The Foundation also made 45 renewal grants totaling $1,340,000 to organizations for programs that were funded in 2021-22.

Grants made in July:

Children’s Theatre, $250,000.  The Children’s Theatre will purchase and renovate the historic Emery Theatre in Over The Rhone, providing the organization with expanded programming opportunities for young people and additional revenue-generation sources while preserving a Cincinnati landmark.

Best Point Education & Behavioral Health – CATS program, $25,000.  Best Point assumed the CATS (Cincinnati Arts and Technology) program from Cincinnati Public Schools and is leveraging it to create more pathways for at risk high schoolers that increase their chances of graduation, employability and/or post-secondary education.

Best Point Education & Behavioral Health – Nutrition program, $25,000.  The Culinary Education and Nutrition program empowers at-risk students by equipping them with skills for success in the field of culinary arts while promoting a healthy lifestyle.

MindPeace, $25,000.  School-based stakeholder-selected partnerships are key to helping schools identify the mental health needs of their students and assisting in the selection of community partners to provide quality, affordable and accessible in-school therapy services. 

ProKids, $100,000.  A $28 million campaign features three pillars: the build out of expanded office and programming space in a new and more convenient downtown location, the creation of a sustainability fund, and a significant expansion of the volunteer CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) program which the foundation has supported with annual grants since 2007.  

Santa Maria Community Services, $100,000.  A $13 million campaign will enable the replacement of outdated facilities scattered throughout the neighborhood with a single, new facility that will allow for expanded youth-oriented programming, partner organization services, and administrative offices.

In addition to the above grants, the Foundation made 45 renewal grants totaling $1,340,000 to organizations for programs that had been funded in 2021-22:

American National Red Cross, $20,000

Art Academy of Cincinnati, $25,000

Artworks, $30,000

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati, $35,000

Camp Joy Foundation, $30,000

Cancer Family Care, $25,000

Churches Active in Northside (CAIN), $20,000

Cincinnati Landmark Productions (Madcap), $25,000

Cincinnati Nature Center, $25,000

Cincinnati Observatory Center, $20,000

Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation, $50,000

Cincinnati Works, $30,000

City Gospel Mission, $30,000

Civic Garden Center, $25,000

Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, $25,000

Community Meal Center, $20,000

Boy Scouts of America, Dan Beard Council, $35,000

DePaul Cristo Rey High School, $35,000

Down Syndrome Association, $20,000

Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, $50,000

Envision Children, $25,000

Every Child Succeeds, $25,000

First Tee of Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky, $25,000

Found House Interfaith Housing Hospitality, $30,000

Gateway Community College Foundation, $20,000

Grant Us Hope, $30,000

Hamilton County Parks Foundation (Great Parks), $25,000

Hearing, Speech and Deaf Center, $25,000

Keep Cincinnati Beautiful, $30,000

Ken Anderson Alliance, $25,000

Kennedy Heights Arts Center, $30,000

LaSoupe, $50,000

Last Mile Food Rescue, $75,000

Library Foundation of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, $75,000

Madisonville Education & Assistance Center, $20,000

Matthew 25 Ministries, $35,000

Northern Kentucky Community Action Coalition, $25,000

Parachute Special Advocates Butler County, $35,000

Peaslee Neighborhood Center, $20,000

Prevention First (Coalition for a Drug Free Cincinnati), $20,000

Urban League of Southwestern Ohio, $25,000

WAVE Foundation, $25,000

Women Helping Women, $25,000

WordPlay, $20,000

YMCA of Greater Cincinnati, $25,000