Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Wheeling, West Virginia

100
foundations with a Wheeling address
$18M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
49
say they accept unsolicited
$8,119
median grant

Grantlas lists 100 foundations that gave a Wheeling, West Virginia address on their tax filing — 97 private foundations and 3 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $18 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 49 of them (49%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Wheeling 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 100 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 24 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Wheeling, West Virginia
Ann Sonneborn Charitable Foundation$25,000$1.8M$5,000–$400,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation$20,000$1.4M$2,000–$491,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
George A Laughlin Trust$2,775$1.4M$12–$205,676FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Chris Hess Foundation$10,000$582,000$1,000–$220,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
James B Chambers Memorial$22,500$574,609$250–$166,667FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Hess Family Foundation$15,000$493,405$1,750–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Helen J Prince Foundation$21,250$470,688$4,924–$177,500FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Fitzsimmons Foundation$2,000$443,000$100–$310,600FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation$25,000$410,000$2,500–$100,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H$10,000$396,000$400–$80,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust$5,000$368,000$4,000–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Harry E and Olive Barth Charitable Trust$10,000$347,108$4,959–$222,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Paisley Foundation Inc$1,055$327,125$100–$300,025FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Paul W Blake and Virginia Blake Mem$20,000$282,345$10,000–$37,345FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Robinson S Parlin Trust$16,000$268,650$7,500–$84,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Driehorst Family Foundation$10,000$258,000$5,000–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Francis J and Edith Jackson Founda$7,000$250,200$1,000–$20,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund$4,500$229,500$1,000–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Karl and Mildred Niekamp Charitable Foundation$7,500$175,000$5,000–$51,500FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Phyllis A Beneke Scholarship Fund$4,000$173,000$1,000–$7,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Jeremy C McCamic Family Foundation Inc$20,000$167,500$5,000–$30,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust$5,000$148,700$1,200–$120,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
George E Stifel Scholarship Fund$5,000$124,000$1,000–$11,250FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Kinkaid Family Charitable Foundation$10,000$116,000$1,000–$30,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Knapp Family Foundation$5,000$104,000$2,000–$20,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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