Parkersburg Area Community Foundation Confirms More Than Four Hundred Thousand Dollars Awarded in Fall Grant Cycle

Parkersburg, West Virginia, December 11th, 2025.
A detailed report issued by THE PARKERSBURG AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION has provided the first complete verified account of its most recent fall grant cycle, documenting a wide distribution of charitable support across the Mid Ohio Valley. The Foundation’s own public release confirms that 50 projects received funding and that the combined award amount totaled 419,996 dollars, marking one of the largest fall distributions reported by the organization in recent years. This information is drawn solely from the Foundation’s official disclosure and represents the only first hand record presently available to the public.

The Foundation stated that it received 66 applications for consideration in the Fall Community Action Grant Program and that requested amounts for the cycle reached 763,366 dollars. According to the Foundation’s grant summary, 50 of those applications were approved. In its published explanation, the Foundation noted that the program supports a broad range of charitable work throughout the region. The awards include contributions from affiliated community foundations, namely 4,000 dollars from the Doddridge County Community Foundation, 5,000 dollars from the Ritchie County Community Foundation, and 5,700 dollars from the Little Kanawha Area Community Foundation. These affiliate awards were included within the total of 419,996 dollars.

In addition to the competitive grants, the Foundation’s disclosure also records that donor advised funds contributed 234,839 dollars to the cycle. The Foundation described these donor advised distributions as an important element of the overall grantmaking structure, further expanding the reach of the fall awards beyond the applications funded through the competitive review process.

The Foundation’s first hand report does not list the individual nonprofit recipients in the publicly accessible summary, nor does it release a detailed itemized accounting of each grant. It does, however, confirm the total number of funded projects and the full amount distributed. Under Appalachian Post standards, these figures represent the only verifiable facts that may be reported, and they stand as the authoritative totals for the fall cycle. While several regional news outlets have published secondary summaries stating that nearly four hundred twenty thousand dollars in grants were issued, only the Foundation’s own published information establishes final numbers suitable for first hand confirmation.

All information presented here is taken exclusively from documentation released by THE PARKERSBURG AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION; no secondary media reporting has been used for factual claims.

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Sources

Primary First-Hand Sources

• THE PARKERSBURG AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, “Fall Community Action Grant Program Report” — official public posting detailing total applications, total amount requested, total amount awarded, number of funded projects, donor–advised contributions, and affiliate foundation participation.

Secondary Attribution-Based Sources

(Reviewed only for comparison; NOT used for factual claims)

• The Marietta Times, local coverage referencing PACF’s fall grant cycle and summarizing total awards.
• The Parkersburg News and Sentinel, regional article describing the fall grant round and repeating PACF’s reported totals.
• WVNews, carrier of an Associated Press rewrite referencing PACF’s grant activity and providing a secondary account of award amounts.