Funding search · health disparities · Texas
Who funds health disparities work in Texas
15 funders have a record of paying for health disparities work by Texas recipients: 100 grants totaling $19.6M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Houston Health Foundation ($1.3M), Direct Relief ($4.3M) and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($9.0M).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Texas recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Houston Health FoundationHouston, TXCharity · may take applications
31 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2023Largest: $230,204 to RICE UNIVERSITY — health equity
Direct ReliefSanta Barbara, CACharity · may take applications
23 matching grants · $4.3M · through 2024Largest: $300,000 to ACACIA MEDICAL MISSION — fund for health equity
Largest: $906,145 to TEXAS CHRISTIAN U — 79982 creating a national consensus on centering racial health equity in evidence syntheses to address racial health disparities
Largest: $800,000 to ORGANIZERS INSTITUTE SOUTH AND WEST IAF — increasing leadership capacity to advance health equity in california: to support a program that will train new and emerging community and labor organizers to fill organizing jobs …
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
4 matching grants · $967,146 · through 2023Largest: $352,167 to AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC — support efforts to combat abusive preemption that inhibits health equity through strategic advocacy campaigns, education and outreach, and technical assistance
Largest: $65,000 to PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS — support for health equity fund
Altamed Health Services CorporationLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $160,000 · through 2024Largest: $125,000 to SOUTHWEST VOTER REGISTRATION EDUCATION PROJECT INC — reduced health disparity in underserved communities.
Largest: $50,000 to United Way of Tarrant County — health equity - maternal health
Largest: $46,014 to BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE — advancing maternal health equity among black women in the united states: considerations for bioethicists
American Heart AssociationDallas, TXCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $85,500 · through 2023Largest: $60,500 to ACTIVATESA — health equity
American Academy of PediatricsItasca, ILCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $67,259 · through 2023Largest: $37,609 to TEXAS PEDIATRIC SOCIETY — project firstline; refund catch immigrant child health; disaster preparedness; set-net aap; health equity; refund 2023 kkc; suicide prevention; suid prevention
Largest: $2,000 to ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS — reduce social and health disparities amongst vulnerable populations.
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