Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Foundation Grant

The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Foundation Grant supports healthcare initiatives in the greater Cleveland area, focusing on medical research, public health promotion, and assistance to local hospitals. The foundation prioritizes grant requests from private sector organizations and favors projects with a duration of three years or less. It does not fund national campaigns, individual scholarships, or endowment contributions. Eligible projects must align with the foundation's commitment to enhancing health services for all, particularly low-income populations.

A charitable trust dedicated to the support and advancement of healthcare, primarily in the greater Cleveland community.
Foundation Focus
The original Trust Agreement executed on January 17, 1939 placed responsibility on the Board of Managers to distribute the income within the scope of the Foundation's objectives. The Agreement set forth the "General Purposes of the Foundation" as follows:
To promote medical and surgical research and to assist in the acquisition, advancement, and dissemination of knowledge of medicine and surgery, and of means of maintaining health.To initiate and further activities designed to promote public health.To aid hospitals and health institutions in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, that are organized and operated exclusively for public, charitable purposes, by contributions for capital improvements or equipment, or purchase of rare and expensive drugs, or for expenses of operation or maintenance.To improve methods of hospital management and administration.To aid in establishment and support of plans or programs designed to make competent hospital and medical care available to individuals of all classes, especially those of low incomes.
Only grant requests which fall into one of those categories can be considered by the Board at its semi-annual meetings.

Eligibility

The Foundation will make grants with a maximum term of commitment of five years.

Ineligibility

The Foundation does not contribute to national fundraising campaigns or to national charitable organizations.The Foundation does not generally support grant requests for surveys, assessments, studies, planning activities or acquisition of information systems for healthcare organizations.The Foundation does not make grants to any individual for scholarships, grants-in-aid or other personal purposes, no matter how worthy they may be.The Foundation will not make contributions to endowment funds.