The Cultivating Inland Empire Latino Opportunity, or CIELO Fund, at the Inland Empire Community Foundation gave $450,000 in its 2025 round of grant awards to 40 organizations serving the region.

This brings the CIELO Fund’s total investment through its grantmaking, research, narrative change initiatives and scholarship program to $1.4 million since it launched in 2022, accounting for nearly 100 grant awards to organizations in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

This year’s grantmaking also included awards in Imperial County for the first time.

“As families across Riverside and San Bernardino continue to face rising costs for essentials like housing, food, child care, elder care and education, the CIELO Fund’s grantmaking this year is intentionally focused on supporting organizations

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