United Way of Greater St. Louis Targeted Funding Grant

United Way of Greater St. Louis Targeted Funding Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: United Way Of Greater St Louis Inc
Amount: Up to US $100,000
Last Updated: September 15, 2025

Summary

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.

Overview

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 emergency approach is focused on addressing the identified community need using a rapid response approach to ensure those in need quickly regain stability.An emergent approach is focused on addressing the identified community need using an evolving approach and or brand-new to our region.An innovative approach is focused on addressing the identified community need using an approach that has not been previously implemented by the agency. 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.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website.