May 13, 2025
CINCINNATI – The Scripps Howard Fund, a public charity established by The E.W. Scripps Company, is providing more than a half million dollars in grants to nonprofit Cincinnati area organizations. The grants, totaling $508,000, will benefit 25 organizations that support literacy or basic needs.
The Fund is based in Cincinnati, where The E.W. Scripps Company is headquartered. The Fund invests hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in Greater Cincinnati nonprofits that focus on childhood literacy and children living in poverty. This supports its mission to create a better-informed world.
The literacy organizations benefitting from this year’s grants include:
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati
• Crayons to Computers
• Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
• Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
• Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio
• The Literacy Lab
• Letters 2 Literacy
• Oak Hills Alumni & Educational Foundation
• Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc.
• Queen City Book Bank
• UpSpring
• Santa Maria Community Services
• Brighton Center
• Public Library Foundation of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
Grant funding is provided to assist in the following areas: Implementing new, or expanding existing, childhood literacy programs; purchasing books, materials or new technology for childhood literacy programs; creation or expansion of summer reading programs to address summer reading loss; supporting childhood literacy programs that help students who read below grade level or have trouble reading; and building home libraries for children of low socioeconomic status.
The basic needs organizations benefitting from this year’s include:
• Beech Acres
• Bethany House Services
• Center for Respite Care
• Inter Parish Ministry
• La Soupe
• Lighthouse Youth & Family Services
• Our Daily Bread
• Sam Hubbard Foundation
• Shelterhouse
• Society of St. Vincent de Paul, District Council of Cincinnati
• Welcome House of Northern Kentucky, Inc
Learn more about the Scripps Howard Fund’s Greater Cincinnati Grants.
Media contact: Molly Miossi, The E.W. Scripps Company, 513-977-3713, molly.miossi@scripps.com
About the Scripps Howard Fund
The Scripps Howard Fund , a public charity established by The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP), is dedicated to creating informed and engaged communities through journalism education, childhood literacy and local causes. At the crossroads of the classroom and the newsroom, the Fund is a leader in supporting journalism through award-winning journalism education programs; scholarships, internships and fellowships; funding to advance diversity and inclusion; and support of First Amendment causes. The Scripps Howard Awards stand as one of the industry’s top honors for outstanding journalism. The Fund’s annual “If You Give a Child a Book …” childhood literacy campaign has distributed thousands of new books to children in need across the nation. The Fund partners with Scripps brands to create awareness of local issues and support organizations that build thriving communities. The Scripps Howard Fund administers funding for the Scripps Howard Foundation, a private foundation established in 1962 to advance charitable causes important to The E.W. Scripps Company and the Scripps and Howard families.
