Foundation and Government Support

The Cleveland Orchestra is grateful to the many private foundations and government agencies at the local, state and federal levels, whose grants sustain the Orchestra as a whole or fund specific projects, such as new artistic, educational and capacity building initiatives.

Foundation and Government Honor Roll

View a PDF of the Foundation and Government Honor Roll

Cuyahoga Arts and Culture   Ohio Arts Council   National Endowment for the Arts
   

Foundation and Government Project Sponsors

The Cleveland Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the following foundations and government agencies for their project support of $25,000 or more. Through the leadership of these foundations and government agencies, important new and continuing initiatives are funded to help music make a difference for tomorrow in today’s world.

Community Music Initiative
With the launch of our new Community Music Initiative, The Cleveland Orchestra is
renewing its commitment to all citizens of Northeast Ohio and working to provide
access to orchestral music to more people than ever before. Project supporters
of the Community Music Initiative include:

  • The Abington Foundation
  • Martha Holden Jennings Foundation
  • Surdna Foundation

     
Artistic and Organizational Initiatives
The Cleveland Orchestra’s longstanding commitment to artistic excellence
is admired across the world. Project supporters of important artistic,
organizational and audience development initiatives include:

  • The Cleveland Foundation
  • Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts & Culture
  • GAR Foundation
  • The George Gund Foundation
  • Kulas Foundation
  • The Lerner Foundation
  • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation
  • John P. Murphy Foundation
  • David and Inez Myers Foundation
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • Ohio Arts Council
  • William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Foundation
  • The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation

   
For more information about grants to The Cleveland Orchestra, please
contact the Orchestra's Philanthropy & Advacement Office at 216-231-7521.