The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey is seeking applications for its 2025 Arts & Community Health Grant.
Donor Name: Horizon Foundation for New Jersey
State: New Jersey
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/09/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The arts are an effective tool for conveying health messaging and encouraging healthy behaviors within a community. The goal is to support new and innovative arts programs to help empower the members and the communities they serve to achieve their best health. The Foundation supports programs that provide opportunities to engage the communities they serve in prevention, education, and awareness.
Focus Areas
Through a competitive application process, they invite arts organizations to submit a grant application that will advance the following areas of focus:
- Directly encourages healthy behaviors—physical and/or mental health
- Promotes greater dialogue on health—specifically the priority areas of obesity, behavioral health, or social determinants of health
- Educates, connects to, or raises awareness of available health services
- Makes health information more clear, memorable, and relevant to the community.
Funding Information
Grant range is up to $25,000.
Grant period
January 1, 2026 – December 31, 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria for qualified applicants:
- Arts organizations that promote or leverage fine, visual, performing, and/or literary arts through programming that engages individuals, audience members or the community-at-large.
- Arts organizations with previous health-focused programming experience is welcome, but not required.
- Arts organizations may partner with a health or other organization to design and/or deliver programming; applicants must describe in detail the collaborative partnership in their proposal.
- The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey will not fund:
- Arts programs that address general wellness.
- Arts programs that provide therapeutic services.
- Proposals received from a non-Arts organization.
- Proposals that fall outside of the New Jersey service area.
- Multi-year grant requests.
For more information, visit HFNJ.
