West Virginia · Private foundation
The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation
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.
- $408k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 40
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $398k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $395k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $338k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camc Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The University of Charleston Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Library Foundation of Kanawha County Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Beverly Farm Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| West Virginia Health Right Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Coda Mountain Academy Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Mountaineer Food Bank Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of Wv Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women's Health Center of West Virginia Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Salvation Army | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($256k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Tgkvf Inc · Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation · Charles & Mary Fayne Glotfelty Foundation Inc · Herscher Foundation Inc · The Daywood Foundationinc · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · HB Wehrle Foundation Stephen D Wehrle TTEE
How this is measured
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About The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation
- How much does The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation give?
- The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $407,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 40 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (19%), Education (17%), Human Services (3%).
- Who are The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Camc Foundation Inc ($300k), The University of Charleston Inc ($150k), Library Foundation of Kanawha County Inc ($100k).
- Does The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial 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 The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, Encova Foundation of West Virginia, Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation based?
- The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation is based in WV.
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