Massachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging Funds
A statewide pool built from hospital Determination of Need community benefit contributions that re-distributes money to communities historically left out of health investment, funding policy/systems/environmental change, healthy aging work and Community Health Improvement Plans.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No per-award range is published. The site reports cumulative results only: $45.9 million awarded across 82 grants serving 200 cities and towns.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Funding rounds open periodically. At the time of checking the site stated 'Applications Are Now Closed' with no next date posted; watch the Funds site and the MA DPH DoN Community Health Funds page for the next round.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Grants go to community-based organizations and coalitions in Massachusetts; the site does not publish an eligibility list, and it does not state that universities may be lead applicants, so a researcher's realistic route is as an evaluation or documentation partner to a community grantee. Applications were closed at the time of checking.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- community health · health equity · healthy aging · policy systems environmental change · community health improvement plans
- Apply at
- https://mahealthfunds.org/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
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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