The Con Alma Health Foundation (CAHF) provides grants to eligible nonprofits working to improve health and advance health equity for people who live in New Mexico.
Donor Name: Con Alma Health Foundation
State: New Mexico
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/30/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The aim is to ensure that New Mexico’s diverse communities have fair opportunities to lead healthy lives.
Priority Areas
Con Alma prioritizes efforts that will impact many individuals within a network, community, or communities – rather than focusing on 1:1 direct service to individuals.
- Access – Con Alma supports proposals that focus on access to health and healthcare as well as improving the health status and quality of life for the uninsured and medically underserved in New Mexico
- Culturally Appropriate Services – Con Alma supports efforts that aim to reduce health disparities, particularly for rural and tribal communities, immigrant families, and people of color. They support traditional and community-based approaches to health and efforts that support the hardest to reach individuals and communities in New Mexico
- Evaluation/Research – Con Alma supports data analysis, policy and advocacy, and/or the creation of new knowledge
- Health Promotion – Con Alma supports efforts that define health broadly and emphasize education, prevention, and personal empowerment
- Policy – Con Alma supports consumer participation in health policy formation and advocacy efforts to improve the health and well-being of people who live in New Mexico
- Workforce Development – Con Alma supports the development of professionals who reflect the cultural and linguistic diversity of communities in New Mexico. This includes individuals who are participating in traditional as well as non-traditional training and educational opportunities.
Funding Information
- The Foundation anticipates funding up to $800,000 total
- Applicants may request $15,000, $20,000, $25,000, or $30,000 for one year of support.
Grant Period
January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2026.
Uses of Fund
- Funds may be used for personnel (staffing/benefits), professional services (contractors, evaluators), operational expenses (supplies, printing, postage, copying, communications), meetings and travel (venue rental, training costs), and other direct and indirect expenses
- Purchases of property or equipment are limited to $5,000 per item.
Geographic Focus
Con Alma Annual Grants must benefit people living in New Mexico including all 33 counties, rural, tribal and frontier communities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants are awarded to tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations under Section 501(c)(3) Code of the Internal Revenue Service or to Fiscal Sponsors with a 501(c)(3) designation
- This opportunity is open to all eligible applicants including current and past grant recipients of Con Alma Health Foundation
- Work funded by the grant must benefit people living in New Mexico
- Priority communities in New Mexico:
- Communities historically marginalized because of race, language, disabilities, gender, sexual orientation, or spiritual beliefs
- Immigrant, rural, and border communities
- Low-income and economically under-resourced communities
- People suffering from chronic health conditions and trauma-related health inequities
- People who are uninsured, underinsured, and/or medically underserved
- The foundation funds requests that have the potential to benefit many members in a system, network, or community (vs. individual needs).
For more information, visit CAHF.
