From urban farming and community solar to inclusive environmental access and advocacy, we are witnessing a more racially diverse collective of environmental and climate leaders emerge in Cleveland (and beyond).”

We cannot achieve climate justice without racial justice.

Grantmaking /

Awarded Grants

Climate and Environmental Justice

Alaska Conservation Foundation

Anchorage, Alaska

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
Citizens Utility Board of Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

CUB Ohio CPP Reform in 2022.

$25,000
Citizens Utility Board of Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$300,000 over 2 years
Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Ohio Water Partnership.

$100,000
Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

COP27.

$25,000
Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Nonprofit Operations Workshop Series.

$65,000
Cleveland Metroparks System

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$10,000
Cleveland State University Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Energy Policy Center.

$25,000
Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Peninsula, Ohio

Educational and community partnerships.

$380,000 over 2 years
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity Inc.

San Francisco, California

Operating support.

$10,000
Cuyahoga Valley Countryside Conservancy

Peninsula, Ohio

Conservation farming.

$90,000 over 2 years
Cuyahoga Valley Countryside Conservancy

Peninsula, Ohio

Operating support.

$25,000
Energy Foundation

San Francisco, California

Ohio Key States Program.

$1,950,000 over 3 years
Environmental Health Watch Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Healthy Homes, Healthy People, Healthy Communities.

$375,000 over 3 years
Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Operating support for Ohio office.

$100,000 over 2 years
Fresh Energy

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Energy News Network.

$100,000 over 2 years
Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, Inc.

Coral Gables, Florida

Operating support.

$80,000 over 2 years
Greater Ohio Policy Center Inc.

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$165,000 over 2 years
Growth Opportunity Partners Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$1,000,000 over 2 years
In Our Backyards Inc.

Brooklyn, New York

Operating support for the Cleveland office.

$195,000 over 3 years
Institute for Conservation Leadership

Takoma Park, Maryland

Operating support.

$525,000 over 3 years
Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency

Cleveland, Ohio

Regional Climate Action Plan.

$50,000
Ohio City Incorporated

Cleveland, Ohio

Building Connections.

$150,000 over 2 years
Ohio Conservative Energy Forum

Columbus, Ohio

C3 Candidate Education Plan.

$25,000
Ohio Environmental Council

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$1,320,000 over 3 years
Ohio Environmental Council

Columbus, Ohio

Climate & Clean Energy Coalition Retreat.

$25,000
Power a Clean Future Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$250,000 over 2 years
See You at the Top Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$25,000
Solar United Neighbors

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$150,000 over 2 years
Tech Belt Energy Innovation Center

Warren, Ohio

Operating support.

$25,000
The Climate Registry

Los Angeles, California

COP27.

$25,000
West Creek Conservancy

Parma, Ohio

Conservation Working Capital Revolving Fund.

$300,000
West Creek Conservancy

Parma, Ohio

Operating support.

$450,000 over 3 years

Creative Culture and Arts

99 Treasurers Arts & Culture

Cleveland, Ohio

Reading & Art Empowers Minds.

$5,000
Apollo’s Fire The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$40,000 over 2 years
Art House, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$75,000 over 2 years
Assembly for the Arts

Cleveland, Ohio

10K Movement.

$25,000
Association of African American Cultural Gardens Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

The African American Cultural Garden.

$150,000 over 2 years
Beck Center for the Arts

Lakewood, Ohio

Customer Relationship Management System.

$70,000 over 2 years
BorderLight International Festival of Theatre Cleveland Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support and supplementary consultant support.

$100,000
Broadway School of Music and the Arts

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$75,000 over 2 years
Center for Arts-Inspired Learning

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000
Center for Initiative in Art and Culture Inc.

New York, New York

Arts and Crafts Movement, Cleveland and Environs conference.

$2,500
ChamberFest Cleveland

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
Cleveland Arts Education Consortium

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$10,000
Cleveland Ballet

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
Cleveland Chamber Symphony Council Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$10,000
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 Institute of Music

Cleveland, Ohio

Musical Pathway Fellowship.

$150,000 over 3 years
Cleveland Music School Settlement

Cleveland, Ohio

Elevator repair.

$10,000
Cleveland Play House

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support and Cleveland Cohort Initiative.

$110,000
Collective Arts Network

Lakewood, Ohio

Operating and CAN Triennial support.

$90,000 over 2 years
Comite Mexicano De Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$12,000
Contemporary Youth Orchestra

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$65,000
convergence-continuum

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating and strategic plan support.

$30,000
Dobama Theatre Inc.

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating and strategic plan support.

$60,000 over 2 years
Duffy Liturgical Dance Ensemble

Shaker Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$30,000
Foluke Cultural Arts Center Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$75,000 over 2 years
Front Exhibition Company

Cleveland, Ohio

Strategic plan.

$65,000
Grantmakers in the Arts

Seattle, Washington

Arts Education Funders Coalition and operating support.

$10,000
Great Lakes Theater Festival, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Education programs.

$200,000 over 2 years
Greater Cleveland Urban Film Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$150,000
GroundWorks Dancetheater

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating, DEIA, and Artist in Residence support.

$100,000 over 2 years
Group Plan Commission

Cleveland, Ohio

Superior Crossing.

$100,000
ideastream

Cleveland, Ohio

Community issues and engagement.

$500,000 over 2 years
Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$75,000 over 2 years
Karamu House

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support and capacity building.

$250,000 over 2 years
Lake Erie Ink: a writing space for youth

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Finding Joy in Literacy.

$10,000
LatinUs Theater Experience Company

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$60,000 over 2 years
Les Delices

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$24,000 over 2 years
Literary Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$100,000 over 2 years
Local 4 Music Fund Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

'She Scores.'

$10,000
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.

$150,000
Museum of Creative Human Art

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$60,000
Open Tone Music LLC

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland programming.

$15,000
Piano International Association of Northern Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

PianoKids Educational and Outreach Programming.

$90,000 over 2 years
Praxis Integrated Fiber Workshop

Cleveland, Ohio

Strategic plan.

$120,000 over 2 years
Progressive Arts Alliance Incorporated

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$60,000
Rainey Institute

Cleveland, Ohio

Theatre upgrade and operations project.

$75,000 over 2 years
Roots of American Music Inc.

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$25,000
Sankofa Fine Arts Plus

Cleveland, Ohio

Urban Renaissance with heArt 2022.

$20,000
Sculpture Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$40,000 over 2 years
SMU DataArts

Operating support.

$16,000
Talespinner Children’s Theatre Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating and leadership transition support.

$35,000
The Children’s Museum of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

STEM Kids.

$15,000
Tri-C JazzFest

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
University Circle Incorporated

Cleveland, Ohio

YAY! Youth Arts Saturdays.

$10,000
Upcycle Parts Shop

Cleveland, Ohio

Strategic plan.

$15,000
Verb Ballets

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$70,000 over 2 years
Waterloo Arts

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

75,000 over 2 years
Writers in Residence

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$20,000
Zygote Press Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating and project support.

$90,000 over 2 years

Democracy-Building

Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Jobs guarantee pilot.

$25,000
City Club of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Cuyahoga County Executive debate.

$10,000
City Club of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Forum featuring Congresswoman Liz Cheney and Judy Woodruff.

$5,000
Cleveland VOTES

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$25,000
Community of Faith Assembly

Cleveland, Ohio

Lift Every Vote Voter Engagement.

$5,000
EYEJ

Cleveland, Ohio

Democracy and Youth-Driven Social Justice.

$25,000
LEAD Ohio Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$300,000 over 2 years
Nonprofit VOTE Inc.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Operating support.

$200,000 over 2 years
Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

Up to $80,000
Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Redistricting Legal Fund.

Up to $100,000
Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Voter registration mailings.

$150,000
Ohio Voice

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$200,000
The Ohio Organizing Collaborative

Columbus, Ohio

Voter registration program.

$500,000

Public Education

City Year Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts

City Year Cleveland.

$120,000 over 2 years
Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Say Yes Cleveland Scholarship Campaign.

$200,000
Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Metropolitan School District Public Service Fellowship.

$42,000
Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Metropolitan School District's leadership transition.

$500,000
Cleveland Metropolitan School District

Cleveland, Ohio

New school startup and support.

$204,000
Cleveland Metropolitan School District

Cleveland, Ohio

FIRST Robotics Competition.

$24,000
Cleveland Metropolitan School District

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Metropolitan School District Energy and Sustainability Initiative.

$250,000
Cleveland Metropolitan School District

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Metropolitan School District TEACHing Cleveland initiative.

$275,000 over 5 years
Cleveland Metropolitan School District

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Metropolitan School District Public Service Fellowship.

$330,000
Cleveland Transformation Alliance

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$175,000
College Now Greater Cleveland, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Say Yes Scholars Program at Cuyahoga Community College.

$250,000
College Now Greater Cleveland, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

College access advising services, scholarships, and retention services for Cleveland.

$350,000
College Now Greater Cleveland, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Higher Education Compact of Greater Cleveland.

$75,000
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Youth Technology Academy FIRST Robotics Competition.

$6,000
Grantmakers for Education

Portland, Oregon

Operating support.

$11,200 over 2 years
Honesty for Ohio Education

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$25,000
National Football Museum Inc.

Canton, Ohio

Black College Football Hall of Fame Classic College Fair.

$15,000
Philanthropy Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Ohio Education Policy Initiative.

$40,000
PRE4CLE

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$350,000
Progress with Chess Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Metropolitan School District chess.

$10,000
Urban League of Greater Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Equity and Excellent in Education Project.

$10,000
Youth Opportunities Unlimited

Cleveland, Ohio

Youth Opportunities Unlimited PACE program.

$750,000 over 3 years

Special Commitments

Association of Black Foundation Executives

New York, New York

Operating support.

$10,000
Cleveland Social Venture Partners

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$10,000
Council on Foundations, Inc.

Arlington, Virginia

Operating support.

$19,000
Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc.

Columbia, Maryland

VisionWalk.

$5,000
Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc.

Columbia, Maryland

Retinal degenerative disease research.

$2,000,000
Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation

New York, New York

Operating support.

$20,000
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$10,000
The Center for Effective Philanthropy

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Operating support.

$20,000 over 2 years

Vibrant Neighborhoods and Inclusive Economy

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.

Washington, DC

Partnership for Equitable and Resilient Communities initiative.

$1,500,000 over 3 years
Brookings Institution

Washington, DC

Valuing Black Assets Initiative.

$150,000
Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Advancing Equitable Placemaking in Cleveland.

$150,000
Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Racial Equity Racial Justice Initiative.

$325,000
Cleveland Neighborhood Progress

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$2,500,000 over 2 years
Donte’s Gift Express

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$10,000
Downtown Cleveland Alliance

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$250,000
Fund for Our Economic Future

Cleveland, Ohio

Cuyahoga County Workforce Funders Group.

$3,000
FutureLAND

Cleveland, Ohio

Post-event support.

$175,000
FutureLAND

Cleveland, Ohio

Conference.

$25,000
Global Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence program.

$100,000
Innovation Ohio Education Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Ohio Mayors Alliance operating support.

$75,000
LAND studio, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Project and capacity building support.

$350,000
New Village Corporation

Cleveland, Ohio

Shaker Square project.

$500,000
Spanish American Committee for a Better Community

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$200,000 over 2 years
St. Matthew Cleveland United Methodist Church

Cleveland, Ohio

Brookdale Orchard.

$25,000
Suite 1300 Services, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Neighborhood Connections.

$1,000
Summer on the Cuyahoga

Bay Village, Ohio

Nonprofit internships.

$10,000
The Northeast Ohio Hispanic Center for Economic Development

Cleveland, Ohio

Organizational restructuring.

$25,000

$37,045,650 / 237 Grants

Climate and Environmental Justice

Creative Culture and Arts

Democracy-Building

Public Education

Special Commitments

Thriving Families and Social Justice