Apply for a Grant
The CareSource Foundation provides grants to non-profit organizations who impact children, adults and families in areas that mirror the social determinants of health. Those include:
- Economic stability
- Safe, healthy homes and neighborhoods
- Job skills and employment
- Access to healthcare including physical, mental and behavioral health
- Early childhood education and child development
- Healthy behaviors and lifestyle concerns
- Public policy surrounding critical need health issues
- Strategic public/private partnerships designed to increase healthy communities
Grant Guidelines
- Requesting organizations must be based in the state of Ohio
- Proposing organizations must be IRS-qualified 501(c)3 non-profit organizations
- Grant applications are accepted throughout the year; no formal deadlines
- Grant applications are reviewed six (6) times/year: January, March, May, July, September, November
- Preference will be given to those applicants working with populations parallel to the CareSource consumer demographic and those who most closely mirror the funding priorities above
- Grantees will be contacted by email with the outcome of their proposal within two weeks of the final review period
- Single-year funding only
- The Foundation will fund either program grants or operating grants—the choice is up to the requesting organization
- All successful grantees will agree to a formal end-of-grant evaluation process
- Organizations may not apply for grants in consecutive years – at least one year must lapse between the end of the grant before organizations may apply for additional funding (i.e., a grantee in 2015 will not be eligible to reapply for funding until 2017)
- Responsive grants are $5,000
Grant Restrictions
As a result of policy, law or funding restrictions, the CareSource Foundation will generally not fund:
- Organizations that discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, veteran status or any applicable federal, state or local laws
- Organizations without 501(c)3 IRS tax exemption status
- Individual primary or secondary schools; however, a school partner may be considered
- Sectarian organizations having a predominantly religious purpose
- Political parties, offices or individual candidates
- Fundraising events or benefits
- Individuals
- Capital campaigns
- Fraternal or veteran organizations
- Scholarships or educational fees
- Organizations who cannot provide adequate accounting records or procedures
- Colleges and universities
- Funding for deficits or debt retirement
- Disease-specific organizations with multiple chapters throughout Ohio
- Camps
- Equine therapy programs
- Individual hospital, hospital network or hospital foundation requests
- Residential services
- “Wish” organizations
- Organizations leveraging sports as the basis for service delivery
Apply
To Apply for a Responsive Grant from the CareSource Foundation:
- Review the mission of the Foundation and the priority funding focus areas
- If you believe your organization and/or program is a good fit, please email Cathy Ponitz, Vice President of the CareSource Foundation (Cathy.Ponitz@caresource.com) with the following:
- Brief overview of the organization
- Where your program or organization fits within the social determinants of health priority funding areas
- The CareSource Foundation utilizes an online grant management system for all grant applications
- Upon successful review, you will be invited to apply by email from Cathy Ponitz. The email will contain links to establish your CareSource Foundation account and complete the application process
- Paper requests are not accepted
- Our online grant management system is compatible with the following web browsers:
- Internet Explorer (IE 11)
- Mozilla Firefox (v 45 or later)
- Safari for Mac
- It is not compatible with Google Chrome
- Use this Online Application and Reporting Navigation Guide to help you with your application
- For specific questions about the online application process, please send an email to: CareSourceFoundation@caresource.com
- If you believe your organization and/or program is a good fit, please email Cathy Ponitz, Vice President of the CareSource Foundation (Cathy.Ponitz@caresource.com) with the following:
- Review the mission of the Foundation and the priority funding focus areas
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