SitemapIn its final grant cycle of 2024, the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley and its supporting organizations awarded $634,000 to 34 local nonprofits.
Through its General Grant, the foundation awarded $223,500 to 27 organizations. The Trumbull Memorial Health Foundation, which focuses on programs to improve health in Trumbull County, awarded four grants totaling $124,400. The Western Reserve Health Foundation, which supports similar work in Mahoning County, awarded seven grants totaling $100,000. The William Swanston Charitable Fund made grants totaling $86,500 to seven organizations.
In addition, the Hospice Trust of Trumbull County awarded $100,000 to Ohio Living Home Health & Hospice to launch a new holistic health program for its clients.
The fourth-quarter grants bring the total amount awarded last year by the foundation to $3.3 million in competitive grant awards, an increase of more than $1 million from the previous year.
Here are the fourth-quarter grant awards:
- Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley
- Axxess Family Services: $5,000 for the foster grandparent AmeriCorps program.
- Axxess Family Services: $5,000 for the Retired Senior Volunteer Program.
- Boston Avenue Neighbor Association: $6,000 to support the Happy Place Sanctuary.
- Cadence Care Network: $10,000 to support the addition of a career exploration coach at the Cadence
- Coffeehouse & Creperie.
- Compass Family and Community Services: $20,000 for the senior guardianship program.
- Down Syndrome Association of the Valley: $5,000 for health and wellness programs.
- Dylan’s House: $5,000 for operating support.
- Fairhaven Foundation: $10,000 for its community experiences program.
- Honeycomb Arts and Wellness Collective: $5,000 to create a new website and marketing plan.
- Loop Youngstown: $10,000 for operating support.
- Malone University: $2,800 for its textbook library.
- Mercy Health: $10,000 for the Stepping Out program.
- Northeast Ohio Adoption Services: $9,000 for operating support.
- OCCHA: $4,200 to modernize organizational policies.
- Ohio Urban Renaissance: $15,000 for its Initiative for College Academics Now program.
- River Valley Organizing: $4,000 for operating support.
- Scholastics Art and Writing – Youngstown State University: $5,000 to provide arts supplies and support to high school students.
- Shepherds of All God’s Children Learning Center: $10,000 for pre- and after-school programs.
- Smith Township: $5,000 for a new playground at the site of the former Maple Ridge Elementary.
- Students Motivated by the Arts: $10,000 for arts education programs.
- Kelly Pavlik Charitable Organization: $5,000 for operating support.
- Trumbull County Historical Society: $20,000 for first phase construction of the Museum of Science Fiction & Fantasy Arts.
- Ursuline Sisters Mission: $10,000 for its HIV/AIDS ministry.
- Warren Heritage Center: $5,000 to install new exhibits at the Kinsman House.
- Youngstown Area Goodwill Industries: $10,000 to implement findings from its workforce-focused community needs assessment.
- Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation: $12,500 for the neighborhood cleanup program.
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