The Jean Harry and Brenda Fuchs Family Foundation concentrates its giving on Greater Cleveland cultural institutions and a small set of community health/support nonprofits. Grants are weighted toward performing and visual arts (including major institutions and neighborhood arts groups) while also funding local patient-support services. The foundation favors repeat, multi-year backing of a handful of organizations rather than broad, one-time distributions.
Concentrated giving with relatively large grants to a small number of repeat grantees; mixes flagship institution support with targeted neighborhood arts and patient-support organizations.
A repeated pattern defines the Jean Harry and Brenda Fuchs Family Family Foundation: it backs a small circle of Greater Cleveland institutions year after year, with especially large commitments to arts groups and local patient-support services. The clearest example is Stewart's Caring Place, which received $75,000 in 2023, 2024, and 2025. On the arts side, the foundation made $100,000 to The Musicial Arts Association in 2023, and continued supporting groups such as The Cleveland Orchestra and Heights Art in later years. Those grants point to a funder that favors established local organizations over broad, one-off giving. The mix also includes neighborhood-based cultural groups such as Kaboon Collective and Western Reserve Playhouse, along with community health and support organizations in Northeast Ohio. Even the smaller gifts fit the same pattern, reaching local arts education and civic nonprofits rather than spreading across many regions or cause areas. Across the recent record, the foundation’s grantmaking looks concentrated, relationship-based, and rooted in Cleveland-area cultural life and nearby support services.
Arts funding is the foundation’s clearest line of giving. In 2024 and 2025, it gave $50,000 each year to The Cleveland Orchestra, while Heights Art received $50,000 in 2023 and $60,000 in both 2024 and 2025. The foundation also supported Kaboon Collective with $31,250 in 2023 and 2024, then $31,500 in 2025, showing sustained backing for neighborhood arts work. Community health support is another visible area. Stewart's Caring Place received $75,000 in each of three consecutive years, indicating a strong local commitment to services for cancer patients and families. Smaller grants extend into arts education and civic participation, including $2,500 to the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2023, 2024, and 2025, plus $5,000 to Western Reserve Playhouse in 2025.
Typical grant size is mid-sized rather than uniform: the 25th percentile is $3,750, the median is $31,250, and the 75th percentile is $55,000. The recent record shows clear repeat funding across multiple years, especially for the same local organizations receiving annual support. The foundation is a family foundation, not an individual-giving vehicle, and it does not make program-related investments or grants to individuals. Its recent grants are almost entirely local, with Ohio recipients accounting for 96% of grants and only one recent grant outside the state.
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Most grants fall between $4K and $55K, with a median of $31K.
25th Percentile
$4K
Median
$31K
75th Percentile
$55K
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Notable grantees: Stewart's Caring Place, Heights Arts, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Musical Arts Association, Kaboon Collective
The giving footprint is strongly centered in Northeast Ohio. Cleveland and Cleveland Heights appear repeatedly, along with Beachwood, Akron, Fairlawn, Twinsburg, and Richfield. Among recent grants, Cleveland-area recipients dominate, including organizations in Cleveland and Cleveland Heights, while Akron also appears more than once. Outside Ohio, there is a single recent grant to Fort Worth, Texas. The recipient country distribution is entirely U.S.-based, with 23 grants in the United States.
Its recent grants cluster around Greater Cleveland arts institutions and local support services. Arts recipients include orchestras, concert presenters, neighborhood arts groups, and an arts college. A separate set of grants supports a local center serving cancer patients and families.
Yes. Several recipients appear in consecutive years, including Stewart's Caring Place in 2023, 2024, and 2025; Heights Art in 2023, 2024, and 2025; The Cleveland Orchestra in 2024 and 2025; and the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The 25th percentile grant is $3,750, the median is $31,250, and the 75th percentile is $55,000. Recent gifts range from $2,500 to $100,000, but the center of the distribution sits in the low-to-mid tens of thousands.
Very focused. The foundation describes its scope as local, and 96% of grants went to recipients in Ohio. Recent grants were concentrated in Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, Akron, Fairlawn, Twinsburg, Richfield, and Beachwood, with one recent grant to Fort Worth, Texas.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STEWART'S CARING PLACE STEWART'S CARING PLACE | FAIRLAWN, OH | $75,000 | 2025 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| HEIGHTS ART HEIGHTS ART | CLEVELANDHEIGHTS, OH | $60,000 | 2025 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | CLEVELAND, OH | $50,000 | 2025 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| KABOON COLLECTIVE KABOON COLLECTIVE | CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH | $31,500 | 2025 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| GRACE HOUSE GRACE HOUSE | AKRON, OH | $12,500 | 2025 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUM HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUM | TWINSBURG, OH | $10,000 | 2025 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| WESTERN RESERVE PLAYHOUSE WESTERN RESERVE PLAYHOUSE | RICHFIELD, OH | $5,000 | 2025 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART | CLEVELAND, OH | $2,500 | 2025 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| INMOTION INMOTION | BEACHWOOD, OH | $2,500 | 2025 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| AKRON MARATHON AKRON MARATHON | AKRON, OH | $2,500 | 2025 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| STEWART'S CARING PLACE STEWART'S CARING PLACE | FAIRLAWN, OH | $75,000 | 2024 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| HEIGHTS ART HEIGHTS ART | CLEVELANDHEIGHTS, OH | $60,000 | 2024 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | CLEVELAND, OH | $50,000 | 2024 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| KABOON COLLECTIVE KABOON COLLECTIVE | CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH | $31,250 | 2024 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| GRACE HOUSE GRACE HOUSE | AKRON, OH | $12,500 | 2024 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUM HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUM | TWINSBURG, OH | $10,000 | 2024 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART | CLEVELAND, OH | $2,500 | 2024 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| THE MUSICIAL ARTS ASSOCIATION THE MUSICIAL ARTS ASSOCIATION | CLEVELAD, OH | $100,000 | 2023 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| STEWART'S CARING PLACE STEWART'S CARING PLACE | FAIRLAWN, OH | $75,000 | 2023 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| HEIGHTS ART HEIGHTS ART | CLEVELANDHEIGHTS, OH | $50,000 | 2023 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| KABOON COLLECTIVE KABOON COLLECTIVE | CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH | $31,250 | 2023 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| HOPE FARM INC HOPE FARM INC | FORT WORTH, TX | $2,500 | 2023 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
| CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART | CLEVELAND, OH | $2,500 | 2023 | DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE |
HEIGHTS ART HEIGHTS ART
$60,000DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
$50,000DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE
KABOON COLLECTIVE KABOON COLLECTIVE
$31,500DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUM HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUM
$10,000DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE
WESTERN RESERVE PLAYHOUSE WESTERN RESERVE PLAYHOUSE
$5,000DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE
AKRON MARATHON AKRON MARATHON
$2,500DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE
HEIGHTS ART HEIGHTS ART
$60,000DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
$50,000DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE
KABOON COLLECTIVE KABOON COLLECTIVE
$31,250DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUM HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUM
$10,000DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE
DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE
HEIGHTS ART HEIGHTS ART
$50,000DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE
KABOON COLLECTIVE KABOON COLLECTIVE
$31,250DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE
HOPE FARM INC HOPE FARM INC
$2,500DONEE'S STATED PURPOSE