Funding search · health disparities · North Carolina
Who funds health disparities work in North Carolina
15 funders have a record of paying for health disparities work by North Carolina recipients: 64 grants totaling $16.7M, most recently in 2025 — mostly grantmaking charities, which often run real application cycles. The largest by matched giving are The Duke Endowment ($4.2M), Direct Relief ($2.0M) and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($1.3M).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to North Carolina recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $1.1M to DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM — to establish an outpatient clinical research site and develop a community outreach initiative to improve health and decrease health disparities.
Direct ReliefSanta Barbara, CACharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to GOSHEN MEDICAL CENTER INC — fund for health equity, lilly health equity
Largest: $24,781 to NORTH CAROLINA U OF CHAPEL HILL — 78304 expanding data collection under the covid prison project to help transform public health data systems and advance health equity
American Heart AssociationDallas, TXCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $154,800 · through 2023Largest: $30,000 to WEST BOULEVARD NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION — health equity
Largest: $350,000 to COUNTY OF BURKE — harm reduction and health equity support program.
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
4 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2024Largest: $350,000 to THE CENTER FOR BLACK HEALTH AND EQUITY — health and health equity
Cspi Action FundWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $249,572 · through 2023Largest: $150,000 to THE CENTER FOR BLACK HEALTH & EQUITY — campaign for passage of a restaurant menu sodium disclosure policy in cleveland, ohio
American Diabetes AssociationArlington, VACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $398,788 · through 2023Largest: $199,877 to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — innovative clinical or translational science new health disparities
Largest: $75,000 to FLYWHEEL FOUNDATION — health equity innovation challenge 2023 - 2025
Triangle North Healthcare FoundationHenderson, NCCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $100,000 · through 2023Largest: $50,000 to NC MEDASSIST — health equity program for granville, franklin, vance & warren county residents.
Gateway Wellness FoundationMarion, NCCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $17,500 · through 2025Largest: $10,000 to NC SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF — providing health equity foe deaf and blind and providing a security alert system
Moses H Cone Memorial HospitalGreensboro, NCCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $5.0M · through 2023Largest: $5.0M to CITY OF GREENSBORO — health equity & healthy communities
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