Delaware · Private foundation
Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 84
- Grants FY2025
- 71
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,999
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $167,810
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 78
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $54M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $686k 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 | 69 | $2.5M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 71 | $2.3M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $2.3M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 78 | $2.9M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 62 | $2.1M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $2.0M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $1.6M | 41% |
| FY2018 | 48 | $1.3M | 54% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan County Partnership Inc | $1,585,483 | 7 | 58% |
| Blue Ridge Community & Technical College Foundation Inc | $1,351,688 | 8 | 74% |
| United Way of the Eastern Panhandle | $1,295,000 | 7 | 30% |
| Berkeley County Schools | $1,246,024 | 8 | n/a |
| Philanthropy West Virginia Inc | $921,800 | 8 | 40% |
| Stars That Shine | $591,283 | 5 | 94% |
| West Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness Inc | $497,350 | 4 | 6% |
| The Children's Home Society of West Virginia Inc | $406,250 | 4 | 1% |
| Leary Educational Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Martinsburg Rock School | $376,500 | 6 | 87% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 137 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 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: Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation · United Way of the Eastern Panhandle · Rotary Club of Charles Town Charitable Foundation · Bowles Rice Foundation · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · West Virginia University Hospitals - East Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Highmark Foundation · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · First United Community Dreams Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc with peer funders
About Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc
- How much does Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc give?
- Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc reported 84 grants totaling $2,545,845 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 78 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Philanthropy (17%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Morgan County Partnership Inc ($1.6M), Blue Ridge Community & Technical College Foundation Inc ($1.4M), United Way of the Eastern Panhandle ($1.3M).
- Does Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc 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 Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation, United Way of the Eastern Panhandle, Rotary Club of Charles Town Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc based?
- Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc is based in DE.
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