West Virginia · Nonprofit
OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC
OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,573,003 to it, the largest being CHRIS HESS FOUNDATION ($1,600,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Oglebay Foundation Inc does
Mission
The oglebay foundation is devoted to raising private funds for the welfare, maintenance and future development of oglebay and wheeling parks in wheeling, wv and their affiliated organizations and programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Promote the development, maintenance and improvement of oglebay and wheeling parks in ohio county, wv for the benefit and social welfare of the citizens of ohio county.
$8,089,676 spentof which $7,509,852 as grants$144,589 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,089,676.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $19M to $30M (+58%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2022 6% · 2023 29% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $266k → $2.2M.
10 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $755k from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 32% · 2019 33% · 2020 18% · 2021 19% · 2022 14% · 2023 22% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
74% of OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
84% of OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 184 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 184 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Park System Trust Fund · exempt
- Wheeling Park Commission · exempt
- Oglebay Foundation Properties Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC?
- OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,573,003 to it, the largest being CHRIS HESS FOUNDATION ($1,600,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $12,573,003 in grants to OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC?
- CHRIS HESS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 59 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing