Guide to Grant Seeking

National Foundations

American Dental Association Foundation
As dentistry's premier philanthropic and charitable organization, the ADA Foundation champions health by securing contributions and providing grants for sustainable programs in dental research, education, access to care and assistance for dentists and their families in need.

American Dental Hygienists' Association Institute for Oral Health
The ADHA Institute for Oral Health provides funding for educational scholarships, fellowships, research grants, and community service grants to dental hygienists throughout the United States.

The Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults.

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides grants for projects in the United States and U.S. territories that advance our mission to improve the health and health care of all Americans. They seek to have an impact in their interest areas and to build a partnership of learning among grantees, the Foundation, and ultimately, the greater health care and health policy community.

W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Health programming at the Kellogg Foundation focuses explicitly on improving individual and community health, and improving access to and the quality of health care. Grant making targets communities, health care systems, and public health as centers of change.