Partners For Health: Small Grants

Partners for Health Foundation offers Small Grants of up to $15,000 to promote health equity in communities. These grants support both general operating expenses and specific projects aimed at improving health outcomes. Eligible organizations include 501(c)(3) nonprofits and local government entities serving designated communities in New Jersey. The foundation prioritizes proposals that demonstrate collaboration, data-driven results, and a commitment to addressing health inequities.

What We Believe
Partners for Health Foundation is a community-based organization that works toward a vision of thriving communities ensuring health for all. Partners for Health invests in programs, policies and organizations that lead to healthy communities and increased opportunities to thrive. Through partnering with community organizations, we strive to advance health equity through learning, grantmaking and advocacy.
We seek to address the factors that influence health, from the individual level to the policy level.
Small Grant Requests (up to $15,000) are accepted on a rolling basis, and can be accessed in our grants management system.
Types of Grantmaking
Partners for Health Foundation provides funding to organizations and communities in two ways.
General Operating Grants: Can strengthen an organization and its ability to change systems, listen to constituents, advocate for long term policy change, and determine how to measure outcomes incrementally on the journey toward their overall goals.
Project Grants: To support specific initiatives, projects, and collaborative efforts to shift the conditions that prevent communities from thriving.
Funding Priorities
During the review process, priority will be given to proposals that demonstrate the following:

• Focused on health equity

Working to improve how services are provided, based on feedback from constituents served (i.e., viewing issues at their source through a systems-perspective, or through a social determinant of health lens)
Collaborate with others to strengthen service provision, alleviate gaps in services, and leverage dollars and other resources
Data driven (i.e., how does your organization ensure measurable outcomes for your constituents?)

Eligibility

Non-for-profit organizations with 501(c)(3) public charity designation by the IRS are eligible for grants.
We also fund local government entities, or small organizations that have a fiscal sponsor that is a 501(c)(3).
Eligible organizations that serve one or more of the following 15 communities:
Bloomfield, Caldwell, Cedar Grove, Clifton, Essex Fells, Fairfield, Glen Ridge, Little Falls, Montclair, North Caldwell, Nutley, Roseland, Verona, West Caldwell and West Orange.
Statewide organizations that support local coalitions or advocate for statewide policy change to advance health equity and social justice may also be eligible for funding.