Foundation for Health Equity (f4HE): Food Insecurity Grant

Foundation for Health Equity (f4HE): Food Insecurity Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Foundation for Health Equity
Last Updated: July 15, 2025

Summary

The Foundation for Health Equity (F4HE) focuses on combating food insecurity in Northwest Philadelphia by supporting tax-exempt organizations. Grants aim to address immediate needs and systemic inequities, funding programs that provide food assistance and promote healthy aging. F4HE prioritizes nonprofits that exemplify both direct service and systemic change, ensuring a fair opportunity for all community members to achieve optimal health. This initiative seeks to empower local organizations and enhance community resilience against hunger.

Overview

Our Mission Foundation for Health Equity supports communities in NW Philadelphia by building on the assets of organizations that work to address systemic health inequities in order to build healthy, vibrant neighborhoods. Our Vision We envision a community where everyone has a fair and just opportunity to achieve optimal health. Our History Initially called Chestnut Hill Health Care Foundation, we were established in 2005 with the proceeds of the sale of Chestnut Hill Hospital to carry out charitable activities intended to improve the health of those living in the hospital’s primary service area. Transitioning names but not our mission, the Foundation became Green Tree Community Health Foundation in 2008. For 13 years the Foundation worked diligently to improve the health of those affected by hunger, illness, and lack of health insurance. In 2021, at the conclusion of a full-scale strategic planning process, the Foundation decided to change our name in order to better reflect the mission: Foundation for Health Equity (F4HE). Having listened to our community partners during the strategic planning process, we added advocacy and community engagement to our work. This allows us to better support and invest in the nonprofit partners who directly serve community members. Grants As a grantmaking organization, Foundation for Health Equity provides direct support to organizations fulfilling immediate, individual needs as well as addressing historical, systemic inequities. For example, we fund programs that feed hungry families as well as work to end food deserts. We also fund programs that help older adults age in place as well as protect their rights. Our goal is to improve systems that have historically made it difficult for people to gain and maintain health. Grants can be awarded to nonprofits that fit F4HE’s grant-receiving criteria under one of our primary focus areas: Food Insecurity, Healthy Aging, Women’s and Children’s Health. These grants are awarded to those non-profits that are exemplary of BOTH direct service and systems change efforts.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Grants are restricted to organizations identified as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and serving Northwest Philadelphia in the following zip codes: 19150 – Wadsworth19144 – Germantown19138 – East Germantown19128 – Roxborough19119 – Mt. Airy19118 – Chestnut HillOne LOI per organization may be submitted in a single calendar year. Applicants will be notified directly should there be any exception.

Ineligibility

Eligibility does not guarantee fundingOrganizations must be identified as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and cannot identify as a private foundation. A photocopy of the organization’s most recent IRS determination letter is required for consideration of funding. Foundation for Health Equity operates under a mission-driven strategic plan which guides our grantmaking. Therefore, as a general practice it is outside of our funding scope to provide grants for the following:Institutions which in policy or process discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion/non-religionGrants to individualsSupport of the promotion of specific religionsLoans, endowment, and debt reductionCapital campaigns