Grant Opportunities
Guidelines
Wyandotte Health Foundation will give the highest consideration for funding to programs or providers of projects that:
- Are located in Wyandotte County and directly serve Wyandotte County residents.
- Increase providers’ ability to support and effectively deliver primary health care services.
- Involve collaborative efforts among organizations working to improve health outcomes in Wyandotte County.
- Demonstrate efforts to minimize duplication.
- Encourage a holistic approach to addressing health issues.
- Foster creative health care solutions.
- Leverage additional funding, both private and public.
- Do not replace or supplant existing funding.
- Demonstrate culturally appropriate practices at all levels of the organization.
- Have clearly established measurable outcomes and the ability to monitor and report them.
Please note: The Wyandotte Health Foundation does not fund requests from individuals.
Eligibility Requirements
To be considered as a potential Wyandotte Health Foundation grantee, your organization must:
- Non-profits and public entities.
- Demonstrate that all funding will be used to serve Wyandotte County residents.
Funding Restrictions
In general, the Wyandotte Health Foundation will NOT award grants to the following:
- Direct support to individuals for projects or scholarships.
- Budget deficits or debt reduction.
- Activities that exclusively benefit members of sectarian or religious organizations.
- Efforts that directly influence legislation or support candidates for office.
- Annual fund drives or events.
- Building/capital campaigns.
- Medical research.
Grant Cycles Scheduled for 2022
Core Operating Support for Primary Care Safety Net Clinics
Total amount available: TBD
Release of Request for Proposal (RFP): late spring 2022
Application deadline: August 2022 (noon deadline)
*Please Note the full application should be submitted via the on-line grant portal, but you can access the printable application items below:
Download the SAMPLE RFP
Download the SAMPLE Budget Template
Download the SAMPLE Application Tables
COVID-19 Grant Opportunity
The Wyandotte Health Foundation will provide grant awards of up to $20,000 to organizations who are working to accomplish one or both of the goals below:
- Improve the vaccination rates for COVID-19 within Wyandotte County, particularly targeting Black and Latino communities, and areas within Wyandotte County with low vaccination rates
- Support staffing shortages/burnout within organizations due to the effects of the pandemic, with priority to healthcare, education, and childcare settings.
A total of up to $100,000 is available for this grant opportunity.
Release of Request for Proposal (RFP): March 1, 2022
Application deadline: April 1, 2022 (noon deadline) *Each grant will have a grant term of 6 months and will require a final report to be submitted.
For questions please contact Randy Lopez at rlopez@wyhealthfdn.orgÂ