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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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| LINSLY SCHOOL | $11,500 |
| MERCERSBURG ACADEMY | $9,000 |
| FORT HENRY CHAPTER NSSAR | $5,700 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY | $5,000 |
| DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WHEELING CHAPTER | $5,000 |
| OGLEBAY INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| YWCA | $5,000 |
| WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY | $3,000 |
| OGLEBAY INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| ELMHURST HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP | $3,000 |
| WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| THE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in WV; by stated purpose, 84%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OFOGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +284%
- WSWHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $147k · revenue +50%
- OIOGLEBAY INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- WAWHEELING ARTS & CULTURAL COMMone grant, 2017 · $3k
- FHFORT HENRY LIVING HISTORY INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The exempt purpose is to support the quality of life and activity in the wheeling national heritage area through beautification projects as well as by acquiring and preserving historically significant structures.
To provide charitable, free medical care and pharmaceuticals to residents who fall below federal poverty guidelines and live in ohio, marshall, wetzel and southern brooke counties in west virginia and belmont county in ohio.
Administer and maintain mt zion cemetery as a place of internment or burial in ohio county, wv as well as to promote and protect its historic character and educational value.
The mission of ohio valley goodwill industries rehabilitation center, inc. is to provide vocational rehabilitation, training, and employment services to individuals with either disabilities or social and economic barriers to full employment
To provide family and individual charitable services.
To engage the public in experiencing and learning about southeastern ohios history and culture by supporting programs, publications, and tours in the region.
The organization's mission is to provide guidance and resources to disabled individuals with a focus on educational attainment, employment procurement, health and wellness, community integration, recreation, housing acquisition, and…
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
United way of wilkes county is dedicated to improving the lives of our citizens by underwriting identified programs that enhance their well-being through our 21 partner agencies. the united way of wilkes county annually impacts over 32,000…
Winding trails, inc. is a non-profit organization serving people from farmington and surrounding communities, providing year round recreational and educational activities for the enjoyment and growth of families and individuals of all…
As a subordinate/chapter organization of the vermont mountain bike association (ein 03-0356194), the organization operates under the primary mission of its central organization, that being
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LAUGHLIN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ELMHURST HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION CAREGIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEEING HAND ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds GROW OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMANCE EDGE INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
How this is measured
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