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Who funds health disparities work in Louisiana
14 funders have a record of paying for health disparities work by Louisiana recipients: 61 grants totaling $14.7M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Wk Kellogg Foundation ($6.5M), The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($5.7M) and Direct Relief ($1.2M).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Louisiana recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
35 matching grants · $6.5M · through 2024Largest: $1.2M to OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION — address disparities in health care delivery and access through planning and implementing a new ochsner-xavier center for health equity, in which internal and external stakeholders …
Largest: $974,756 to TULANE U — 78477 evolving health equity research from descriptive analysis to community-partnered, solutions-oriented investigation and action to advance health equity
Direct ReliefSanta Barbara, CACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2022Largest: $375,000 to MARTIN LUTHER KING HEALTH CENTER — fund for health equity
United Health FoundationEden Prairie, MN
2 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $795,016 to MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER — addressing colorectal and prostate cancer health disparities along the cancer continuum
Our Lady of the Lake HospitalBaton Rouge, LACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $30,000 · through 2024Largest: $19,500 to PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — health equity
Mayor'S Healthy City InitiativeBaton Rouge, LACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $45,000 · through 2022Largest: $45,000 to LOUISIANA CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY — increase access to healthy foods
Largest: $40,000 to GULF COAST HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC — this grant will support participation in the advancing health equity through housing (heh) learning community.
Largest: $25,000 to LOUISIANA CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY — louisiana resources and education assessments for children's health (la reach)
The Joe Burrow FoundationCincinnati, OHCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $10,000 · through 2024Largest: $10,000 to LOUISIANA CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY — general operating support
Largest: $10,000 to Louisiana Center for Health Equity — romay davis - operational support
Woman'S Hospital FoundationBaton Rouge, LACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $10,000 · through 2023Largest: $10,000 to THE SAFETY PLACE — maternal health and health equity programming
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring FoundationFargo, ND
1 matching grant · $3,000 · through 2025Largest: $3,000 to AgriSafe — reducing health disparities in the agriculture community on behavioral health, including but not limited to recognizing and responding to someone at risk of suicide, decreasing sti…
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