Special Projects Fund awards are one-time, nonrenewable funding opportunities supporting projects that address important and emerging health care and public health issues that fall outside the three priority areas.
Donor Name: New York Health Foundation
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/04/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The New York Health Foundation (NYHealth) has a broad mission to improve the health of all New Yorkers, especially people of color and others who have been historically marginalized. The Foundation concentrates most of the grantmaking in three strategic priority areas: Primary Care; Healthy Food, Healthy Lives; and Veterans’ Health. The Foundation also engages in responsive grantmaking through the Special Projects Fund.
Funding Information
Special Projects Fund grants are typically in the $200,000 range or below. Funding requests can range from $50,000 to a maximum of $300,000.
Grant Period
The timeframe of projects funded by the Special Projects Fund varies, but typically projects are 12 to 36 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant is a nonprofit organization with a 501(c)(3) IRS designation or a for-profit organization with a significant ability to have impact in New York State.
- Project directly aligns with NYHealth’s mission, with a focus on improving the health of New Yorkers who have been historically marginalized.
- Applicant clearly articulates a pressing community need, an opportunity to address a gap, and a strategy to create long-term, systemic change.
- Applicant clearly articulates goals, timelines, objectives, and measurable outcomes.
- Project has an effective evaluation plan, including measures for local, regional, or statewide impact.
- Applicant has experience, potential, and readiness to complete the project successfully.
- Applicant builds collaboration among organizations and demonstrates meaningful community input and participation in the design and implementation of the project.
- Project has a strong potential for replication elsewhere in New York State or nationally.
- Applicant articulates how the project will be financially and programmatically sustained after the one-time grant support from NYHealth ends.
- Applicant demonstrates how and why the initiative represents a special opportunity for NYHealth funding.
- Applicant demonstrates a degree of creativity or innovation.
Ineligible Expenses
- Lobbying
- Capital expenses (e.g., construction/renovation, furniture, vehicles, health care equipment)
- Materials and supplies (e.g., tablets for patients) may be eligible under some circumstances if they are directly related to project activities, but costs cannot account for a major portion of the total budget.
- General operations/core support or projects that involve funding of existing ongoing services undertaken by an organization.
- The term “general operating support” or “core support” refers to unrestricted grants for a nonprofit organization’s overall mission, rather than for specific projects or programs. These include costs associated with running an organization like rent, IT services, recouping revenue losses, or baseline operating costs. These costs should be included in NYHealth’s allowable 15% overhead amount.
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