Abington Foundation
SUMMARY: The Abington Foundation was established to support organizations which promote community health (focus on geriatrics and nursing), welfare (focus on promotion or sustaining of individual and family self-sufficiency), cultural activities, and education.
ELIGIBILITY: Proposals are accepted from organizations based within Cuyahoga County.
AWARD: Varies
DEADLINE: May 1, September 1 and December 1.
American Electric Power
SUMMARY: AEP Sponsors special programs to encourage economic development, education, the environment, hunger, housing, health, and safety within its traditional service territory. Priority is based on the perceived overall benefit to the community.
ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible for corporate contributions, organizations must be tax exempt under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code and benefit communities within Ohio. Faith-based organizations may apply, so long as non-sectarian social services are being rendered.
AWARD: Varies
DEADLINE: Ongoing
Austin-Bailey Health and Wellness Foundation
SUMMARY: The focus of the Foundation is to support programs that promote the physical and mental well-being of the community. The Foundation emphasizes healthcare affordability concerns of the uninsured and underinsured, the poor, children, single parents and the aging. It also advocates programs that speak to the mental health needs of individuals and families.
ELIGIBILITY: Faith-based and community organizations having a 501 (c)(3) status with the IRS are eligible. Grants are made to programs working in Holmes, Stark, Tuscarawas and Wayne Counties.
AWARD: Varies
DEADLINE: Ongoing
The Bahmann Foundation
SUMMARY: The mission of the Bahmann Foundation is to reduce isolation of low-income, older adults through technology. This is accomplished by granting funds to nonprofit organizations that provide applicable services. Foundation grants help fund services and purchase equipment that stimulate mental and physical activity in elderly adults.
ELIGIBILITY: Faith-based and community organizations are eligible to apply.
AWARD: Varies
DEADLINE: Ongoing
Battelle
SUMMARY: The Batelle Trust distributes funds each year in the following categories: civic, arts, health and human services, and education. Priority is given to education initiatives.
ELIGIBILITY: Funds are primarily granted to organizations operating within the greater Columbus area. Battelle does not fund individuals, extracurricular school activities, religious, political, or fraternal organizations.
AWARD: Varies
DEADLINE: Ongoing
Ben & Jerry's Foundation
SUMMARY: Although the Ben & Jerry's Foundation doesn't prioritize any particular issue area for funding, they do focus on the types of activities and strategies an organization uses for creating social change in any number of areas. They support programs and projects that are examples of creative problem-solving.
ELIGIBILITY: The Foundation will only consider proposals from grassroots, constituent-led organizations that are 501(c)(3)s that are organizing for systemic social change. **see site for further details.
AWARD: Up to $15,000
DEADLINE: Letters of interest are accepted year round.
Visit their site to learn more: http://www.benjerry.com/company/foundation/about/
The Bicknell Fund
SUMMARY: Priority is given to social services to help the needy, homeless and disadvantaged. Grants are also made in the area of education.
ELIGIBILITY: Faith-based and community organizations operating within the Cleveland area are encouraged to apply.
AWARD: Varies
DEADLINE: Ongoing
Bob Evans
SUMMARY: Bob Evans gives in the area of families and children.
ELIGIBILITY: Faith-based and community organizations may apply.
AWARD: Varies
DEADLINE: Ongoing
The Bradley Foundation
SUMMARY: The Bradley Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking organization. Its programs support limited, competent government; a dynamic marketplace for economic, intellectual, and cultural activity; and a vigorous defense, at home and abroad, of American ideas and institutions. In addition, recognizing that responsible self-government depends on enlightened citizens and informed public opinion, the Foundation supports scholarly studies and academic achievement.
ELIGIBILITY:Nonprofit with 501c3
DEADLINE: February 1, May 1, August 1, and November 1.
WEB SITE: http://www.bradleyfdn.org/default.asp
Bruening Foundation
SUMMARY: The Foundation supports programs that enhance the quality of community life by educating youth, comforting the aged and encouraging the disadvantaged.
ELIGIBILITY: Faith-based and community initiatives having a 501(c)(3) status and operating within Cuyahoga County are encouraged to apply.
AWARD: Varies
DEADLINE: March 1, July 1 and October 1.
WEB SITE: http://www.fmscleveland.com/bruening/
Charles H. Dater Foundation
SUMMARY: The Foundation makes grants to private, nonprofit organizations and public agencies in Greater Cincinnati for programs that benefit children in the region in the areas of arts/culture, education, healthcare, social services and other community needs.
ELIGIBILITY: Faith-based and community organizations having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS and operating within the Greater Cincinnati area (Hamilton, Butler, Warren and Clermont Counties).
AWARD: Varies
DEADLINE: Ongoing, process requires a minimum of 60 days from the time an application is received until a grant request is approved or declined.
Charles LaFitte Foundation
SUMMARY: The Charles Lafitte Foundation is a private family foundation founded in 1999 by Suzanne and Jeffrey Citron. The Foundation is committed to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement on the human condition by providing support to education, children's advocacy, medical research and the arts.
ELIGIBILITY:Nonprofit with 501c3
DEADLINE: Ongoing
WEB SITE: http://www.charleslafitte.org/thefoundation.html
Cigna Foundation
SUMMARY: As part of its overall commitment to support innovative programs addressing the health and well-being of individuals, families and communities, the CIGNA Foundation makes Targeted Grants to organizations working in five core concern areas. These concerns, and representative activities, are: The Health of Women, Children, and Families; Obesity Awareness & Prevention; Patient/Doctor Communications & Health Literacy; Elimination of Gender & Ethnic Disparities in Health Care; The Connection Between a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Body
ELIGIBILITY: 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations
AWARD: Varies
DEADLINE: Ongoing
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.cigna.com/about_us/community/targeted_grant.html
Dominion Foundation
SUMMARY: Dominion provides funding awards in the areas of education, environment, culture and the arts, civic and community development, and health and human services.
ELIGIBILITY: Dominion gives awards to non-profit organizations in geographic areas where Dominion provides electricity (Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Guernsey, Hardin, Holmes, Knox, Lake, Mahoning, Medina, Mercer, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble, Paulding, Portage, Putman, Shelby, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, Tuscarawas, Van Wert, Washington, Wayne and Wood counties). Dominion does not provide funds to individuals, religious programs, fraternal, labor or political organizations, fund raising events, sportinge vents, organizations that limit membership and services based on race, religion, creed, color, sex, age or national origin, advertising, travel-related events or memorial campaigns.
AWARD: Most grants are between $1,000 and $15,000.
DEADLINE: Dominion accepts grant applications throughout the year.
Duke Energy Foundation
SUMMARY: The Duke Energy Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life in its community through the areas of environment, economic development and community vitality.
ELIGIBILITY: Recipients must be organizations with a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS or part of a governmental entity.
AWARD: Varies
DEADLINE: Ongoing
The Eaton Charitable Fund
SUMMARY: The highest priority is local organizations that serve the needs of Eaton employees and offers to them the opportunity to provide leadership, voluntary services, and personal financial support. Eaton strongly supports United Way. Program support and capital grants are given to health, human services, civic, and cultural organizations. Support to educational institutions is given but the trust has a preference for engineering, scientific, technological and business-related projects. Capital campaigns are limited to educational institutions with programs of direct interest to Eaton Corporation. Capital grants to health care organizations are limited to those geographic areas which have a shortage of services and beds, facilities which serve the needs of Eaton employees and to institutions who have reduced their ratio of beds to general public and shortened average stay. The fund also supports health care projects that will increase productivity and lower the cost of health care. The fund also has expressed interest in arts and cultural programs, higher education, children and youth services, family services, community development, neighborhood development, and economic development. Eaton lends it support through general or operating funds, capital campaigns, building/ renovation, program development, employee matching gifts and in-kind gifts.
ELIGIBILITY: No support is given to religious, fraternal, or labor organizations, or to organizations that might be part of a united fund or federated community fund, but who choose not to participate.
DEADLINE: None. The board meets monthly.
Funds Target Progressive Programs- Educational Foundation of America
SUMMARY: The mission of the Educational Foundation of America is to improve individual lives and surroundings through education and awareness, in hopes of bettering humanity and the world we inhabit. The Foundation provides grants to progressive nonprofit organizations throughout the United States that offer specific programs with broad impact. The Foundation’s areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the environment, reproductive freedom, theatre, education, medicine, drug policy reform, democracy, peace and national security issues, and human services.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
The Ellie Fund
SUMMARY: The Ellie Fund awards grants to organizations that better the lives of disadvantaged children in Cuyahoga County in the following areas: crisis intervention, literacy, mental health, physical health, safety and shelter.
ELIGIBILITY: The Fund favors start-up, grassroots and smaller faith-based and community organizations. More established organizations may be considered for particularly innovative projects.
AWARD: Grants typically range between $1,000 and $7,500.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
WEB SITE: http://www.fmscleveland.com/ellie/
Gannett Foundation
SUMMARY: The Gannett Foundation's mission is to invest in the future of the communities in which Gannett does business, and in the future of our industry. They value projects that take a creative approach to fundamental issues such as education and neighborhood improvement, economic development, youth development, community problem-solving, assistance to disadvantaged people, environmental conservation and cultural enrichment.
ELIGIBILITY: 501 (c)(3) organizations in neighborhoods where Gannett has a newspaper or tv station. (see Gannett site for locations in Ohio)
DEADLINE: The 15th of January, May, and August
Home Depot
SUMMARY: The Home Depot Foundation is dedicated to building affordable homes for working families that are healthy to live in and affordable to own. To make homes healthy and affordable, the Foundation encourages developers to incorporate responsible design and use durable materials to ensure that homes are more energy and water efficient, have good indoor air quality, and provide a safe and healthy space to live.
ELIGIBILITY: 501(c)(3) organizations. Please see the site for details.
DEADLINE: Letter of inquiry due January 15, 2010 for first cycle and July 1, 2010 for second cycle.
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.homedepotfoundation.org/
International Paper Giving
SUMMARY: International Paper Foundation supports U.S. non-profit organizations within the communities where International Paper has operating facilities. The Foundation's primary focus areas are environmental education and literacy programs for young children.
ELIGIBILITY: U.S. Nonprofits within communities where International Paper has operating facilities http://www.ipaper.com/Locations/ipMap.asp
AWARD: Varies
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.internationalpaper.com/US/EN/Company/IPGiving/IPGiving.html
IP Application guidelines http://www.internationalpaper.com/US/EN/Company/IPGiving/ApplicationGuidelines.html
The Lawrence Foundation
SUMMARY: The Lawrence Foundation is a private family foundation focused on making grants to support environmental, educational, health, human services, and other causes.
ELIGIBILITY: Nonprofit organizations that qualify for public charity status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, as well as public schools and libraries, are eligible for contributions or grants.
AWARD: See website.
DEADLINE: Applications are accepted twice a year by April 30 or October 31.
WEB SITE: http://www.thelawrencefoundation.org/grants/index.php
Longaberger Foundation
SUMMARY: The Longaberger Foundation awards grants in the following focus areas: promoting entrepreneurial principles, strengthening families and addressing regional quality of life needs (such as a children’s issues and hunger).
ELIGIBILITY: The Longaberger Foundation primarily awards funds to organizations operating in Muskingum County region.
AWARD: Varies
DEADLINE: Ongoing
The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation
SUMMARY: The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation provides funding in the following areas: education, the performing and visual arts, the environment, health care and human services.
ELIGIBILITY: Grants are not made to individuals, endowments, scholarships, fellowships or loans.
DEADLINE: There are no deadlines; initial approach is by letter of inquiry.
The Kettering Fund
SUMMARY: The mission of The Kettering Fund is to support scientific, medical, social and educational studies and research conducted by nonprofit, charitable organizations that are located and/or provide service in Ohio.
ELIGIBILITY: To determine if your project falls within the interest of The Kettering Fund, please contact the Executive Director, Judith M. Thompson by phone (937.228.1021) or email (info@ketteringfund.org).
DEADLINE: Ongoing
JP Morgan Chase
SUMMARY: JP Morgan Chase awards funding in the following areas: community asset development, youth education and community life.
ELIGIBILITY: Faith-based and community organizations may apply. Only organizations with 501(c)(3) status with the IRS are eligible. Further eligibility on website.
AWARD: Varies
DEADLINE: Ongoing
The Kroger Co. Foundation
SUMMARY: The Kroger Co. Foundation was established in 1987 to support charitable activities in the communities where Kroger customers and associates live and work. Grants are made to feed the hungry, support breast cancer initiatives, provide disaster relief and assist local grassroots organizations.
ELIGIBILITY: 501(c)(3) organizations.
AWARD: Varies
DEADLINE: Ongoing
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.thekrogerco.com/corpnews/corpnewsinfo_charitablegiving_foundation.htm
Macy’s Foundation
SUMMARY: The Macy’s Foundation focuses its giving primarily in the areas of education, arts/culture, women’s issues, HIV/AIDS and programs to assist youth and minorities.
ELIGIBILITY: Faith-based and community organizations may apply. Applicants must operate in communities where Macy’s does business. See website for further eligibility requirements.
AWARD: Varies
DEADLINE: Ongoing
MCCORMICK TRIBUNE FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES PROGRAM GRANTS
SUMMARY: The McCormick Tribune Foundation Communities Program supports efforts to stimulate local philanthropy and improve community life through collaborative partnerships in communities nationwide. The foundation helps to support projects that address journalism and community strengthening efforts.
DEADLINE: Ongoing
WEB SITE: www.mccormicktribune.org/programs.aspx