Competitive Grant Cycle (Letter of Inquiry)
A large Southeast Texas health funder making competitive grants around three impact drivers — strengthening comprehensive care, activating community voices, and maximizing connections to health coverage and benefits — with strategic priorities in food and nutrition security, maternal health and diabetes prevention. Community-voice and coverage-navigation work is a natural fit for social work practice partners, though the Foundation is explicit that it generally does not fund standalone research.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)The grantmaking page cites $19.2 million awarded across Cycle 1 in aggregate but publishes no per-award range for Cycle 2, so both amount fields are left null.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Jun, Jul, SepPublished deadline: 2026-09-04 — passed. Kept for reference; check the funder's page for the next cycle.Cycle 2 published timeline: LOI opened June 23, 2026, LOI deadline July 10, 2026 (now closed), full application deadline September 4, 2026 at 5 p.m. for invited applicants, award notifications December 18, 2026. The page states the next competitive grant opportunity will be announced in Fall 2026.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicants must be nonprofit and tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) and must not be private foundations under Section 509(a). All funded work must be implemented within the 81-county service area of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. A university is not the typical grantee: a social work researcher would participate through a community grantee's project, or respond to a commissioned research RFP that the Foundation issues separately.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- maternal health · food and nutrition security · diabetes prevention · health coverage enrollment · community voice
- Apply at
- https://www.episcopalhealth.org/grantmaking/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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