Opportunity Overview
Verified open West Virginia health funding opportunity. The Highmark West Virginia Charitable Fund for Health, a fund of the Highmark Foundation, awards health related programmatic grants to charitable organizations implementing evidence based programs designed to improve community health in West Virginia.
Funding
The current proposal management portal does not publish a standard per award minimum, maximum, or award range. Atlas does not infer an applicant ceiling from historical awards or third party summaries.
Deadline and Submission Timing
The current proposal portal is open for online requests and does not publish a fixed application deadline, clock time, or time zone. Atlas therefore does not invent one. Applicants should confirm current timing directly in the live proposal system before submission.
Eligibility
An applicant must be a nonprofit organization recognized as tax exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and as a public charity under section 509(a), and it must be located in one of West Virginia’s 55 counties. The Fund does not support third party or fiduciary arrangements. An organization may receive only one grant from the Fund in a year, so an applicant must also confirm that it has not already received a Fund grant during 2026.
Health Priorities
The controlling source identifies six priority areas: community health, family health, access to care, service delivery systems, chronic disease, and oral health. Supported projects should align with the Fund’s mission, demonstrate new and sustainable approaches to health problems, and illustrate the effectiveness of early intervention and preventive health.
Restrictions
The Fund states that it will not support galas, lobbying or political campaigns, golf tournaments, capital campaigns, capital costs including construction or renovation, endowments, overhead costs, individual needs, or other forms of financial aid.
Submission Mechanics
All requests for consideration must be submitted online through the Fund’s proposal management system. New applicants create an account in the portal; existing applicants sign in with their existing account.
N9+ and QC Healthcare Fit
N9+ Fit Score: 35/100 conditional. The Fund directly prioritizes access to care, service delivery systems, chronic disease, and preventive health, which can create a legitimate clinical technology use case. However, the controlling source does not specifically authorize telehealth hardware, remote examination devices, subscriptions, or the Nonagon N9+ device and platform, and it excludes capital costs. N9+ should not be presented as an allowable grant expense unless the Fund confirms the proposed cost treatment for the specific project.
QC Healthcare Fit: 35/100 conditional. An eligible nonprofit may have a legitimate implementation or project support need within an approved health program, but the current public criteria do not specifically establish outside vendor or professional service allowability. No direct vendor opportunity for Dr. Miltie or QC Healthcare is confirmed from the controlling source.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 92/100. The opportunity has an explicit statewide West Virginia healthcare nexus and a live official proposal channel. The principal verification gaps are the absence of a published standard award range, fixed deadline, and project specific vendor or device cost rules. Those gaps do not defeat publication, but they do prevent applicant outreach or any claim that N9+ or QC Healthcare costs are preapproved.
Next Actions
Eligible West Virginia public charities should confirm that they have not already received a Fund grant during calendar year 2026, select a priority health project, verify project specific cost allowability with the Fund where needed, create or use an existing proposal management account, and submit online. Atlas should not initiate applicant outreach for a specific organization until organization level eligibility, same year grant status, contact identity, opt out and bounce status, deduplication, and any proposed N9+ or QC Healthcare cost treatment are verified.
Official Source
Highmark West Virginia Charitable Fund for Health Proposal Management System