West Virginia · Private foundation
Hess Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $493k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $22,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Hess Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $446k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $413k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $415k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $326k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $374k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $312k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $313k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $275k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oglebay Foundation Inc | $296,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Grow Ohio Valley Inc | $292,000 | 8 | 13% |
| Wheeling National Heritage Area Corporation | $266,600 | 9 | 6% |
| Youth Services System Inc | $215,671 | 9 | 0% |
| Oglebay Institute | $150,007 | 8 | 2% |
| Friends of Wheeling Inc | $138,223 | 6 | 36% |
| Catholic Charities West Virginia Inc | $135,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Wheeling Wv | $132,400 | 5 | 2% |
| Wheeling Country Day School | $130,600 | 6 | 2% |
| Life Hub Inc | $125,000 | 3 | 9% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($817k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hess Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation · Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · James B Chambers Memorial · Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund · United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc · Eqt Foundation · W E Stone Foundation · Vna Home Support Services Inc · Francis J and Edith Jackson Founda Security National Trust Company
How this is measured
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About Hess Family Foundation
- How much does Hess Family Foundation give?
- Hess Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $493,405 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hess Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Education (16%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Hess Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oglebay Foundation Inc ($296k), Grow Ohio Valley Inc ($292k), Wheeling National Heritage Area Corporation ($267k).
- Does Hess Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hess Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hess Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc, Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation, Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust.
- Where is Hess Family Foundation based?
- Hess Family Foundation is based in WV.
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