Arts
Education Film & Media Performing Arts Special Programs Visual Arts Program-Related Investment
The Foundation remained committed to ensuring the vitality of Cleveland’s arts community and nurturing its creative class with grants to organizations, both large and small, that reached audiences in neighborhoods and schools as well as in traditional performance and exhibition venues and that offered opportunities for local artists. The Foundation made a $3 million gift to the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra’s Sound for the Centennial endowment campaign. Arts grantmaking totaled $6,049,050.
Education
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Art House, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Studio2Go. | $10,000 -
Broadway School of Music & the Arts
Cleveland, Ohio
Operating support. | $10,000 -
Cleveland Music School Settlement
Cleveland, Ohio
New website. | $35,000 -
Cleveland State University Foundation, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Arts Education Consortium. | $10,000 -
Eleanor B. Rainey Memorial Institute, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
El Sistema@Rainey. | $30,000 -
Grantmakers in the Arts
Seattle, Washington
Arts Education Funders Coalition. | $5,000 -
Great Lakes Theater Festival, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Education department. | $90,000
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Near West Theatre, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Operating support. | $20,000 -
Northern Ohio Children’s Performing Music Foundation, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Technology upgrades. | $10,000 -
Ohio City Near West Development Corporation
Cleveland, Ohio
Ohio City Writers. | $20,000 -
Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Art is Education initiative. | Up to $70,000 -
Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Summer Artworks program. | $10,000 -
Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Summer ArtWorks program. | $10,000
Film & Media
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Cleveland Institute of Art
Cleveland, Ohio
Cinematheque endowment in memory of George Gund III. | $100,000 -
The Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Endowment of annual George Gund III Memorial Central and Eastern European Film Competition. | $250,000 -
The Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Operating support and festival enhancements. | $100,000
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The Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Festival opening night in memory of George Gund III. | $55,000 -
National Public Radio, Inc.
Washington, DC
Midwest news coverage. | $100,000 over 2 years -
Playhouse Square Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio
Fresh Water Cleveland arts coverage. | $10,000
Performing Arts
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Apollo’s Fire The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Administrative capacity building. | $20,000 over 2 years -
ChamberFest Cleveland
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Start-up support. | $20,000 -
CityMusic Cleveland Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland performances and outreach. | $35,000 -
Cleveland Chamber Symphony Council Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
NEOSonicFest - A New Music Festival. | $10,000 -
Cleveland Classical Guitar Society
Cleveland, Ohio
Marketing. | $3,000 -
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra
Bedford, Ohio
Hanna Theatre concerts and development plan implementation. | $60,000 over 2 years -
Cleveland Modern Dance Association
Cleveland, Ohio
Operating support. | $45,000 -
The Cleveland Play House
Cleveland, Ohio
Operating support and apprenticeship program. | $110,000 -
The Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Inc.
Beachwood, Ohio
New website. | $20,000 -
Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Operating support and Danceworks. | $80,000 -
Dobama Theatre, Inc.
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Operating support. | $25,000
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Groundworks Dancetheater
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Operating support. | $38,000 -
InLet Dance Theatre
Cleveland, Ohio
Strategic planning. | $9,250 -
Karamu House
Cleveland, Ohio
Theater support. | $50,000 -
The Musical Arts Association
Cleveland, Ohio
Sound for the Centennial Campaign. | $3,000,000 over 6 years -
Opera Circle, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Operating support. | Up to $20,000 -
Professional Flair, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Rock that Rolls project. | $10,000 -
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Strategic planning. | $40,000 -
SPACES
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Performance Art Festival. | $10,000 -
Theater Ninjas Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Administrative and artistic support. | $8,000 -
Verb Ballets
Cleveland, Ohio
Operating and project support. | $38,000
Special Programs
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Arts Collinwood Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Operating support. | $30,000 -
Cleveland Festival of Art and Technology Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Operating support. | $75,000 -
Community Partnership for Arts and Culture
Cleveland, Ohio
Operating support. | $210,000 -
Cultural Data Project
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ohio Cultural Data Project. | $25,000 -
Gordon Square Arts District
Cleveland, Ohio
Capital campaign. | $800,000
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Grantmakers in the Arts
Seattle, Washington
Operating support. | $3,000 -
LAND studio, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
AHA! Festival of Lights. | $100,000 -
Ohio City Near West Development Corporation
Cleveland, Ohio
Literary Lots. | $5,000 -
St. Clair-Superior Development Corporation
Cleveland, Ohio
Night Market CLE. | $20,000 -
Western Reserve Historical Society
Cleveland, Ohio
Public needs assessment. | $30,000
Visual Arts
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Building Bridges Murals, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Forsythia project. | $3,000 -
Cleveland Institute of Art
Cleveland, Ohio
Praxis Integrated Fiber Workshop in Waterloo Arts District. | $10,000 -
Cleveland West Art League Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Strategic planning. | $8,500 -
Heights Arts Collaborative Inc.
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Working Artist Membership Program. | $9,500
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Sculpture Center
Cleveland, Ohio
Exhibition and marketing support. | $8,800 -
SPACES
Cleveland, Ohio
Operating support and director search. | $60,000 -
Zygote Press Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Operating support and Zygote Press Annex in Waterloo Arts District. | $55,000
Program-Related Investment
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The Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Digital equipment purchase | $500,000
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