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Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EmploymentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$112k24%
FY202314$120k0%
FY202218$139k6%
FY202118$117k11%
FY202017$110k18%
FY201916$109k0%
FY201816$117k19%
FY201719$106kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$353kRecreation & Sports$183kEducation$125kFood & Nutrition$84kHuman Services$67kPhilanthropy$53kReligion$52kHealth$34kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees
All grantees of Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oglebay Foundation Inc$183,00081%
Wheeling Symphony Society Inc$147,00082%
Oglebay Institute$89,50081%
Wheeling Country Day School$65,00081%
The Linsly School Incorporated$56,40080%
Laughlin Community Center$45,50065%
The House of the Carpenter Inc$43,00082%
Elmhurst House of Friendship Inc$32,86980%
Friends of Wheeling Inc$25,00057%
Faith in Action Caregivers Inc$24,50083%
Christopher Reeve Foundation$19,00030%
Seeing Hand Association Inc$15,00072%
United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc$14,00031%
Wheeling National Heritage Area Corporation$11,50030%
The Soup Kitchen of Greater Wheeling Inc$7,50040%
St James Evangelical Lutheran Church$5,0004n/a
Grow Ohio Valley Inc$4,00021%
Appalachian Outreach Inc$2,10021%
Fort Henry Living History Inc$2,0001n/a
Performance Edge Inc$1,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($136k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOglebay Foundation Inc: $183,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetWheeling Symphony Society Inc: $147,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetOglebay Institute: $89,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetWheeling Country Day School: $65,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetThe Linsly School Incorporated: $56,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLaughlin Community Center: $45,500 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetThe House of the Carpenter Inc: $43,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetElmhurst House of Friendship Inc: $32,869 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Wheeling Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetFaith in Action Caregivers Inc: $24,500 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetChristopher Reeve Foundation: $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSeeing Hand Association Inc: $15,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetUnited Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWheeling National Heritage Area Corporation: $11,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Soup Kitchen of Greater Wheeling Inc: $7,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGrow Ohio Valley Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAppalachian Outreach Inc: $2,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPerformance Edge Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hess Family FoundationWV32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hess Family Foundation · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation · The Banford & Terri Exley Family Foundation Inc · Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund · Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · Eqt Foundation · W E Stone Foundation · James B Chambers Memorial · Chris Hess Foundation · The Driehorst Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation

How much does Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation give?
Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $120,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Recreation & Sports (19%), Education (13%).
Who are Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oglebay Foundation Inc ($183k), Wheeling Symphony Society Inc ($147k), Oglebay Institute ($90k).
Does Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hess Family Foundation, Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust, Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc.
Where is Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation based?
Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation is based in WV.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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