Ways to Give
100% of every donation is invested in the Park you LOVE
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Donations to the Oglebay Foundation provide for Oglebay’s future while supporting the world’s most outstanding municipal park system. When you make a gift to the Oglebay Foundation, you strengthen your connection to the park you love and become part of a community of people who care passionately about family, tradition, neighbors, youth, conservation, health, and beauty of this incredible place.
Generous contributions from individuals like you help provide the funds necessary to operate, maintain, and grow Oglebay and Wheeling Park. Your gift today is tomorrow’s legacy.
Gifts may be made online as either a one-time gift or a monthly, recurring sustaining support. You may also mail a check to the Oglebay Foundation or contact the Oglebay Foundation at 304-243-4166 to make a gift over the phone. These gifts can be designated toward a specific program or facility in the parks or may be given in honor or memory of a loved one.
If you are interested in learning more about planned gifts, bequests, sponsorships, and naming opportunities, don’t hesitate to contact the Oglebay Foundation by phone at 304-243-4166 or via email: foundation@oglebay.com for more specific information.
Current Projects
Future Trees
In the 1920s, the Oglebay family supported the planting of over 362,000 saplings that matured into the picturesque wooded hills of today. Over the decades, environmental impacts like disease…
Give Access
Access to the Parks provides scholarships to families based on financial need. This program supports about 1,500 children and an accompanying adult each year for year-round recreational activities…
Hofreuter Wellness Trail
The new Hofreuter Wellness Trail at Wheeling Park is the culmination of the life and passions of Dr. Donald H. Hofreuter, bringing elements of his extraordinary life…
Support Golf
Golf courses were being cut at Oglebay before the ink was dry on the City’s acceptance of Waddington Farm as Oglebay Park. Today, Oglebay Golf offers the largest First Tee Program in our region as well…
Support Ice
As the only public ice facility in the Upper Ohio Valley, Wheeling Park’s JB Chambers Memorial Ice Rink is used by 600 Wheeling Amateur Hockey players, 125 Wheeling Skate Club members, six hockey teams…
Support Oglebay
100% of every gift is invested in the park you love. General giving provides the Foundation’s Board of Directors the flexibility to use the money where the need is greatest. Some of these gifts fund strategic…
Support our Animals
As the only Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) accredited zoo in West Virginia, the Good Zoo provides countless educational programs on the property and in the community…
Support Ski
SKI Support Ski Over a 5 year period, we plan to continue investing in improvements to snow making with a total investment of $500,000. Our goal for the 2022-2023 ski season is $165,000. Skiing At Oglebay In preparation for the upcoming season, the park has: Repaired the Snow Groomer Serviced all Snow Guns Added New […]
Support Tennis
Our proud tennis tradition dates to the first Oglebay courts, built-in 1939. Improvements over the years have included additional facilities including new and renovated…
Wheeling Park Upgrades
The city of Wheeling granted the Wheeling Park Commission American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to…
Power of Giving
Generous financial contributions from individuals like you help provide the necessary funds to operate and grow Oglebay and Wheeling Park.
Whether that support occurs now or in the future, it’s important that we have the opportunity to thank you for your support because of its impact on the Parks, so please let us know your plans.
Unrestricted Giving
The most powerful gift to the Oglebay Foundation is one where you the donor allow the Foundation’s board of directors the discretion to use your gift where the need is the greatest. This flexibility may allow the Foundation to match donations from other donor sources such as federal, state and local grants which often require the Foundation to provide matching funds, or to resolve an unfunded emergency.
Annual Giving
“The parks have always been outstanding and so efficiently run. When you give a gift to the parks, you know it will go entirely toward the project for which it was meant.”
– Dr. Robert Sonneborn on his family’s long relationship with Wheeling’s parks.
Annual Membership Benefits
Individuals and organizations donating $25 or more a year receive an annual calendar and reports of progress at the park.
Annual donors of $100 or more are Friends of Oglebay, receiving additional benefits including an annual subscription to the quarterly newsletter, American Ideal.
Park Associates
Waddington Farm Society
W.E. Stone Circle
You are invited to make a difference!
Become a part of what Earl W. Oglebay started with his legacy gift of a 750-acre farm – that became a world-renowned park – by making a provision of support through your own estate gift.
You are cordially invited to become a member of the Earl W. Oglebay Legacy Society today by making one of the following gifts:
- a gift provision in your will or revocable trust for the Oglebay Foundation.
- naming the Oglebay Foundation the future beneficiary of a retirement account or a charitable remainder trust.
- changing the ownership of a paid-up whole life insurance policy to the Oglebay Foundation.
For more information about benefits of giving to the Oglebay Foundation, please call 304-243-4028 or email heddy@oglebay.com.