Opportunity Overview
Open Ravenswood, West Virginia health-focused funding opportunity. The Fund for Ravenswood, a charitable fund of the Parkersburg Area Community Foundation (PACF), is accepting applications for its Fall 2026 competitive grant cycle. Atlas is publishing only the directly documented healthcare-relevant lanes within this broader community grant program. The Fund follows PACF’s Community Action Grant guidelines, which expressly include Health and Wellness, Mental Health, Substance Use Disorders, Disability Services, Seniors, and health-related Emergency Response and Public Safety, with funding structures that can include capital/equipment, program development, capacity building, and operating support.
Distinct Fund and Eligibility
The Fund for Ravenswood is a distinct PACF grant program with Ravenswood-specific eligibility. Applicants must be private nonprofit organizations tax-exempt under IRC section 501(c)(3) or public institutions and must be located in Ravenswood or directly benefit Ravenswood residents. Unlike the general Community Action Grant 12-month award restriction, organizations may apply to the Fund for Ravenswood each cycle even if they received an award in the previous grant cycle.
The Fund identifies five broad Ravenswood priorities: Quality of Life Improvement, Vibrant Economy-Downtown Support, Healthy Lifestyles, Public Safety, and Workplace Readiness. Atlas does not treat those broad priorities alone as healthcare eligibility. Publication here is limited to projects whose funded scope independently satisfies the direct healthcare gate through the governing PACF health funding fields and an applicant-controlled health objective.
Funding
Under the governing PACF Community Action Grant guidelines, requests are generally up to $20,000. Requests above $20,000 may be considered for highly collaborative projects or projects with broad regional impact, but applicants must contact PACF before submitting a request over that amount. This is not a guaranteed award ceiling for any specific applicant.
Deadline
The current PACF grant-opportunities page lists the Fund for Ravenswood Fall cycle as open July 15 through September 15, 2026. The current controlling page does not state a closing clock time or time zone, so Atlas does not infer either. PACF’s governing guidelines state that late applications are not accepted.
Healthcare Publication-Scope Gate
This record passes Atlas’s hard healthcare-publication gate only for directly documented health projects. The Fund for Ravenswood follows the PACF Community Action Grant guidelines, and those current guidelines expressly identify Health and Wellness, Mental Health, Substance Use Disorders, Disability Services, Seniors, and Emergency Response/Public Safety among supported fields. They also expressly allow major equipment, program development or expansion, capacity building, and qualifying operating support. Generic downtown development, education, recreation, facilities, ordinary IT, transportation, workforce-readiness, or other non-health projects are outside this Atlas record unless the specific funded scope itself establishes a direct healthcare, school-health, public-health, behavioral-health, disability-health, substance-use, EMS, maternal/pediatric-health, aging-health, or health-infrastructure objective.
Costs, Match, Forms, and Submission
PACF’s governing guidelines permit capital and equipment projects, program development or expansion, capacity building, and qualifying operating support. Matching support is a stated priority factor but the current guidelines do not impose a universal mandatory match percentage. Requests are generally declined for annual campaigns, endowments, sectarian religious purposes, political purposes or lobbying, existing obligations/debts/liabilities, and student travel or participation in meetings, seminars, or study-exchange programs.
Applications are submitted through PACF’s online grant portal. Required attachments include a list of officers and board members and a financial report for the most recently completed fiscal year, audited if available; PACF may request additional items such as a recent Form 990 or tax-exempt documentation. The project budget must be specific and itemized, show quantities and costs, explain the basis for costs, identify income sources and their status, and balance total income and expenses. PACF does not publish blanket preapproval for telehealth or remote-exam equipment, so any device or technology cost must be tied to the applicant’s documented health project and final budget.
N9+ and Dr. Miltie Fit
N9+ Fit Score: 74/100 conditional. The Nonagon N9+ remote physical examination platform has a legitimate conditional pathway because the governing PACF guidelines directly fund health projects and major equipment, and Ravenswood has eligible clinical providers. The Fund does not specifically preapprove N9+, telehealth hardware, platform licensing, or vendor costs, so allowability must not be overstated.
QC Healthcare Fit: 48/100 conditional. A healthcare implementation, equipment, workflow, or service-support role may fit a health-specific project if the applicant and PACF permit the cost. Dr. Miltie direct-applicant fit: 0/100 because the published eligibility is limited to qualifying nonprofits and public institutions.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 91/100. This is a current, narrowly geographic West Virginia opportunity with an explicit health pathway through the Fund’s governing PACF guidelines, flexible health-relevant project structures, and a near-term September 15 deadline. Strong candidates are eligible nonprofit health providers, behavioral-health organizations, disability-health organizations, public health or emergency-response entities, and other qualifying organizations that can demonstrate direct benefit to Ravenswood residents.
Priority West Virginia Applicant
Coplin Health Systems – Atlas Organization Opportunity Score: 97/100. Coplin operates River Valley Family Care in Ravenswood and its current first-party materials document primary, acute, preventive, behavioral, dental, mobile-health, school-based, and related healthcare services. That makes Coplin a strong substantive fit for a health-specific Ravenswood project. However, applicant-controlled PACF eligibility, current-cycle application status, prior reporting requirements where applicable, project scope, budget, and device/vendor allowability must be confirmed before any CRM pursuit or outreach is advanced.
Submission and Contact
Apply through PACF’s online grant portal linked from the current grant-opportunities page. PACF’s current grant page identifies Maribeth Saleem-Tanner, Senior Program Officer, at 304-428-4438 and maribeth.saleem-tanner@pacfwv.com for grant questions.
Official Sources
Parkersburg Area Community Foundation – Apply for a Grant
Parkersburg Area Community Foundation – Community Action Grants Program FAQs
Parkersburg Area Community Foundation – Fund for Ravenswood