Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Charleston, West Virginia

41
foundations with a Charleston address
$31M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
22
say they accept unsolicited
$5,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 41 foundations that gave a Charleston, West Virginia address on their tax filing — 38 private foundations and 3 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $31 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 22 of them (54%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Charleston foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 41 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Charleston, West Virginia
Maier Foundation IncAccepts$35,000$2.5M$5,000–$500,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Encova Foundation of West VirginiaAccepts$5,000$2.3M$500–$450,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Elliot Foundation IncAccepts$10,000$2.1M$100–$1.7MNo grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Daywood FoundationincAccepts$10,750$847,272$650–$70,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Liz and Louis Weisberg Family FoundationAccepts$10,000$587,270$500–$152,500No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson FoundationAccepts$15,000$410,000$3,000–$75,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Charles & Mary FayneAccepts$10,000$308,238$500–$35,500No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Berkeley Minor and Susan Fountaine Minor FoundationAccepts$108,500$217,000$100,000–$130,500No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Helen W Poffenbarger and Perry SAccepts$10,000$175,000$4,000–$40,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Herscher Foundation IncAccepts$5,000$160,250$500–$15,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ioof Grand Lodge EducationalAccepts$138,000$144,000$132,000–$144,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Dr Om & Ruth A Harper FamilyAccepts$37,500$100,000$25,000–$75,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Charleston Retail Credit AssociatioAccepts$3,750$79,000$500–$10,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Albert J Humphreys Memorial CorpAccepts$4,900$66,375$500–$27,500No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
As Thomas Memorial FundAccepts$2,000$63,000$300–$7,500No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Lafon Family Foundation IncAccepts$5,000$54,000$1,000–$40,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Haddad Foundation IncAccepts$4,151$41,901$500–$21,873No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
West Virginia BroadcastersAccepts$2,900$38,406$1,000–$10,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Bernice Pickens Parsons FoundationAccepts$1,000$31,292$200–$5,500Within 5% over 3 yearsFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Willy Foundation IncAccepts$2,000$13,500$500–$3,411No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Emerich Scholarship CharitableAccepts$1,750$13,000$1,000–$2,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Five Promises for ChildrenAccepts$1,000$1,000—No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationCommunity foundationNot stated$30,000Over $5k only$16M$5,075–$828,533No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
United Way of Central West VirginiaFederationNot stated$17,000Over $5k only$698,300$5,600–$697,919No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Library Foundation of Kanawha County IncGrantmaking charityNot stated$127,204Over $5k only$199,697$54,710–$199,697No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • 3-yr trend compares the latest filing year with the year two before it, so it needs grants on file for both. Most foundations file one year of grants, so most rows show a dash.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.