Milwaukee Grantees
Black-Owned Businesses & Nonprofits in Milwaukee
Ghetto Mantras
Ghetto Mantras is an all-embracing wellness community comprised of uplifting online content, wellness experiences and self-care packages.
Gevonchai Hudnall-Vogel
Arielle & Brandon
Twisted Plants
Twisted Plants is a vegan quick service restaurant, specializing in burgers, shakes and other delicious comfort foods.
The Community
The Community helps improve the outcomes of how we prevent and respond to crime by showcasing and fostering the successes, humanity, and agency of people with criminal records and equipping them to be as prepared as possible upon release.
Shannon Ross
Los Angeles Grantees
Black-led Nonprofits in Los Angeles
Syd Stewart
Better Youth, Inc.
Better Youth offer skills training and workforce development that help foster and system-impacted youth gain employment and education opportunities through pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship pathways..
Dustin Young
Our Own
Our Own creates wellness spaces in under-resourced schools; addressing the need for mental health resources and safe spaces for students from TK-12 and decreasing the number of youth suicides in their service areas.
Yuri Williams
A Future SuperHero And Friends
A Future SuperHero And Friends provides essential supportive services, emergency services, and diversion to animals, houseless, veterans, elderly, men, women, disabled, ill and children; helping them return to stable, permanent homes as quickly as possible.
Black-Owned Businesses in Los Angeles
Shequeta Smith
Shero Games
Shero Games is a female-led gaming company that helps women and girls of color find and play games with characters that are made in their likeness.
Joe and Celia Ward-Wallace
South LA Cafe
South LA Cafe is a community coffee shop, market, and cultural center that helps South Central LA residents eradicate hunger by providing access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food.
Indianapolis Grantees
Black-Owned Businesses & Black-led Nonprofits in Indianapolis
Kionna Walker
Next Great Architects
Next Great Architects is a creative STEM program that helps students reinforce academic standards and boost confidence, problem-solving skills, public speaking, and collaboration skills while having fun using their imagination through the exploration of architecture.
Gisele Garraway
THRIVEfunds
THRIVEfunds is an online philanthropic platform that helps impact-minded donors fight poverty with direct resource investments in U.S. working families.
Alan & Mali Bacon
GANGGANG
GANGGANG is a multidimensional, equity-centered arts organization that amplifies and financially supports creatives of color to help make our city more equitable, vibrant, and connected.
New Orleans Grantees
Black-led Nonprofits in New Orleans
Janitza Vasquez
One Happy Mama
One Happy Mama is a non-profit that helps young mothers create a happy healthy life through sisterhood, accountability, and support.
Larry Irvin
Brothers Empowered to Teach
Brothers Empowered to Teach is a teacher training program that helps Black men enter the education field through an innovative and culturally responsive curriculum.
Touré Folkes
Turning Tables (NOLA)
Turning Tables is a workforce development program that helps Black and Brown beverage industry professionals break systemic barriers to career advancement with a hands-on approach grounded in love and community.
Black-Owned Businesses in New Orleans
DeShaunya Ware
Ase Learning Academy
Ase Learning Academy is a child development center that cultivates a culturally responsive Montessori community approach in early learning by providing access to more early childhood education seats to New Orleans families 7 days a week from 6am-11:00pm.
Steve Canal + Enitan Bereola
FLOURYSH
FLOURYSH is an eCommerce platform that helps consumers who are looking to support Black owend brands do so with over 250 brands and 6000 products including universally loved categories that are perfect for any personal shopping, holiday gifting and/or essential needs that would normally take weeks to discover all in one click of a button.
Grantees from Across the USA
Black-Owned Businesses Across the USA
Tiffany Henry
Cool Crayations (Dallas)
www.etsy.com/shop/CoolCrayations
Cool Crayations is a box of fun shaped crayons that helps the adults in a kids' village replace the time a kid spends on electronic devices with a screen-free, personalized coloring experience.
Michelle Mokone
Mo's Crib LLC (New Jersey)
Mo’s Crib provides homemade homeware products from recycled or environmentally non-invasive material; helping conscious consumers source environmentally friendly products.
Brianna Hairlson
Bri's Dance Place (Gary, Indiana)
Bri’s Dance Place is a multi-generational dance studio that combats the sexualization of children by focusing on age-appropriate choreography, costumes, and music in a safe and loving environment.
Kwaku Agyemang
BrownMill Company (Newark, NJ)
BrownMill Company is a fashion brand that helps environmentally conscious consumers access quality, eco-friendly garments.
Donna Dobson
Gemini Naturals (Maryland)
Gemini Naturals provides a non-toxic hair color solution that helps women with textured hair avoid the long-lasting, negative effects of traditional hair dye with plant-based temporary hair color gel.
Toria Edmonds-Howell
North 24th Home (Richmond, VA)
North 24th Home is a brand of safe, nontoxic household cleaning essentials that helps empower Black families to take care of their homes while reducing their family’s exposure to harmful chemicals by leveraging the power of natural ingredients from across the African diaspora.
Evan Leaphart
Kiddie Kredit (Miami)
Kiddie Kredit is a mobile app that helps educate kids of all ages about credit before it becomes an issue via learning modules in-app and an actual credit card for teens.
Trey Thaxton
Goldmill Co. (Tulsa)
Goldmill is a lifestyle brand that helps Black entrepreneurs share, learn, and connect with premium educational and inspirational content.
Black-led Nonprofits Across the USA
Brandon Fleming
Veritas School of Social Sciences (Atlanta)
Veritas School of Social Sciences is an academic institution that helps Black youth close the opportunity, achievement, and inequity gaps with access to a variety of programs that provide high-quality academic and professional training.
Shawon Jackson
Vocal Justice (Oakland, CA)
Vocal Justice is a leadership education program that helps Black and Brown youth advocate for social change through storytelling
Veronica Shanklin
Dementia Care Warriors (Dallas, TX)
Dementia Care Warriors offers a comprehensive suite of innovative resources and support to help dementia family caregivers thrive in their role.
Ijeoma Kola
Cohort Sistas (South Bend, IN)
Cohort Sistas is a mobile app and digital community that helps Black women and nonbinary scholars overcome structural, financial, and socioemotional barriers in doctoral education by providing culturally-responsive resources and programs designed exclusively with their unique experiences and values in mind.
Danielle Leverett
Our 3 Memorial Foundation, Inc. (Jackson, MS)
Our 3 Memorial Foundation, Inc. is a trauma-informed program that helps survivors of domestic violence safely curate a life free of abuse with safe and affordable housing.
Whitney Beatty
Supernova Women (National)
Supernova Women offers education, support, networking, and advocacy that helps people of color have a presence in the cannabis industry.
Walla Elsheikh
Birthright AFRICA (New York City)
Birthright Africa is a collaborative ecosystem and community that helps youth and young adults of African descent fulfill their authentic leadership and entrepreneurial aspirations through heritage exploration that culminates with a free life-changing trip to Africa.
Follow our journey.
Boldly creating change for Black businesses and organizations.
Our Partners
Join the JLH Fund Mailing List
Be the first to know when our next round of grantee applications open.