The Michigan Health Endowment Fund seeks proposals that demonstrate the potential to improve children’s health while informing policy, influencing systems, or offering models that can be adapted or replicated across Michigan.
Donor Name: Michigan Health Endowment Fund
State: Michigan
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/30/2026
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Every child deserves the opportunity to grow up healthy. The Healthy Kids Initiative invests in community driven solutions that improve health from before birth through young adulthood. They are interested in projects that take place in all the settings that shape children’s health, from pediatricians’ offices to gymnasiums to childcare centers.
Healthy Kids reflects belief that every child deserves the opportunity to grow up healthy. The program supports community-driven solutions that improve health from before birth through young adulthood in all the settings that shape children’s well-being.
Priority Areas
Access to Care and Support
- They will invest in projects that ensure that children, youth, families — and other people who care for them — can equitably access care. This may include, but is not limited to:
- Pediatric care and preventative services, including immunizations
- Access to effective mental health and substance use disorder services
- Efforts to address the specific, unique health care needs of foster and adopted children, youth, and young adults
- Health education and navigation supports that help children and their caregivers access and effectively use care
Maternal & Infant Health
- They will prioritize investments that strengthen health and wellbeing before and during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. Strategies may include, but are not limited to:
- Prenatal and postpartum care
- Maternal behavioral health
- Infant health and attachment
- Breastfeeding and lactation support
- Promoting continuity of care throughout community and clinical settings
Nutrition and Physical Activity
- They will support projects that provide opportunities for children to access healthy food and be physically active. This may include, but is not limited to:
- Expanding access to nutritious foods and integrating them across settings and developmental stages
- Supporting healthy, lifelong eating habits through education and supports grounded in culture, family practices, and daily routines that shape children’s experience of food
- Embedding inclusive, age and ability appropriate physical activity into the settings where children spend their days
- Advancing cross-sector partnerships and building policy capacity that supports efforts to increase children’s access to physical activity
Funding Information
Applicants may apply for a one or two-year grant, but the total request is limited to $750,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Nonprofits, federally recognized Tribes, local units of government, and the State of Michigan are eligible for grants. Organizations do not need to be based in Michigan, but all project activities must occur in Michigan. To be eligible to apply for a grant under this initiative, applicants must:
- Be recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt organization;
- Have a current audit or independently reviewed financial statements (preferred) or 990 (accepted); and
- Have at least one paid FTE (e.g., one full-time employee or two half-time employees)
For more information, visit Michigan Health Endowment Fund.
