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: 11/20/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
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 has three strategic priority areas: Primary Care; Healthy Food, Healthy Lives; and Veterans’ Health.
NYHealth’s Special Projects Fund is designed to fund organizations and timely, evidence-based projects that respond to the current moment and address important and emerging health challenges and threats.
Funding Information
Funding requests must be commensurate with the work proposed and will be evaluated based on the scope and timeline of the project. Funding requests can range from $50,000 to a maximum of $200,000.
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 and focuses 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.
For more information, visit New York Health Foundation.
