Mother Cabrini Health Foundation: Access to Healthcare Grant Program

The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation's Access to Healthcare Grant Program aims to enhance equitable access to healthcare across New York State. By addressing barriers faced by underserved populations, the foundation supports initiatives that ensure all individuals receive necessary health services. Grants typically begin at $75,000, focusing on direct service programs that align with the Catholic Church's ethical principles. This funding is crucial for organizations dedicated to improving healthcare outcomes for disadvantaged communities.

Our Grants & Programs
Building upon the legacy of Mother Cabrini and the Catholic tradition of healing for the sick and caring for the poor, our Foundation supports programs that meet the unmet healthcare and healthcare related needs of individuals, families, and communities throughout New York State.
Mother Cabrini Health Foundation is committed to supporting programs that advance comprehensive and equitable access to healthcare in every region of New York State, particularly for low-income and underserved populations. Medically underserved communities and marginalized populations face a range of barriers to access. The cumulative impact of these barriers causes inequity in health outcomes. MCHF supports programs that help ensure all New Yorkers have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship. Programs within this portfolio address a variety of factors that impact access to quality healthcare, including the following:
Affordability: Promoting equitable health outcomes by addressing financial barriers to healthcare (Could include provision of direct services that are otherwise cost-prohibitive, or those not covered by health and dental insurance. Could also include case management / patient navigation services to connect patients to financial support / resources they may be eligible for).Accessibility: Improving the ability to physically or virtually access a full range of healthcare services in a timely manner (Could include telehealth, community paramedicine, new service locations, mobile units).Capacity: Ensuring that available programs, services, and supports are sufficient to meet demand (Could include capital projects, service expansions/scaling. Does not include the provision of adding more staff – see our Healthcare Workforce Program).Acceptability: Improving the availability of and access to community-centered, linguistically appropriate, and culturally competent care (Could include culturally relevant community health education and prevention programs, and Community Health Worker services).
Funding
MCHF will generally consider grant proposals of $75,000 or greater.

Eligibility

What We Fund:MCHF funds domestic section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization in good standing with the Internal Revenue Service and the State of New York.
Specifically, grants may only be made to a domestic public charity as described in Internal Revenue Code section 509(a)(1) or (2) or an exempt operating foundation as described in Internal Revenue Code section 4940(d)(2).
All grants must adhere to and comply with the ethical principles, tenets, and teachings of the Roman Catholic Faith, including but not limited to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Applicant organizations are not required, however, to be affiliated with the Catholic Church to be eligible for grants.
Applicant organizations generally should reside in New York State, and primarily serve New York State residents.
Grants must benefit poor, disadvantaged, or underserved New York State residents.
Applicants should have an annual budget of $750,000 or more.
Grants must be used exclusively for the specific program, activity or project approved by the MCHF, which, in all cases, must be in furtherance of the MCHF’s charitable purposes.
Applicant organizations must demonstrate that they exhibit sound financial management and governance practices and are capable of effectively carrying out the programs, activities or projects proposed to be funded.
Applicants must demonstrate their capacity to work with the populations to be served by the project.MCHF primarily funds direct service programs/projects.
In certain circumstances, the foundation may consider capital, capacity building, and other types of requests.

Ineligibility

What We Do Not Fund:MCHF will not make grants to individuals.
MCHF will not make grants for any activities that involve carrying on propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation (within the meaning of Section 4945(d)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code).
MCHF will not make grants in support of any activities that involve participating in, or intervening in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office, influencing the outcome of any specific public election, or carrying on, directly or indirectly, any voter registration drive (within the meaning of Section 4945(d)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code).
MCHF will not make grants to support events, conferences, or fundraising activities.
MCHF does not plan to support capital grant programs, but may choose to do so on a limited, case-by-case basis.
MCHF will not award grant funds to supplant current government funding but grant funds may be used to augment services funded using government sources.MCHF will not support any programs whose nature, purpose, and/or mission conflicts with or are contrary to the ethical principles, tenets, and teachings of the Roman Catholic Faith, including, but not limited to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.