While some grants are awarded for primary and secondary education, such grants are normally given to improve educational programs benefiting low income and minority students, most often in the Cleveland Public Schools. The Foundation has adopted a Policy on Annual Funds that tends to curtail such support so that more support may be given to special programs of the arts and cultural institutions and organizations. Generally the amounts granted are comparatively small, but hopefully meaningful. With so many needs, grants are spread rather than concentrated. In considering requests that fall into this category, each program that the Foundation is being asked to support is carefully evaluated as to its impact on the total community.
Support is both for capital and operations.
Rarely does the Foundation award a grant to a church and, if so, there is usually some connection with one of the other categories of grants.