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

Alaska Conservation Foundation

Anchorage, Alaska

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
Alliance for the Great Lakes

Chicago, Illinois

Operating support.

$200,000 over 2 years
BorderLight International Festival of Theatre Cleveland Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$160,000 over 2 years
Minneapolis Foundation

Minneapolis, Minnesota

RE-AMP operating support.

$70,000 over 2 years
Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund

Cincinnati, Ohio

Operating support.

$300,000 over 2 years

Creative Culture and Arts

10K Movement

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support and Lords of the Land.

$55,000 over 2 years
Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$55,000 over 2 years
Assembly for the Arts

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$200,000
Assembly for the Arts

Cleveland, Ohio

Cuyahoga County Arts and Culture public funding models research.

$50,000
BorderLight International Festival of Theatre Cleveland Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$160,000 over 2 years
CityMusic Cleveland Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$15,000
Cleveland Arts Prize

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$25,000
Cleveland International Film Festival Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support and strategic planning.

$200,000
Contemporary Youth Orchestra

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
Ohio Citizens Committee for the Arts Foundation

Columbus, Ohio

Advocacy Leadership Institute.

$45,000 over 3 years
Seat of the Pants Ensemble

Cleveland, Ohio

The First Snow of Summer.

$10,000
SPACES

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support, strategic planning and capacity building.

$150,000 over 2 years
Talespinner Children’s Theatre Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$60,000 over 2 years
The Sparrow’s Fortune

Cleveland, Ohio

Capacity building.

$10,000

Public Education

Youth Opportunities Unlimited

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$300,000 over 2 years

Special Commitments

Alliance for Justice

Washington, DC

Bolder Advocacy initiative.

$150,000 over 2 years
As You Sow

Oakland, California

Operating support.

$80,000 over 2 years
Association of Black Foundation Executives

New York, New York

Membership dues.

$25,000 over 2 years
Ceres, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts

Membership dues.

$1,225
Council on Foundations, Inc.

Arlington, Virginia

Operating support.

$19,000
Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc.

Columbia, Maryland

VisionWalk.

$5,000
Mission Investors Exchange Inc.

Seattle, Washington

Operating support.

$30,000 over 2 years
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$20,000 over 2 years
PEAK Grantmaking

Washington, DC

Membership dues.

$5,000 over 2 years
Philanthropy Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$75,000
The Center for Effective Philanthropy

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Operating support.

$20,000 over 2 years

Vibrant Neighborhoods and Inclusive Economy

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

Executive Leadership Development Experience.

$70,000
DigitalC

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$200,000 over 2 years
Enterprise Community Partners Inc.

Columbia, Maryland

State and local policy advocacy for equitable and affordable housing.

$150,000 over 2 years
Enterprise Community Partners Inc.

Columbia, Maryland

She's Rising program.

$25,000
Fund for Our Economic Future

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$300,000 over 3 years
HFLA of Northeast Ohio

Beachwood, Ohio

Operating support.

$100,000
Hispanic Business Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support and launch of CentroVilla25.

$1,200,000 over 3 years
Neighborhood Leadership Institute

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$300,000 over 3 years
PolicyBridge

Cleveland, Ohio

Urban Agenda Collective Impact Project.

$225,000 over 2 years
Smart Development Inc.

Lakewood, Ohio

Operating support.

$350,000 over 2 years
United Way Services of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Universal Basic Employment (UBE) pilot.

$100,000 over 2 years
Western Reserve Land Conservancy

Novelty, Ohio

Thriving Communities program.

$50,000

$7,235,225 / 51 Grants