Guide to Grant Seeking

Local Foundations

The Arthur Foundation (Illinois)
The Arthur Foundation is committed to the tradition of community service first established by Arthur MacNeal at the turn of the 20th century. The Foundation strives to be an agent of positive change through its support of high quality, leading-edge programs in education, health care, and medical research.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island
BCBSRI funds projects and initiatives that are closely aligned with their corporate vision: To improve the quality of life of Rhode Islanders by improving their health. Funded initiatives must be aligned with at least one of the following areas of focus: Access to healthcare for uninsured/underserved populations, disparities in health status for minority populations, access to oral health care, health promotion and prevention.

Brandywine Health & Wellness Foundation (Pennsylvania)
The Brandywine Health & Wellness Foundation has as its major grant making focus increasing access to medical, dental, and mental health services for residents of central and western Chester County, removing insurance and language barriers.

The California Endowment
The California Endowment is a private, statewide health foundation that was created to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians.

Campbell Hoffman Foundation
The Campbell Hoffman Foundation funding priorities include the areas of oral health, mental health, and pharmaceutical access initiatives within certain geographic boundaries of specific Virginia counties.

Caring for Colorado Foundation
Grants in the funding priority area called "Oral Health Improvement" seek to address the need for better access to oral services for the underserved. Their Oral Health Improvement Program has two goals: 1) Increase the long- term capacity of the oral health safety net to meet the needs of the underserved in Colorado, and 2) Enable a new generation of Colorado children to be free of the devastating consequences of oral disease.

Carlisle Area Health & Wellness Foundation (Pennsylvania)
The Foundation has become a stronger catalyst for improved healthcare by supplying funding for new services, existing systems and program expansions. The Foundation fosters hope in the hearts of thousands whose futures are more promising thanks to the help they receive.

The Colorado Health Foundation
The Colorado Health Foundation brings people, organizations and resources together to improve the health and health care of all people in Colorado.

Connecticut Health Foundation
The Connecticut Health Foundation is the state's largest independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving health through policy research, technical assistance, and grant making in areas of oral health, children's mental health and racial and ethnic health disparities.

Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation
The Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation promotes activities towards the improvement of oral health care in Colorado. The Foundation mission is to sponsor programs that prevent dental disease and advance the science and practice of dentistry.

Delta Dental Plan of Kansas Foundation
The Foundation is interested in raising public awareness of oral health issues and encourages applicants to make this a part of any funded project through media communications and community participation.

Endowment for Health
The Endowment for Health foundation funds efforts to improve the (oral) health and well-being of New Hampshire residents, especially those who are most vulnerable and currently underserved.

FISA Foundation
FISA Foundation's mission is to build a culture of respect and improve the quality of life for three populations in southwestern Pennsylvania: women, girls, and people with disabilities. Emphasis is given to addressing gaps and unmet needs in the community.

Foundation for Community Health (Connecticut)
The Foundation for Community Health is dedicated to improving the health of its neighbors in the Greater Harlem Valley and the Litchfield Hills. Grant making in the area of oral health focuses on a more in-depth assessment of the prevalence of disease as well as opportunities for increasing community awareness of oral health and its vital role in one’s overall health and productivity.

The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts, Inc.
To achieve its goal to improve the health of those who live or work in Central Massachusetts, the Foundation is focusing its grant making and other activities by targeting disparities in health status and access to care, with particular attention given to caregivers, the working poor, and underserved children, youth and elders.

The Health Trust (California)
The Health Trust is leading the community to advance wellness in order to transform Silicon Valley into the healthiest region in the country. Their programs, partnerships, collaborations and grant making activities are strategically focused on supporting those individuals and communities that do not have access to the health-related services and resources they need.

Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation
The Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation (ILCHF) has a single mission: to ensure that every child in Illinois has access to affordable and quality health care. As such, its grant making is designed to close the gap between children who have access to care and those who are underserved.

Irvine Health Foundation
The Irvine Health Foundation’s goal is to improve the health - consisting of physical, mental and emotional well-being - of the residents of Orange County, California.

Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc.
Methodist Healthcare Ministries provides care to the underserved through health and human services and programs that it owns and operates, and through financial support of established organizations that are already effectively fulfilling the needs of the underserved.

John Muir/Mt. Diablo Community Health Fund (California)
The John Muir/Mt. Diablo Community Health Fund awards grants to community-based programs and strategic initiatives that aim to make an impact on challenges and circumstances that adversely affect the health of uninsured and underserved families, children and youth, seniors and other adults.

Oral Health Foundation (Massachusetts)
The Oral Health Foundation is dedicated to substantially improving the oral health, and therefore the quality of life, of the residents in the areas served by DSM and its subsidiaries.

Osteopathic Heritage Foundations (Ohio)
Consistent with this mission, the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations fund projects and programs to improve community health and quality of life and to advance osteopathic healthcare through support of osteopathic medical education and research.

Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust (California)
The Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust is dedicated to building a healthier community in the greater Pajaro Valley. The Trust provides grants for projects that advance our mission to improve the health and quality of life for all people of the greater Pajaro Valley.

QueensCare (California)
QueensCare established the Charitable Division - its grant making program - to support nonprofit agencies engaged in community health care serving low income, uninsured residents of Los Angeles.

Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon
Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon supports programs and research designed to broaden health coverage for all children, improve knowledge and understanding of what kids need to be healthy, and reduces social and cultural barriers that impede their ability to be healthy and successful.

Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust conducts grant making activity exclusively in North Carolina. It is administered through two divisions: The health care division and the poor and needy division.

The Rhode Island Foundation
The Foundation identifies through grant opportunities both the best of Rhode Island that needs preserving and the challenges that must be meet to make Rhode Island better.

Saint David’s Community Health Foundation (Texas)
The Saint David’s Community Health Foundation grants money to non-profit organizations working to improve community health. Where significant gaps in community services exist, they create new programs designed around community collaborations.

St. Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland Ohio
In keeping with its mission and vision, the work of the Saint Luke's Foundation focuses on developing and maintaining healthy communities. Their efforts are directed to three specific areas of interest: Health and Healthcare, Human Services, Neighborhood Empowerment.

St. Luke’s Health Initiatives (Arizona)
St. Luke’s Health Initiatives provide funding to support strength-based community development and capacity building, and demonstrate its power to improve practice and outcomes in community health as well as providing support for system change to improve health service delivery and health outcomes.

Sierra Health Foundation
Sierra Health Foundation is a private, independent philanthropy supporting health and health-related activities in a 26-county region of northern California.

Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton (Ohio)
The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton's interests encompass the broad areas of health, education, and social services. Within these areas, the Foundation strives to fund innovative and effective programs that exemplify its Mission and Guiding Principles.

United Methodist Health Ministry Fund
The Health Fund works to achieve its mission primarily through grants made to nonprofit organizations working to improve the health, healing, and wholeness of Kansans.

Virginia Health Care Foundation
The Virginia Health Care Foundation supports innovative ideas that bring local solutions to local problems, encourages public and private organizations to work together to make health care more available, and provides funding to Virginia's communities to build sustainable networks of care.

Washington Dental Service Foundation
Their mission is to promote the oral heath of the public, sponsoring and innovating programs for the advancement of oral health.

Washington Square Health Foundation, Inc. (Illinois)
The Washington Square Health Foundation, Inc. grants funds in order to promote and maintain access to adequate healthcare for all people in the Chicagoland area regardless of race, sex, creed or financial need. The Foundation meets this goal through its grants for medical and nursing education, medical research and direct healthcare services.

Williamsburg Community Health Foundation (Virginia)
The Williamsburg Community Health Foundation is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of greater Williamsburg and surrounding counties through improved access to affordable and quality health care, promotion of healthy lifestyles and prevention efforts.