Community Health Center Construction Grants - Rebuild Illinois

Note: Applicants must e-mail a signed Letter of Intent on organizational letterhead to apply for these grant funds to the Illinois Department of Public Health, Center for Rural Health and to the Illinois Capital Development Board. Emails must be sent to dph.msdcme@Illinois.gov and copied to CDB.Grants@illinois.gov with the title CHC Letter of Intent. The letter must be sent at least 30 days prior to the application submission deadline. Letters must be received by March 1, 2026.
Community Health Center Construction Grants - Rebuild Illinois
Pursuant to 30 ILCS 766, the Community Health Center Construction Act ("Act"), the Capital Development Board ("CDB") (in cooperation with the Illinois Department of Public Health) is authorized to make grants available to Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and FQHC Look-Alikes which serve, in whole or in part, a designated Medically Underserved Area (“MUA”) or Medically Underserved Population (“MUP”) both as defined in the Act, for health center construction projects.

Eligibility

Allowable projects may include:Purchasing equipmentAcquiring a new physical location for the purpose of delivering health care services, and/orConstructing or renovating new or existing community health center sites.Award Ceiling: $3,000,000.00Eligible Applicants: Others Nonprofit OrganizationsApplicant Eligibility Information Applicants for funding must meet the following requirements:1. Be an FQHC or FQHC Look-Alike as defined by the Community Health Center Construction Act.2. Serve, in whole or in part, a designated Medically Underserved Area (MUA) or Medically Underserved Population (MUP) as defined in the Community Health Center Construction Act.3. Meet requirements for FQHC grantees and Look-Alikes under section 330 of the Public Health Service Act; and4. Offer primary health care services as defined by the Community Health Center Construction Act.A grant agreement will be issued for a maximum contract period of five years. All projects must be operational at the end of the grant term.Modifications will only be allowed by CDB when the requested change is outside the control and foreseeability of the grantee and would not have affected any scoring outcome.

Ineligibility

Subrecipients are not allowed as part of this grant program.Proposed projects, including the project area, project scope, and proposed beneficiaries, supplied in the grant application submitted for funding must not be changed or modified at any time without express written approval by CDB.Any equipment, material, or real property that the grantee purchases or improves with grant funds may not be sold, transferred, encumbered, or otherwise disposed of without prior approval of CDB.