Cyrus Eaton Foundation Grant

The Cyrus Eaton Foundation Grant focuses on advancing sustainable environments, social justice, cultural enrichment, and peaceful coexistence. It funds innovative and small nonprofit organizations, primarily in Northeast Ohio and Pugwash, Nova Scotia. The foundation typically distributes $160,000 annually across two funding cycles, with grants ranging from $1,000 to $5,000, and occasionally offers high-impact grants of up to $15,000 for significant projects.

The Cyrus Eaton Foundation seeks to advance sustainable environments, social justice, cultural enrichment, and peaceful coexistence.
We only consider grant proposals for efforts in the following categories:
sustainable environmentssocial justicecultural enrichmentpeaceful coexistence
We typically fund organizations that:
are small or newly-establishedare innovativelack support from larger funders
Funding
The Cyrus Eaton Foundation typically distributes approximately $160,000 over two funding cycles per year. Grants range from $1000 to $5000. In rare circumstances we may be able to consider “High Impact Grants” of $5000 to $15,000.

Eligibility

We only consider applications from nonprofit organizations with a section 501(c)(3) tax status, or from a Registered Canadian Charity.We only consider applicants from Northeast Ohio and Pugwash, Nova Scotia. If your organization falls outside of this geographic scope, no matter how worthwhile it may be, we cannot consider it for funding.In addition, we support:The United States Group of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, which were of paramount importance to Cyrus and Anne Eaton. The historic Thinkers Lodge, where Cyrus Eaton hosted the first Pugwash Conference of Science and World Affairs:Thinkers Lodge Historic Site