The Social Impact Funds What We Fund
The Social Impact Funds support community-led transformation by strategically deploying capital to social entrepreneurs who are using their lived experience to tackle three vital social drivers of health.
Health Care Access & Quality
Overcoming barriers to high-quality, affordable, accessible health care that is age, gender and culturally appropriate.
Food Security
Increasing access to healthy, affordable food via sustainable farming, mobile markets, food hubs, food as medicine and more.
Economic Empowerment
Promoting economic health through job creation, skill upleveling, banking access, financial literacy, violence prevention, housing support and more.
Funding Types
Investments
Up to $500,000
Loans
Up to $500,000
Grants
Up to $250,000
We direct the type and size of funding based on community needs, program deliverables, reach and issue-specific measures. Occasionally, we combine different funding instruments to help organizations achieve their goals.
Funding Opportunities Now Open
We’re looking for organizations that are translating evidence-based science research and clinical know-how into solutions that address health care access and quality, food security, economic empowerment or a combination of these three social drivers of health.
For-profit and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply for funding from the Social Impact Funds. For geographic-specific opportunities, applicants must be local to the community.
New York City
Application window: March 3, 2025 (8 a.m. ET) – June 6, 2025 (5 p.m. ET)
Apply for NYC social impact funding
Nationwide
Applications accepted year-round.
Apply for general project funding
Fighting Food Insecurity
Applications for solutions to food insecurity are accepted year-round as we work together with the American Heart Association’s national efforts to build a future of healthy eating.
Apply for food security project funding
Special Initiative: Loneliness & Isolation
Applications for projects and programs that address isolation and loneliness in older adults and support for caregivers are accepted year-round.
Apply for funding to address loneliness & isolation
The Empowered to Serve Business Accelerator®
Igniting impact by accelerating health equity focused founders through remote training and grant opportunities.
