development
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $20,000.00
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 Association (Mountain Association for Community Economic Development, Inc.) (Berea, KY)
For the 2024 Central Appalachian Network Peer to Peer Convening
Date Awarded: 04/03/2024
Program Area: Community and Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $5,000.00
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
Mountaineer Food Bank, Inc. (Gassaway, WV)
To support efforts to increase donation sources and partner agency distribution
Date Awarded: 06/10/2014
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $150,000.00
Mountaineer Food Bank, Inc. (Gassaway, WV)
To address food insecurity in central and southern West Virginia through community empowerment, strengthened feeding programs, and healthier eating initiatives
Date Awarded: 12/05/2023
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $150,000.00
Mountaineer Food Bank, Inc. (Gassaway, WV)
To provide emergency food relief due to COVID-19
Date Awarded: 06/08/2020
Program Area: Human Services
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
Mountaineer Food Bank, Inc. (Gassaway, WV)
For a more resilient and efficient food supply chain model in West Virginia (over two years)
Date Awarded: 12/07/2021
Program Area: Human Services
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $200,000.00
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
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
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
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 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
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
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