West Virginia · Private foundation
W E Stone Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $82k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $834k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations W E Stone Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 13 | $82k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $80k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $68k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $87k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $85k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $72k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $63k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $67k | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Charleston Inc | $65,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Oglebay Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Oglebay Institute | $57,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wheeling Country Day School | $56,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Experience Learning Inc | $55,500 | 8 | 2% |
| United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc | $42,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Wheeling Symphony Society Inc | $40,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Linsly School Incorporated | $37,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Bethany College | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The House of the Carpenter Inc | $10,500 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Charleston Inc | $65,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Oglebay Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Oglebay Institute | $57,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wheeling Country Day School | $56,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Experience Learning Inc | $55,500 | 8 | 2% |
| United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc | $42,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Wheeling Symphony Society Inc | $40,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Linsly School Incorporated | $37,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Bethany College | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The House of the Carpenter Inc | $10,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Arts Amplified Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Youth Services System Inc | $8,500 | 3 | 0% |
| NAMI National | $6,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Wheeling Jesuit University Inc | $5,200 | 1 | 0% |
| The Mountain Institute Inc | $4,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Grow Ohio Valley Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($195k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget W E Stone 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 Driehorst Family Foundation · Hess Family Foundation · Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation · Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Eqt Foundation · Helen J Prince Foundation Security National Trust Co Trustee · Stamp Charitable Fund · James B Chambers Memorial
How this is measured
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About W E Stone Foundation
- How much does W E Stone Foundation give?
- W E Stone Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $82,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does W E Stone Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Arts & Culture (21%), Recreation & Sports (17%).
- Who are W E Stone Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The University of Charleston Inc ($65k), Oglebay Foundation Inc ($60k), Oglebay Institute ($57k).
- Does W E Stone Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does W E Stone Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as W E Stone Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Driehorst Family Foundation, Hess Family Foundation, Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation.
- Where is W E Stone Foundation based?
- W E Stone Foundation is based in WV.
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