Funding search · health disparities · Missouri
Who funds health disparities work in Missouri
15 funders have a record of paying for health disparities work by Missouri recipients: 88 grants totaling $7.5M, most recently in 2024 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are The Reach Healthcare Foundation ($3.5M), The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($959,136) and Health Forward Foundation ($1.1M).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Missouri recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
The Reach Healthcare FoundationOverland Park, KSCharity · may take applications
55 matching grants · $3.5M · through 2024Largest: $181,000 to Migrant Farmworkers Assistance Fund — bridge the coverage divide / close the health equity gap / strengthen the safety net
Largest: $187,437 to COMMUNITY HEALTH COMMISSION OF MISSOURI — 82187 implementing a community institutional review board to give equitable research oversight to communities experiencing health disparities in missouri
Health Forward FoundationKansas City, MOCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2024Largest: $400,000 to NURTURE KC — maternal and infant health equity
SostentoMontclair, NJCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $26,000 · through 2023Largest: $6,500 to Community Clinic of Southwest Missouri — funding for rides for health equity initiative
Largest: $32,000 to Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism — ahcj health equity topic leader
Largest: $10,000 to HEALTH PROTECTION AND EDUCATION SERVICES — decreasing health disparities among blacks by addressing social determinants of health
Largest: $50,000 to THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL — innovation in health equity tracking and analytics
Largest: $245,000 to National Rural Health Association — the purpose of this grant to support the national rural health association in their work to improve rural oral health equity through the continuation of the national rural oral hea…
Carequest Institute for Oral HealthBoston, MACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $125,000 · through 2022Largest: $125,000 to NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — the purpose of this grant is to advance momentum for oral health integration to improve rural oral health equity through implementation of the national rural oral health initiative…
The American Academy of Allergy AsthmaMilwaukee, WICharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $30,935 · through 2024Largest: $30,935 to WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS — environmental health equity research grant
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
1 matching grant · $465,000 · through 2023Largest: $465,000 to MERCY HEALTH — health and health equity
Largest: $425,000 to JEFFERSON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT — replacement for current aging mobile health services vehicle and addressing health equity to reduce barriers in health care
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