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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West Virginia Oral Health Coalition, Inc. (Charleston, WV)
To expand the West Virginia Oral Health Coalition’s work in promoting lifelong oral health by shaping policy, promoting prevention, and educating the public
Date Awarded: 12/08/2020
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $90,000.00
West Virginia Oral Health Coalition, Inc. (Bridgeport, WV)
To produce a meaningful dentist study, provide mini-grant opportunities, and ready the dental workforce to address the vaping crisis and public health emergencies
Date Awarded: 12/05/2023
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $150,000.00
West Virginia Primary Care Association Inc (Charleston, WV)
To recruit health care providers and increase access to primary care services (over two years)
Date Awarded: 03/10/2015
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $120,000.00
West Virginia Primary Care Association, Inc. (Charleston, WV)
To assist Community Health Centers, West Virginia’s largest network of safety net providers, in their COVID-19 response
Date Awarded: 04/24/2020
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $200,000.00
West Virginia Public Broadcasting (Charleston, WV)
For Appalachia Health News to support a program series on health in the region
Date Awarded: 06/09/2015
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $77,250.00
West Virginia Public Broadcasting Foundation, Inc. (Charleston, WV)
For creation of five in-depth profiles of Appalachian innovators to be communicated to the public via multiple media forms, and directly to educators
Date Awarded: 03/14/2017
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00
West Virginia Public Broadcasting Foundation, Inc. (Charleston, WV)
To enable West Virginia Public Broadcasting to strengthen its organizational capacities to improve financial sustainability
Date Awarded: 06/13/2017
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $128,000.00
West Virginia Public Broadcasting Foundation, Inc. (Charleston, WV)
For general operating support of Mountain Stage for the 2022-2023 season
Date Awarded: 12/06/2022
Program Area: Arts
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $55,000.00
West Virginia Public Broadcasting Foundation, Inc. (Charleston, WV)
For the Us & Them podcast and radio show that focuses on the fault lines that divide Americans; with a focus on divisive rural issues (over two years)
Date Awarded: 09/12/2019
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $180,000.00
West Virginia Rural Health Association (Barboursvillle, WV)
For workforce development programs focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion; mental health; suicide prevention; and continuing education for various healthcare disciplines
Date Awarded: 09/14/2021
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $125,000.00
West Virginia Rural Health Association (Shady Spring, WV)
To support health improvement for rural people through education, professional learning opportunities, and organizational workforce planning (over two years)
Date Awarded: 06/12/2018
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $200,000.00
West Virginia Rural Health Association (Shady Spring, WV)
To strengthen the organization’s ability to serve its members (over two years)
Date Awarded: 06/14/2016
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $155,000.00
West Virginia Rural Health Association (Barboursville, WV)
For the development of an annual conference, a rural health mini-grant program, and the creation of the West Virginia Rural Health Fellowship Program (over two years)
Date Awarded: 09/13/2022
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $200,000.00
West Virginia Rural Health Association (Shady Spring, WV)
To increase the capacity and usefulness of the West Virginia Health Data Portal to provide health workforce data (over two years)
Date Awarded: 06/10/2014
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $200,000.00
West Virginia Rural Health Association (Shady Spring, WV)
For the development of a webpage for COVID-19 information and resources for West Virginians, and to create a statewide Hepatitis academic monitoring program
Date Awarded: 06/08/2020
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
West Virginia State University Foundation, Inc. (Institute, WV)
To assist grandparents and grandchildren with needs identified during COVID-19 including technology needs, bill and grocery assistance
Date Awarded: 06/08/2020
Program Area: Human Services
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $25,000.00
West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Charleston, WV)
For general operating support of the 2022-2023 season
Date Awarded: 12/06/2022
Program Area: Arts
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $45,000.00
West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Charleston, WV)
For an arts integration project that uses musical theater to teach reading, math, social studies, and visual art
Date Awarded: 06/10/2013
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For a student intellectual property patent services pilot project, to support provisional patent applications by the WVU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Law Clinic in support of student innovations
Date Awarded: 03/11/2013
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $80,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To promote economic development on remediated sites through continued development of the West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation
Date Awarded: 12/09/2014
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $75,000.00