Grants for Nonprofit Human Services

Catholic Human Services Foundation Grant

The mission of the Catholic Human Services Foundation is to promote and enhance the quality of life to those in need. To achieve this goal, the Foundation’s primary focus will be to support Catholic organizations providing health and human services; including hospitals, medical research facilities, innovative educational programs and specialized programs for the disabled. The Foundation also directs its resources toward other worthy and charitable causes.

Grant Range

Typically, Grants are given from $500-$15,000, or at the discretion of the Foundation Board of Directors.

Grants are primarily for supplies and equipment .

The DSF Charitable Foundation is the charitable-giving organization of the David Scaife family. The Foundation seeks to promote excellence in three program areas: health, human services, and education. The grant program focuses on southwestern Pennsylvania, primarily Pittsburgh, where the Foundation is based.

DSF Charitable Foundation: Human Services Grant

DSF Charitable Foundation support in human services has varied widely by grant size and project type. Grants have ranged from $5,000 to $1,000,000. Projects supported have ranged from childcare for low-income families (Jubilee Soup Kitchen) to construction of an end-of-life-care residence (Anderson Manor of Family Hospice and Palliative Care). The Foundation has made substantial commitments in job and life-skills training for persons with disabilities, mentoring and other youth-development programming, summer activities for children, and senior care.

A model of excellence in care for medically fragile children is Child's Way, a program of the Children's Home of Pittsburgh. Child's Way is the first prescribed-pediatric-daycare program in Pennsylvania. The program serves children from birth to eight years of age with complex medical needs that require nursing care (but not hospitalization) and whose parent or parents are unable to stay at home. The Foundation has awarded grants for provision of charitable care and acquisition of equipment.

Representative of the Foundation's efforts to assist persons with disabilities are grants to the Woodlands Foundation for facilities and programming. The Woodlands is a 32-acre site for recreational and therapeutic camping, transitional programs, and weekend retreats for children, teens, and young adults with physical disabilities. Other recipients of Foundation support for persons with disabilities are the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, DePaul School for Hearing and Speech, Westmoreland County Blind Association, Pittsburgh Vision Services, and Timothy Place (a one-of-a-kind housing project for persons with disabilities and their aging caregivers).

The Foundation's commitments in senior care include support for Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh and for the Homeowner Services Program of The Pittsburgh Project. Both organizations help seniors to remain independent and to age in place by providing needed home improvements. Recipients of support for senior care also include the East Liberty Family Health Center's Homebound Elderly Program, which sends a nurse into each participant's home at least twice monthly to provide basic check-ups and care (e.g., blood pressure and medication checks). For seniors residing in long-term-care facilities because they are unable to stay at home, the Foundation has provided support to the Faith-Based Network, a regional business alliance of fifteen non-profit, faith-affiliated, long-term-care facilities. The goals of the Faith-Based Network include leveraging buying power for best pricing from vendors, collaborating on best clinical practices, and developing business opportunities that generate new streams of revenue, lower costs, or enhance programs and services.

NYCT: Healthy Lives

We help providers deliver efficient, patient-focused, equitable, and cost-effective health and behavioral health services to all New Yorkers. We support projects that develop the skills and independence of four groups of people with special needs: the elderly, the blind or visually impaired, children and youth with disabilities, and people with developmental disabilities. We also support biomedical research and projects for animal welfare. 

Funding Areas

Health and Behavioral Health

Program goal: to promote an equitable, patient-focused, and cost-effective health and behavioral health care delivery system.

Grants are made to:

• Advocate for successful health care reform implementation to ensure:
• maintenance of a strong and viable health and behavioral health care safety net;
• access to comprehensive and coordinated care for those who remain uninsured or underinsured; and
• availability of screening, early intervention, and referral for effective treatment of disease.
• Build the capacity of New York City’s health, behavioral health, and human service sectors to succeed in a reformed health care system by:
• developing effective skills training for the professional and paraprofessional health care workforce; and
• strengthening financial and information technology systems to allow transition to value-based payments.
• Reduce health disparities between low- and higher-income neighborhoods through investments in disadvantaged communities that:
• improve indoor and outdoor air quality;
• provide safe and inviting parks and open space;
• promote access to affordable and healthy food; and
• engage residents in efforts to encourage physical activity and healthy diets.
• Foster the independence of people with mental illness and substance use histories by:
• expanding innovative programs that offer clinical care as well as practical services, such as housing, employment, and education; and
• advocating for expansion of participant-led or informed service models that are sustainable and effective.

People With Special Needs

The Trust has a coordinated approach that reflects the common challenges and opportunities for four groups of people with special needs: the elderly, children and youth with disabilities, people with blindness and visual disabilities, and people with developmental disabilities. We support projects that target low-income individuals and communities.

Grants are made to:

• Make New York City communities—especially those that are under-resourced—accessible, welcoming, and inclusive for people with special needs by:
• supporting research and pilot efforts that demonstrate these principles; and
• ensuring that laws that fund services and expand opportunities are implemented fully and effectively.
• Ensure that health, social, education, and vocational services allow people with special needs to live up to their fullest potential by:
• supporting and replicating proven strategies that help these populations receive appropriate education, high quality vocational preparation, and equal employment opportunities;
• testing new approaches that use technology and other innovations to help people with special needs remain as independent as possible; and
• supporting families and caregivers of people with special needs.
• Build the capacity of nonprofits serving people with special needs by:
• ensuring the workforce serving these populations is provided effective training, better career pathways, and increased job quality;
• helping agencies create appropriate financial and management systems, and partnerships to benefit from new financing mechanisms through Medicaid and Medicare.

Welcome

Farmington Bank Community Foundation, which continues the 167 year legacy of the former Farmington Bank, provides financial support to non-profit organizations and community programs that help create opportunities for a better life by focusing on economic opportunities, health, and basic needs for the residents of sixteen communities in Central Connecticut.

Health & Human Services: Basic Needs

Requests to support short-term emergency assistance for households including shelters, food pantries, or household goods. Efforts to decrease homelessness through programs that promote diversion and intervention.

Mission

The Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc. is a private grantmaking foundation dedicated to the enhancement of the quality of life in New York City.

Winter Cycle - Human Services Grants

The human services cycle is open to organizations whose mission and programs serve New York City residents for prevention, change, and education for the improvement of their quality of life.

Crail-Johnson Foundation Grant Making

The Crail-Johnson Foundation (“The Foundation”) has defined itself as a children’s charity, and the vast majority of grant-making is directed toward programs benefiting children, youth and families in the greater Los Angeles area. Proposals which are not relevant to the foundation’s mission and funding priorities will not be considered.

The Foundation provides financial support primarily through grants to public non-profit organizations that are exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue code and are not a private foundation under Section 509(a). The Foundation provides grants for program/project support and general operating support. On occasion, the Foundation will consider grants to support capital projects as well as selected endowments. In addition, the Foundation provides technical assistance to selected community-based initiatives benefiting children and families.

Support is not granted for programs and projects benefiting religious purposes, university level education, research, events recognizing individuals or organizations, political causes or programs attempting to influence legislation. No grants are made directly to individuals.

In general, the Foundation does not consider multi-year grants. Grants are made to nonprofit organizations for one year, and grantees are eligible to reapply each year. However, in general, the Foundation does not provide grants for more than three consecutive years.

The Foundation’s funding supports organizations providing services and programs primarily in Los Angeles County Service Planning Areas (SPA) 4, 6, 7, and 8. The Foundation gives priority to the following target communities: San Pedro, Wilmington, Compton, Watts, Carson, Long Beach and South Los Angeles.

National organizations providing services in these areas are also considered. Occasionally, grants are made to programs and projects that are regional or national in scope.

Funding Priorities

The Crail-Johnson Foundation (Foundation) supports organizations providing services and programs primarily in Los Angeles County Service Planning Areas (SPA) 4, 6, 7, and 8. The Foundation gives priority to the following target communities: San Pedro, Wilmington, Compton, Watts, Carson, Long Beach and South Los Angeles.

The Foundation supports programs as a means to address the long-term well-being of children, youth and community. It is through the support of Education, Human Services and Health that the Foundation hopes to assist in providing children, youth and their families with the tools necessary to build a life of quality. Support is exclusively focused on programs that address the needs of economically, socially and physically disadvantaged children. The Foundation supports both proven approaches and innovative programs aimed at systemic change and provides support for new, continuing, or expanding programs. Programs and services may be school-based, school-linked, or other community-based places. Funding priority is currently given to initiating, continuing or expanding programs in the following areas:

Human Services

Child Abuse and Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment: Comprehensive efforts directed toward the prevention and treatment of family violence including community and educational outreach, counseling and shelter services.

Food Banks, Food Pantries and Food Distribution: Efforts directed toward the collection and distribution of food to relieve hunger in our communities.

Homeless Services: Organizations providing assistance to homeless children, youth and/or their families which may include temporary, short-term and/or long-term housing, and may include programs to assist families with job skills, nutritional education, housing security, parenting skills, among others.

Youth Development/Enrichment: Programs which serve to continue and improve foster care services, juvenile crime prevention and diversion, mentoring, camp activities, recreation and specific populations, in particular developmentally and physically challenged children and youth.

Education

Find the grant page for Education here. 

Health

Find the grant page for Health here.