The Elevance Health Foundation will prioritize funding for programs that improve maternal/ infant health, target disparities, address social needs, and remove barriers to care throughout the pregnancy journey—from pre-conception support to postnatal care for mothers and babies.
Donor Name: Elevance Health Foundation
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 07/31/2026
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Goals
Elevance Health Foundation is requesting proposals for programs and initiatives that support one or more of the following goals:
- Reducing disparities in pre-term birth rates
- Reducing disparities in severe maternal morbidity (SMM) incidence
- Improving maternal/infant health outcomes
Priority Considerations
Priority consideration will be given to grant programs that:
- Support whole-person health
- Address the health-related social needs of those being served
- Include interventions that are culturally relevant to those being served
- Build trust through programming that considers the unique needs of those being served
- Offer innovative, scalable solutions
- Generate measurable outcomes
Types of Programs
Elevance Health Foundation will consider proposals from qualified nonprofit organizations across the U.S. with an emphasis on:
- National programs. Promoting scalable and sustainable systemic change. or
- Local programs. Implementing relevant interventions in California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia
Grant Term
1–3 years based on need (12-month increments).
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- Proof of status as a registered 501(c)3 charitable organization under one of these Internal Revenue Code subsections:
- 170(b)(1)(A)(vi). Receives substantial support from governmental units or the general public
- 509(a)(2). Normally receives no more than one-third of its support from gross investment income and unrelated business income, and more than one-third from contributions, fees, and gross receipts related to exempt purposes
- 509(a)(3). Operated solely for the benefit of and in conjunction with other exempt organizations (public charities): Type I, Type II, or Type III functionally integrated
- Clearly define measures and accountability standards, including key milestones
- Track and record long-term outcomes of program effectiveness and sustainable change
Requirements
Successful grant applications will be required to provide semi-annual reports demonstrating progress towards achieving metrics specific to the program goal. Such metrics may include:
- Improved pre-term birth rates among socially vulnerable populations
- Reduced SMM incidence (adverse outcomes) among socially vulnerable populations
- Improved maternal/infant health outcomes such as those demonstrated through:
- Increased access to preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care and services
- Expansion of maternal health workforce
- Increase in care and services offered through non-traditional healthcare settings (i.e. mobile clinics)
- Increase in access to telehealth/digital tools and services
- Pre-conception
- Increase in access to family planning services/resource
- Increase in support for physical, mental, and social needs leading up to pregnancy
- Prenatal/Delivery
- Increase in prenatal care visits
- Increase in support for physical, mental, and social needs leading up to and during delivery
- Post-natal (up to 12 months)
- Increase in postnatal care visits
- Increase in support for physical, mental, and social needs following delivery
- Increase in access to family planning resources
- Increase in individuals breastfeeding
- Increase in well-child visits
- Increase in infant immunization
- Increased access to preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care and services
For more information, visit Elevance Health Foundation.
