How much funding does Misinformation Challenge Grant provide?

Misinformation Challenge Grant provides $110,000 (total pool for 2022) in funding.

When is the deadline for Misinformation Challenge Grant?

The funder has not published a deadline for this grant.

Misinformation Challenge Grant

Abim Foundation

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Funding Amount

$110,000 (total pool for 2022)

Deadline

Deadline not published

Grant Type

Foundation

Can we apply?

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Other requirements

Community health organizations
Fact-checking organizations
Media organizations
Health educators

Overview

This grant program supports practices designed to enhance or expand existing practices to build trust in the health care system by identifying and countering misinformation in health care and public health. The program experienced a resurgence during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among Black and Latino populations.

Award Year: 2022

Total Funding Available: $110,000

Focus Areas:

Identifying and countering medical misinformation
Health care and public health misinformation
Spanish-language misinformation
Community health education
Culturally and linguistically appropriate materials
Building trust in underserved communities
Journalist training on misinformation
Digital outreach and communications

2022 Winners:

First Place: Factchequeado (combating Spanish-language health misinformation with focus on WhatsApp)
Second Place: Cuidate/Take Care Annapolis (community health education and chronic disease management)

Honorable Mentions:

PIRG
Migrant Clinicians Network
NYC Health & Hospitals Columbia
Curious

Eligible Applicants:

Community health organizations
Fact-checking organizations
Media organizations
Health educators
Community outreach programs

Geographic Scope: United States and international (Spanish-speaking communities)

What Abim Foundation actually gave

Source: IRS Form 990, 2025

Grants in 2025: 23
Total given: $993K
Median grant: $20K
Range: $10K–$269K

By dollars: District of Columbia 32%, Pennsylvania 10%, Michigan 10%. Top recipient cities: Chicago, IL; Washington, DC; Nashville, TN.
0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
83% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.

Example grants

Academyhealth · Washington, DC

Advancing research on trust - a focus on medical debt (ph v)

$269K
American College of Physicians Inc (ACP) · Philadelphia, PA

Acp coaching for impact - empowering early career internal medicine graduates…

$102K
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI

Trust and ai - the impact of new technologies on healthcare relationships

$87K
Patient Centered Primary Care Foundation · Washington, DC

Support for the david meyers research award; richard baron fellow - to operate a…

$50K
Washington University · St Louis, MO

Pursuing equity and building trust - creating a novel faculty development series to…

$50K