Mother Cabrini Health Foundation: General Fund & Eight Populations Grant Program

The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation supports healthcare initiatives aimed at vulnerable populations in New York State through the General Fund & Eight Populations Grant Program. This program addresses unmet healthcare needs by funding projects that benefit immigrants, low-income individuals, older adults, and others. Grants typically start at $75,000, promoting direct services while ensuring adherence to the ethical principles of the Roman Catholic Faith.

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 recognizes that our Programs will not include the full spectrum of opportunities to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable New Yorkers. The General Fund is designed to consider and support projects that do not fit within our Programs but that advance the health and well-being of our eight priority populations.
Please click on links below for an overview of each of those populations:

• Immigrants
• Justice-Involved Individuals
• Low-Income Individuals and Families
• Older Adults
• People with Disabilities
• Veterans
• Young Children, Pregnant Women, and New Moms and Dads
• Youth and Young Adults
• 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.