The California Wellness Foundation provides grants to expand and strengthen the safety net to support low-income Californians in both maintaining their financial stability and in building their economic progress.
Donor Name: The California Wellness Foundation
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/30/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
According to the Center for American Progress, a strong safety net reduces poverty, increases economic mobility, and strengthens the national economy. Furthermore, studies show that many safety-net programs offer an excellent return on investment to taxpayers. They also support the economic justice ecosystem of organizations in California working to improve wages, benefits, and employment practices.
What they Fund?
Public policy and systems change efforts that:
- Address strengthening income security (e.g., earned income tax credits, child tax credits, retirement benefits, unemployment insurance, guaranteed income), including expanding eligibility (e.g., undocumented immigrants); or
- Advance economic justice (e.g., worker power, increasing the minimum/living wage, improving workforce policies, etc.).
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organization must be a nonprofit public agency, religious organization or tribal government. Cal Wellness does not fund individuals seeking funding.
- You must have Section 501(c)(3) status and be classified as a public charity.
- Your organization can’t discriminate by race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation or national origin.
- Your application is not for an annual fund drive, building campaign, major equipment or biomedical research.
- Your proposal would benefit those living in California. Cal Wellness does not provide international funding or fund organizations located outside the United States.
Ineligibility
Efforts that primarily address occupational health and workplace safety.
For more information, visit CWF.
