Families at the HEART is a Perigee Fund initiative focused on strengthening and expanding community-developed intervention models that increase access to culturally rooted mental health support for families during pregnancy and the first three years of a child’s life.
Donor Name: Perigee Fund
State: Washington
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
This initiative is designed to support step-change growth, helping models deepen their impact, respond to evolving needs, and expand in sustainable, healing-centered ways. Growth may take many forms, including enhancing services within existing communities, adapting models to new settings, or embedding them within broader systems.
Funding Information
This funding opportunity will provide a one-time upfront award of $425,000 to up to six organizations for a three-year grant period (January 2026–December 2028) to support leadership and capacity-building efforts.
Uses of Funds
Funding may be used to support:
- Dedicated staff time for individuals actively involved in planning, capacity building, and model growth and development.
- Time and resources to explore sustainability and diversified revenue sources, including engagement with prospective public and private sector funders.
- Internal capacity-building efforts to strengthen organizational systems that enable model growth and expansion.
- Lobbying activities—when directly related to securing funding for the model.
- Direct costs to implement capacity-building plans (e.g., data collection consultation, improvements to monitoring and evaluation systems, billing specialists, updating training manuals).
Eligibility Criteria
- The organization must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, a tribal entity, a public agency, or be fiscally sponsored by a nonprofit.
- Universities or academic institutions are not eligible to apply as lead applicants, though they may participate as subcontractors.
For more information, visit Perigee Fund.
