Eligibility & Requirements

Business Type

• MUST be a Black-Owned Business.

• Applicant MUST be an existing business entity (C-Corp, S-Corp, or LLC) with a Federal Tax ID (EIN).

  • At this time, we allow applications from all industries excluding technology.

 

Business Location

• Business Entity MUST be located in the City of Cincinnati. Grant requests from outside city limits will NOT be considered.

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Application Responses

• Due to volume of applications and bandwidth, we do not provide feedback for non-grant awardees.

 

Special Consideration will be granted to

• Businesses that can show matching funds from other sources