San Joaquin Valley Health Fund
Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management
Funding Amount
Almost $30 million committed since 2015
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Overview
Program Type: Multi-year grant program
The San Joaquin Valley Health Fund has committed almost $30 million for organizations throughout the Valley since funding began in 2015. Grantees are tackling the most critical issues that affect families' health.
Geographic Scope: San Joaquin Valley region including Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tulare counties
Focus Areas
- Food security
- Air quality
- Clean drinking water
- Domestic violence
- Housing
- Health care
- Education
- Employment
- Immigrant rights
- Open space
- Neighborhood safety
Funding Clusters and Special Initiatives
- San Joaquin Valley Immigrant Rights and Protection Cluster
- Drinking Water Cluster Grants
- COVID-19 Farmworker Resiliency Grants
- Wildfire Resiliency Grants
- IHHEEL Advocacy and COVID-19 Recovery and Resiliency Advocacy
Fund Structure
The fund has multiple rounds of grantmaking:
- Round 1-5 grantees documented
- Census Outreach Partners
Contact Information
The Center at Sierra Health Foundation
- Address: 1321 Garden Highway Suite 210, Sacramento, California 95833
- Phone: (916) 993-7701
- Email: impact@shfcenter.org
Past recipients of this program
Recent awards under this program (from Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management's IRS filings)
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
San Francisco, CA · 2021
$110K
San Francisco, CA · 2021
$54K
Oakland, CA · 2021
$50K
San Francisco, CA · 2021
$50K
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice
San Francisco, CA · 2021
$50K
22 grants in Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management's 2019–2021 filings reference “San Joaquin Valley Health Fund” in their stated purpose. Amounts and places as reported by the funder.
What Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 80
- Total given
- $6.76M
- Median grant
- $35K
- Range
- $6,000–$2.5M
- By dollars: California >99%, Massachusetts <1%, Rhode Island <1%. Top recipient cities: Sacramento, CA; Fresno, CA; Oakland, CA.
- 33% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Sierra Health Foundation · Sacramento, CA
$2.5M
Catalyst California · Los Angeles, CA
$763K
Young Women's Freedom Center · San Francisco, CA
$240K
Liberty Hill Foundation · Los Angeles, CA
$175K
Community Alliance with Family Farmers Foundation · Davis, CA
$125K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Community development
- Health disparities
- Immigration
- Food security
- Housing
- Domestic violence
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