United Way of Greater St. Louis Targeted Funding Grant

The United Way of Greater St. Louis Targeted Funding aims to provide flexible, one-year grants to nonprofits addressing urgent community needs through emergency, emergent, or innovative approaches. Funding will focus on basic needs, health and wellness, crisis response, and more across 16 counties. Priority will be given to areas identified as having the greatest needs based on recent assessments, ensuring that support is directed where it is most needed.

NOTE: Please Note the United Way will not offer any open funding cycles for organizations outside of the current Safety Net cohort in 2025.
Purpose
United Way of Greater St. Louis (United Way) Targeted Fund’s purpose is to provide flexible funding to support nonprofits that are best positioned to address the identified targeted needs by implementing programs that use an emergency, emergent, or innovative approach.
An agency will receive funding for one program. The funding is a one-year programmatic grant and non-renewable.
Targeted Needs
United Way will annually assess the real-time community needs and gaps based upon the result from its community needs assessment, community landscape reports, United Way’s 211 data source, and additional secondary data sources.
The identified needs will align with United Way’s impact areas:

• basic needs, health and wellness, community stability and crisis response, jobs and financial mobility, early childhood, and youth success.

This funding opportunity will target United Way’s 16 counties. Priority funding will be given to counties that demonstrate the greatest need as outlined in United Way’s recent community assessment of our real time community needs.