The climate crisis negatively affects BIPOC people at a radically disproportionate rate and yet, mainstream environmental activists and the media continue to prioritize stranded polar bears on melting ice caps over people whose homes have been lost to flooding and land erosion.”

What do you see? Who do you follow? Who is in your center?

Grantmaking /

Awarded Grants

Climate and Environmental Justice

Bike Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$390,000 over 3 years
Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy

San Francisco, California

Operating support.

$25,000
Citizens Utility Board of Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Cleveland Public Power Federal grant.

$10,000
Citizens Utility Board of Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$300,000 over 2 years
City of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

CPP Climate and Environmental Justice Fellow.

$150,000 over 2 years
Cleveland State University Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Energy Policy Center.

$25,000
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity Inc.

San Francisco, California

Climate and Energy Funders Group.

$15,000
Economic Growth Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Climate communications work.

$5,000
Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Operating support.

$100,000 over 2 years
Greater Ohio Policy Center Inc.

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$225,000 over 3 years
Heritage Ohio Inc.

Columbus, Ohio

Website.

$15,000
NEO Youth Climate Summit

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$7,500
Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund

Cincinnati, Ohio

Rural Solar organizing.

$25,000
Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association

Columbus, Ohio

Farm Policy Matters.

$50,000
Power a Clean Future Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Climate & Clean Energy Coalition retreat.

$28,000
Solar United Neighbors

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$150,000 over 2 years
West Creek Conservancy

Parma, Ohio

Operating support.

$25,000
West Creek Conservancy

Parma, Ohio

Climate Pollution Reduction Assistance.

$20,000
West Creek Conservancy

Parma, Ohio

Operating support.

$450,000 over 3 years

Creative Culture and Arts

10K Movement

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$30,000
Apollo’s Fire The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Project support.

$50,000 over 2 years
Art House, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support

$30,000
Arts Impact Incorporated

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000
Assembly for the Arts

Cleveland, Ohio

Arts and culture public opinion research and outreach.

$50,000
Assembly for the Arts

Cleveland, Ohio

Strategic planning process.

$40,000
Beck Center for the Arts

Lakewood, Ohio

Website/operating support.

$20,000
Broadway School of Music and the Arts

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$55,000 over 2 years
Center for Arts-Inspired Learning

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support

$50,000
ChamberFest Cleveland

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
Cleveland Arts Education Consortium

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$15,000
Cleveland Arts Prize

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$20,000
Cleveland Chamber Choir

Richmond Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$15,000
Cleveland Classical Guitar Society

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$40,000 over 2 years
Cleveland Festival of Art and Technology Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$80,000 over 2 years
Cleveland International Film Festival Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$150,000
Cleveland International Film Festival Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Executive Director search.

$25,000
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra

Bedford, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
Cleveland Play House

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$90,000
Cleveland Print Room Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000
Cleveland Review of Books

Cleveland, Ohio

Publication and subscriber base expansion.

$15,000
Collective Arts Network

Lakewood, Ohio

Operating support.

$30,000
Dobama Theatre Inc.

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
Duffy Liturgical Dance Ensemble

Shaker Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$15,000
Foluke Cultural Arts Center Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$30,000
Great Lakes Theater Festival, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Education programs.

$90,000
Greater Cleveland Urban Film Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$60,000
GroundWorks Dancetheater

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$60,000
iFilm Inc.

Shaker Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000
Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000
Karamu House

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support

$100,000
Lake Erie Ink: a writing space for youth

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Creating a Community of Writers.

$24,000 over 2 years
LatinUs Theater Experience Company

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$60,000 over 2 years
Les Delices

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$32,000 over 2 years
Literary Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$70,000 over 2 years
Local 4 Music Fund Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

She Scores 2024.

$10,000
Lylesart

Richmond Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$15,000
Maelstrom Collaborative Arts

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$20,000
Modern Warrior Live

Cleveland, Ohio

EXPERIENCE Program.

$35,000
Mojuba Dance Collective

Maple Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$20,000
Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$100,000
Near West Theatre

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support and security and safety plan.

$20,000
Open Tone Music LLC

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$15,000
Piano International Association of Northern Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Educational and community engagement programming.

$80,000 over 2 years
Praxis Integrated Fiber Workshop

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support and Indigo Manufacturing and Residency Program.

$140,000 over 2 years
Rainey Institute

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Induction ceremony events.

$50,000
Roots of American Music Inc.

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$15,000
Sculpture Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$60,000 over 2 years
Southern Methodist University

University Park, Texas

SMU data arts operating support.

$16,000
Talespinner Children’s Theatre Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$30,000
The Cleveland Orchestra

Cleveland, Ohio

Arts Administration Internship program.

$150,000 over 2 years
The Contemporary Youth Orchestra

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$25,000
Tri-C JazzFest

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
Verb Ballets

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$75,000 over 2 years
Zygote Press Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating and project support for relocation plan and Pressing Matters afterschool program.

$40,000

Democracy-Building

Cleveland Council on World Affairs

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$20,000
Cleveland VOTES

Cleveland, Ohio

Democracy Collective.

$100,000
Cleveland VOTES

Cleveland, Ohio

More Than My Art creative activism initiative.

$25,000
Cleveland VOTES

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$366,000
Cleveland VOTES

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$734,000 over 2 years
Council on American-Islamic Relations – Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Democracy- and capacity-building support.

$60,000
Enlightened Solutions

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$250,000 over 2 years
Equality Ohio Education Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$20,000
Fair Elections Center

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$125,000
Fair Elections Center

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$125,000
Faith in Public Life Inc.

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$100,000
Faith in Public Life Inc.

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$100,000
Guides.vote

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$60,000
Healthy Democracy Fund

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$500,000
HOLA Ohio

Ashtabula, Ohio

Operating support.

$2,000
Matriots Education Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000
Matriots Education Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$75,000
Nonprofit VOTE Inc.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Operating support.

$25,000
Nonprofit VOTE Inc.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Operating support.

$50,000
Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000
Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000
Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund

Cincinnati, Ohio

Operating support.

$75,000
Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Foundation

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$95,000
Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$200,000 over 2 years
Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$30,000
Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000
Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$1,000,000
Peace Development Fund Inc.

Amherst, Massachusetts

People's Justice Project.

$60,000
Showing Up for Racial Justice Education Fund Inc.

Buffalo, New York

Operating support.

$60,000
Union for Reform Judaism

Washington, DC

RAC-OH.

$30,000

Public Education

City Year Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts

City Year Cleveland.

$60,000
Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Excellence in Teaching Award.

$65,000
Cleveland Metropolitan School District

Cleveland, Ohio

FIRST Robotics Teams.

$40,000
Cleveland State University Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Organizational Resilience and Financial Stability Plan.

$150,000
Cleveland State University Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Living Learning Community.

$2,750,000
Cleveland Transformation Alliance

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$175,000
College Now Greater Cleveland, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Higher Education Compact of Greater Cleveland.

$75,000
College Now Greater Cleveland, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Say Yes Student Support Services.

$75,000
College Now Greater Cleveland, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

College access advising services, scholarships, and retention services for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District students.

$400,000
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Youth Technology Academy Varsity FIRST Robotics Competition.

$6,000
Economic Growth Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Polling on Cleveland education issues.

$10,000
Esperanza Incorporated

Cleveland, Ohio

Search for a new president and chief executive officer.

$30,000
Facing History and Ourselves Inc.

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating support for the Cleveland office.

$25,000
Honesty for Ohio Education

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$300,000 over 2 years
Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$100,000
PRE4CLE

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$350,000
Say Yes Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Title IV-E consultant study.

$200,000
Say Yes Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Data Analytics.

$25,000
Teaching Cleveland Foundation

University Heights, Ohio

Capacity building.

$20,000

Special Commitments

As You Sow

Oakland, California

Operating support.

$30,000
Association of Black Foundation Executives

New York, New York

Membership dues.

$10,000
Candid

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$10,000
Ceres, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts

Membership dues.

$1,200
City Club of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$100,000 over 2 years
City Club of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$15,000
Council on Foundations, Inc.

Arlington, Virginia

Operating support.

$19,000
Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc.

Columbia, Maryland

Retinal degenerative disease research.

$2,000,000
Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc.

Columbia, Maryland

VisionWalk.

$5,000
Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation

New York, New York

Membership dues.

$10,000
ideastream

Cleveland, Ohio

Community interest programming.

$500,000 over 2 years
Media Impact Funders Inc.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Operating support.

$10,000
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$10,000
National Public Radio, Inc.

Washington, DC

Midwest news coverage..

$125,000 over 2 years
PEAK Grantmaking

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$3,500
Philanthropy Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$75,000
Policy Matters Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$250,000 over 2 years
The Center for Effective Philanthropy

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Operating support.

$10,000

Vibrant Neighborhoods and Inclusive Economy

Accelerator for America

Los Angeles, California

National Housing Crisis Task Force.

$50,000
Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

Wade Park Community Engagement Center.

$250,000
Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

Executive Leadership Development Experience.

$40,000
Center for Economic Democracy

Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

Operating support.

$1,500
Cleveland Neighborhood Progress

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$1,215,000
Cleveland Owns

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$100,000 over 2 years
Cleveland Public Market Corporation

Cleveland, Ohio

West Side Market transformation project.

$3,600,000 over 3 years
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc.

Roxbury, Massachusetts

Operating support.

$1,500
Economic and Community Development Institute, Inc.

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$200,000 over 2 years
EDWINS Leadership and Restaurant Institute

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$260,000 over 2 years
Encore Employment Enterprise, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$100,000 over 2 years
Fund for Our Economic Future

Cleveland, Ohio

Operations of a new non-profit clean energy development authority.

$600,000 over 3 years
Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Buckeye and Mount Pleasant neighborhood revitalization.

$100,000
Hispanic Roundtable Community Programs

Cleveland, Ohio

Voter participation survey.

$10,000
Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts

Operating support.

$1,500
LAND studio, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support and strategic planning.

$200,000 over 2 years
Linking Employment, Abilities & Potential

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$150,000 over 2 years
NAACP Cleveland Branch

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$600,000 over 3 years
Neighborhood Leadership Institute

Cleveland, Ohio

Donte's Gift Express.

$13,000
Northeast Ohio Worker Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$100,000 over 2 years
Ohio CDC Association

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$200,000 over 2 years
PolicyBridge

Cleveland, Ohio

Urban Agenda Collective Impact Project-Phase II.

$100,000
Presidents’ Council Foundation Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000
Rid-All Foundation Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$400,000 over 3 years
SEIU Education & Support Fund

Northampton, Massachusetts

Green Janitor Cleveland.

$30,000
Site Readiness for Good Jobs Fund

Cleveland, Ohio

Modular Home Building Feasibility.

$25,000
Sociedad Latina Inc.

Roxbury, Massachusetts

Operating support.

$1,500
Spanish American Committee for a Better Community

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$200,000 over 2 years
The Northeast Ohio Hispanic Center for Economic Development

Cleveland, Ohio

Peer-to-peer exchange with several community and economic development nonprofit organizations in Boston, MA.

$12,375
Union Miles Development Corp.

Cleveland, Ohio

Johnson Garden shed project.

$2,500
United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Juneteenth follow-up activities.

$15,000
Urban League of Greater Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Empowering Community Impact Project and participation in the National Urban League conference.

$75,000
Urban League of Greater Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$900,000 over 3 years
WFL Collective

Washington, DC

9410 Hough project.

$500,000 over 2 years
Young Latino Network

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$500,000 over 2 years

$33,038,225 / 230 Grants