Healthcare Initiative Foundation Grant

Healthcare Initiative Foundation Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Healthcare Initiative Foundation
Last Updated: August 10, 2025

Summary

The Healthcare Initiative Foundation Grant aims to support organizations that enhance healthcare accessibility for underinsured and low-income residents in Montgomery County, Maryland. The foundation prioritizes innovative programs that improve health service delivery, capacity building, and collaboration with historically under-invested communities. Eligible applicants include 501(c)(3) nonprofits with a focus on community health initiatives. The foundation explicitly excludes funding for endowments, lobbying, and direct grants to individuals, ensuring resources are directed towards impactful community health solutions.

Overview

Our Mission We fund organizations that provide healthcare and improve accessibility to health services for underinsured, uninsured and low-income Montgomery County residents to advance a healthy community. We make grants that: Start or grow well-conceived programs/organizations;Offer innovative solutions to improve the quality, accessibility and/or delivery of health and wellness services;Replicate and scale successful programs and services from our own or other jurisdictions;Serve HIF’s strategic priority areas and historically under-invested communities and populations (e.g,. youth of opportunity, senior communities, and Black, Indigenous, People of Color [BIPOC]);Build organizational capacity to enhance sustainability and/or improve service delivery (e.g., commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion); andLeverage resources, whether human or financial (e.g., revenue, partnerships, matching, or aligned funds).

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. The Healthcare Initiative Foundation considers grants to 501(c)(3) healthcare nonprofits that are based in Montgomery County, Maryland, or to nonprofits that have county-based health programs activities.

Ineligibility

Give to endowment funds or annual campaigns;Fund lobbying or political activities;Make grants to individuals;Provide funds to private foundations unless for a particular grant purpose;Fund a nonprofit system or organization, including its affiliate(s) that owns or operates an acute care hospital in Montgomery County, Maryland;Provide funds to cover bricks and mortar capital expenses;Replace government funding; orFund religious activities, although secular health programs provided by a religious institution or its affiliate(s) may qualify.