The Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley has a variety of grant opportunities with different due dates throughout the year. Grant criteria and submission instructions are listed under individual grant descriptions below.
Click the dropdown boxes to read full details on each grant opportunity. For information on navigating our grant portal and more information about our grants process, please visit the Grantseeker Resources and Tutorials section at the bottom of this page.
Apply for a Grant
The Community Foundation is not accepting applications at this time.
Please note that funding priorities for the Western Reserve Health Foundation, Trumbull Memorial Health Foundation, and William Swanston Charitable Fund have been updated. A summary of the updates is available HERE and each fund's Request For Proposals is available in its dropdown.
All open applications can be started and completed in our online grant portal here.
Update: As of August 6, 2025, the applicant dashboard in our grant software has been updated to include a new look and easier navigation; there is nothing applicants or grantees need to do for this change, but for help navigating the updated portal, check out the tutorials here.
If you have questions about our grant opportunities, contact CFMV staff at grants@cfmv.org.
Please note that draft applications left in the grant portal for 18 months will be marked "Abandoned" and will no longer be available to edit.
Grantseeker Resources and Tutorials
Grantseeker's Guide
All applicants must review the Grantseeker’s Guide before submitting a request to the Community Foundation or its affiliated foundations. The guide contains information on eligibility, the application process, grant conditions and the non-discrimination policy for grantees.
Create an Account
If you’re submitting an application to us for the first time since we launched our new grant portal in Spring 2021, you’ll need to create a new account. We recommend you do this well in advance of an application deadline.
It’s a simple process, if you start with a few things prepared in advance:
- Contact information for the point person, and a username that is a frequently used email address (We will use this email address to communicate with you on your grant status.)
- Contact information for your organization, including your EIN/Tax ID number
- Contact information for your organization’s Executive Director
- Information on your leadership team and the equitable practices of your organization
Our online grants portal will allow you to track the status of your application, as well as file grant reports from your account, and you’ll be able to save, edit and submit applications.
Many of our grant rounds require different documentation, so depending on your organization’s status and the specific guidelines for the application you are working on, you may also be required to upload specific documents.
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Grant Glossary
We recognize that numerous terms and phrases are used, particularly in our grant language, that you may not be familiar with or may have a different interpretation of than we do. In order to provide clarity to our words, we’ve provided definitions or explanations.
Video Tutorials
Submitting an application through our grant portal
How to copy answers across multiple applications:
Contact Us
If your grant application was denied, or you have any questions about the shifts to our grantmaking efforts or any of the above funding opportunities, contact Mae Medore at MMedore@CFMV.org to line up a meeting to review your request. We’ll provide as much feedback as we can to help improve your application.