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Community Health Improvement Grants
The Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (VMFH) Community Health Improvement Grants program is funded by contributions from our 8 hospitals around Puget Sound. In awarding community grants, VMFH actively partners with nonprofit organizations working to improve health status and quality of life in the communities we serve.
Grant funds are used to deliver services and strengthen service systems, to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable and underserved populations. The program is one way VMFH puts its mission and values into practice.
Funding criteria
The Community Health Improvement Grants program uses funding criteria to ensure that its charitable resources address health needs in ways that demonstrate accountability for impact. Grant applicants should ensure that their proposed projects:
- Address one or more prioritized significant needs in the local hospital’s Community Health Needs Assessment
- Access to health care
- Chronic disease prevention
- Behavioral health
- Violence prevention
- Serve identified vulnerable or underserved populations
- Include two or more collaborating partners with distinct, complementary and substantive project roles
- Preference is given to projects that work in some capacity with one or more VMFH hospitals
Eligibility
- Lead applicant must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
- Grant projects awards are from $20,000 up to $100,000. Grant project implementation is from March 2025 to February 2026.
- Mid-year and final written accountability reports are required
- Projects are funded for one year and there is no guarantee of continued funding in future years
Information sessions
- June 13, 2024 | 2:30-4 p.m. | Register for this information session
- June 17, 2024 | 9:30-11 a.m. | Register for this information session
- July 16, 2024 | 9-10 a.m. | Register for this Application Q&A session
Timeline
- Application period open from June 10-Aug. 9, 2024
- Applicants notified – November 2024
- Projects begin – March 1, 2025
- Projects end – Feb. 28, 2026
Community Health Improvement grant recipients
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Applicant Organization
Application Name
$ Amount Funded
Communities In Schools Of Lakewood
In School Behavioral Supports
$95,000
Emergency Food Network
EFN Home Delivery Program
$75,000
HopeSparks
Hip Hop Therapy
$53,560
KC HELP
Knights of Columbus Equipment Support Program
$35,000
Key Peninsula Healthy Community
Key Peninsula Healthy Community
$95,000
Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center
Community Health Improvement for Immigrants
$100,000
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center
Hilltop and Downtown Tacoma Community Health Workers
$96,000
North Kitsap Fishline
Fishline Counseling Services
$50,000
Nourish Pierce County Food Banks
Culturally Responsive/Nutritious Foods
$100,000
Pacific Lutheran University
Spanish-Language Medical Interpretation Training Course
$42,170
Peace Lutheran Church
Peace Lutheran - Hilltop Anti-Displacement Program
$36,500
Pike Market Senior Center & Food Bank
Senior Homelessness Intervention & Prevention (SHIP)
$98,200
Plateau Outreach Ministries
Plateau Outreach Ministries Basic Needs
$25,000
Project Access Northwest
Pro Bono Behavioral Health Counseling Program
$100,000
Rainier Foothills Wellness Foundation
Rainier Foothills Wellness Foundation - Community Mental Health
$60,000
Resilient in Sustaining Empowerment
Behavioral Health Supports for Gun Violence Survivors
$95,000
Seattle Center Foundation
2024 Seattle/King County Clinic
$35,000
Solid Ground WA
Solid Ground’s Sand Point Behavioral Health Partnerships Program
$100,000
Step By Step Family Support Center
Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Pregnant and Parenting Women
$100,000
Tacoma SEED - Hilltop Urban Gardens
Hilltop Urban Gardens
$67,013
Tacoma Urban League/Leaders in Women's Health
Culturally Competent Diabetes & Hypertension Outreach & Workshop
$25,000
Teen Feed
Teen Feed Trauma & Nutrition Equity - Community Guide
$35,000
Vine Maple Place
Addressing social determinants of health to end homelessness through Vine Maple Place’s Stable Families Program
$95,000
YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap Counties
Chronic Disease Support Programs
$80,080