Funding search · public health · New Jersey
Who funds public health work in New Jersey
15 funders have a record of paying for public health work by New Jersey recipients: 49 grants totaling $4.8M, most recently in 2024 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($750,194), Health Coalition of Passaic County ($523,935) and Potts Memorial Foundation ($72,560).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to New Jersey recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $111,075 to RUTGERS ST U OF NJ CTR FOR ST HLT POL — 76850 designing a population-based cohort study to generate new knowledge about drivers of population health and health equity in new jersey
Health Coalition of Passaic CountyPaterson, NJCharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $523,935 · through 2024Largest: $87,156 to EVA'S VILLAGE — community based programs and person-centered care initiatives across various populations including but not limited to seniors, maternal health, chronic conditions, and mental healt…
Largest: $47,560 to RUTGERS NJ MEDICAL SCHOOL PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE — investigation of immune mechanisms regulating heterogeneity
The Scan FoundationLong Beach, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $615,468 · through 2024Largest: $110,118 to CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE STRATEGIES INC — the goal of this project is to support states in developing and sustaining essential medicare program and policy expertise needed to advance medicare and medicaid integration and i…
Largest: $50,000 to CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE STRATEGIES INC — to support the better care playbook initiative and its work providing educational resources and other innovative tools about complex populations.
Largest: $55,397 to NORTH JERSEY AIDS ALLIANCE INC — addressing vaccine hesitancy, trauma and behavioral health for vulnerable, underserved minority populations during covid-19 pandemic
Largest: $92,866 to Center for Health Care Strategies Inc — implementing population-based payments in medicaid to promote high-quality, equitable primary care
Largest: $5,000 to PREVENTION RESOURCES INC — health and resilience in disparate populations program
American Psychiatric AssociationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $6,000 · through 2023Largest: $6,000 to SOUTH ASIAN MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE AND NETWORK — raise awareness of mental health in underserved populations
Largest: $504,408 to HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH — the grant will enable grantee to fund the expansion in paterson, new jersey of the som human dimensions program (the "hd program"), which is a three-year longitudinal course design…
Largest: $15,000 to Fairleigh Dickinson University — mental health scholarships for under-represented student populations
President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCambridge, MACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $5,145 · through 2024Largest: $5,145 to RADIATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH PROJECT — sponsored research sub-award
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