· Private foundation
W E Stone Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON | $15,000 |
| WV INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | $15,000 |
| EXPERIENCE LEARNING | $10,000 |
| OGLEBAY INSTITUTE | $8,000 |
| OGLEBAY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| LINSLY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ARTS AMPLIFIED | $5,000 |
| WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER | $3,500 |
| ORCHARD PARK HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS | $2,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
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 -19% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +13%
- OFOGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +284%
- OIOGLEBAY INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- WCWVICU CIRCLE OF VISIONone grant, 2017 · $15k
- TLTHE LIFE HUB WVone grant, 2024 · $6k
- WJWHEELING JESUIT UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -19%
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.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Wheeler is an independent, college preparatory day school serving students nursery through grade 12 whose mission is derived from the ideal of its founder, mary c wheeler, "to learn our powers and be answerable for their use."
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
West virginia wesleyan college challenges its students to a life-long commitment to develop their intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and leadership potential and to set and uphold standards of excellence. firmly rooted in the liberal arts…
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds WHEELING JESUIT UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Mountain Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds GROW OHIO VALLEY 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization W E Stone Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W E Stone Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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