Elevance Health Foundation: Maternal and Child Health Grant

The Elevance Health Foundation's Maternal and Child Health Grant supports community-based nonprofit organizations aiming to enhance maternal and infant health outcomes. The foundation prioritizes funding programs that address disparities, improve care access, and promote health throughout the pregnancy journey. Focus areas include reducing pre-term birth rates and severe maternal morbidity. This initiative encourages scalable solutions for measurable impact across various states, ensuring comprehensive support for mothers and infants alike.

For Grantseekers
Elevance Health Foundation supports the efforts of community-based nonprofit 
organizations across the country that are improving lives and communities.
Approach
As a catalyst for positive change, Elevance Health Foundation drives innovative and scalable solutions to address physical, behavioral, and social needs. Over the next five years, the Foundation will focus our grantmaking efforts on partnerships and programs that can demonstrate measurable and positive change in four key focus areas:

• Maternal/Infant HealthFood as MedicineBehavioral HealthCommunity Resiliency & Disaster Relief
• Maternal and Child Health Grant

The Foundation will prioritize funding programs that improve maternal/infant health, target disparities, address social needs, and remove barriers to care throughout the pregnancy journey—from pre-conception support to postnatal care for mothers and babies. The programs should drive specific, measurable maternal/infant health outcomes.
Locations
National programs - Promoting scalable and sustainable systemic change.Local programs - Implementing relevant interventions in California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia.
Reducing disparities in pre-term birth rates
Reducing disparities in severe maternal morbidity (SMM) incidenceImproving maternal/infant health outcomes

Application Details

Request for Proposal
Background As a catalyst for positive change, the Elevance Health Foundation drives
innovative and scalable solutions to address physical, behavioral, and
social needs through a multi-lever approach to community investment.
Over the next five years, we will continue to focus our grantmaking support
on efforts to improve maternal and infant health outcomes. We invite
qualified nonprofits with a history of successful community initiatives to
We prioritize funding programs that improve maternal/infant health, target
disparities, address social needs, and remove barriers to care throughout
the pregnancy journey—from pre-conception support to postnatal care for
mothers and babies.
Types of Programs Elevance Health Foundation will consider proposals from qualified non-
profit organizations across the U.S. with an emphasis on:

• National programs. Promoting scalable and sustainable systemic change.

or

• Local programs. Implementing relevant interventions in California, Florida,

Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia.
Grant Program Goals Elevance Health Foundation is requesting proposals for programs and
initiatives that support one or more of the following goals:

• • Reducing disparities in pre-term birth rates
• • Reducing disparities in severe maternal morbidity (SMM) incidence
• • Improving maternal/infant health outcomes
• Grant Range & Term • Grant Range: Open
• The amount requested should be primarily limited to costs directly related
• to the implementation of the proposed program, and may include support
• for measurement, evaluation, and reporting.
• • Grant Term: 1–3 years based on need (12-month increments)
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• Updated 2025

Grant Requirements Successful grant applications will be required to provide semi-annual
reports demonstrating progress towards achieving metrics specific to the
program goal. Such metrics may include:

• • Improved pre-term birth rates among socially vulnerable populations
• • Reduced SMM incidence (adverse outcomes) among socially vulnerable
• populations
• • Improved maternal/infant health outcomes such as those demonstrated
• through:
• Increased access to preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care and services
• — Expansion of maternal health workforce
• — Increase in care and services offered through non-traditional healthcare
• settings (i.e. mobile clinics)
• — Increase in access to telehealth/digital tools and services
• Pre-conception
• — Increase in access to family planning services/resources
• — Increase in support for physical, mental, and social needs leading up
• to pregnancy
• Prenatal/Delivery
• — Increase in prenatal care visits
• — Increase in support for physical, mental, and social needs leading up
• to and during delivery
• Post-natal (up to 12 months)
• — Increase in postnatal care visits
• — Increase in support for physical, mental, and social needs following
• delivery
• — Increase in access to family planning resources
• — Increase in individuals breastfeeding
• — Increase in well-child visits
• — Increase in infant immunizations
• Priority Priority consideration will be given to grant programs that:
• Considerations
• • Support whole-person health
• • Address the health-related social needs of those being served
• • Include interventions that are culturally relevant to those being served
• • Build trust through programming that considers the unique needs of
• those being served
• • Offer innovative, scalable solutions
• • Generate measurable outcomes
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Eligibility Applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria:

• • Proof of status as a registered 501(c)3 charitable organization under
• one of these Internal Revenue Code subsections:

— 170(b)(1)(A)(vi). Receives substantial support from governmental units
or the general public
— 509(a)(2). Normally receives no more than one-third of its support from
gross investment income and unrelated business income, and more
than one-third from contributions, fees, and gross receipts related to
exempt purposes
— 509(a)(3). Operated solely for the benefit of and in conjunction with
other exempt organizations (public charities):

• Type I, Type II, or Type III functionally integrated
• • Clearly define measures and accountability standards, including
• key milestones
• • Track and record long-term outcomes of program effectiveness and
• sustainable change
• Submissions Nonprofit organizations seeking funding to implement community-based
• initiatives that align with these guidelines should submit an application to

be considered for this request for proposal. Please note, the review period
is 4-6 months. Elevance Health Foundation will contact you for additional
information, or once a decision is rendered.