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 University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To develop a platform for screening and treatment of glaucoma in high-risk individuals
Date Awarded: 09/12/2017
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $110,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To establish a partnership to provide health data analytics expertise, program evaluation, project management, and technical support to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (over two years)
Date Awarded: 03/13/2018
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $280,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To enhance vision health through a comprehensive system of diagnosis and connection of patients to treatment
Date Awarded: 09/11/2018
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To develop local, state and federal funding and policy strategies which will accelerate demolition or rehabilitation of vacant and abandoned properties in communities throughout West Virginia
Date Awarded: 06/12/2018
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $130,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For support of the Brownfield, Abandoned and Dilapidated (BAD) buildings redevelopment program within sixteen communities
Date Awarded: 09/09/2014
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $135,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For technical assistance and mini-grants to catalyze revitalization of brownfield sites (over two years)
Date Awarded: 12/11/2018
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $180,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For the Appalachian Vision Outreach Program partnership to provide needed vision screenings to optimize vision health
Date Awarded: 03/09/2021
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For a cohort-based project that enables kindergarten and first grade teachers to acquire Literacy Education Master’s degrees and Reading Specialist certifications
Date Awarded: 03/09/2021
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $121,500.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To support the costs of identification, preparation, and submission of high-quality funding proposals for priority projects and to measure performance indicators for the Mon Forest Towns Initiative (over two years)
Date Awarded: 03/09/2021
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $210,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To support a set of demonstration projects designed to improve reading levels of high-risk young children
Date Awarded: 06/08/2021
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $400,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To support advancing community led projects in collaboration with university faculty and student teams through experiential learning activities
Date Awarded: 09/14/2021
Program Area: Community Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $151,150.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For a student-centered rural business incubator
Date Awarded: 12/07/2021
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $155,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For continuation of a multi-phase project that will identify, support, and fund early literacy project proposals designed to improve reading levels of young children across West Virginia
Date Awarded: 12/07/2021
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $400,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To host a West Virginia legislators forum on education
Date Awarded: 06/14/2016
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For mapping and connecting major research strengths of West Virginia, Southwestern Pennsylvania & eastern Ohio universities and private facilities to attract new sponsors and drive regional economic development in natural gas utilization and manufacturing
Date Awarded: 04/08/2016
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For a collaborative program to develop and implement financing strategies for 16 brownfield redevelopment projects (over two years)
Date Awarded: 06/10/2014
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $174,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
For the second annual Focus Forward Summit which will address the impact of data analytics on education and the economy
Date Awarded: 05/15/2019
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $15,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To analyze how the Opportunity Zone program can be utilized in West Virginia and to support the development of eligible economic development projects which can attract tax incentive-based investment
Date Awarded: 10/09/2019
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To evaluate the dependent care system in pilot counties to inform policy solutions and innovative dependent care business models
Date Awarded: 11/06/2019
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $60,500.00
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc. (Morgantown, WV)
To assist communities in writing successful applications for funding to remove vacant and dilapidated structures
Date Awarded: 03/08/2016
Program Area: Health
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00