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The Pittsburgh-based Benedum Foundation last year awarded 100 grants totaling more than $12.6 million in West Virginia.See the full content of this document
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Benedum Gives $12.6 Million to 100 W.Va. Groups
The foundation gives roughly two-thirds of its grant money annually to West Virginia, where the late oil wildcatter Michael Benedum was born and got his start buying oil leases from rural landowners. The other third goes to Benedum's adoptive city of Pittsburgh and to nearby areas of southwestern Pennsylvania.
Since its inception in 1944, the foundation has given $219 million - $50 million of that in the last four years - in philanthropic grants to West Virginia organizations.The foundation works best as a partner with local groups, which come up with the projects and come to Benedum with proposals, Pat Getty, Benedum president, has said."We try to ask hard questions," said Beverly Railey Robinson, the vice president in charge of West Virginia programs. "We ask for data, for specific outcomes and we ask people to measure what they do."The foundation is apolitical, Robinson said. "We monitor quite closely, but we don't lobby. We don't care who the polit...See the full content of this document
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