Intermountain Community Care Foundation Grants

Intermountain’s Priority Areas

The Intermountain Community Care Foundation aligns its grant funding with priorities identified during our Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). The CHNA helps us to identify significant community health needs, especially for low-income residents in Utah and southern Idaho communities. Based on the CHNA, our priorities areas are outlined below each grant opportunity. 

Grant Opportunities

The Intermountain Community Care Foundation offers grants in three categories:

  • Agency Health Priority Grants
  • Social Determinants of Health Grants
  • Child and Family Mental Well-Being Grants

Each category has a different criteria and scope and separate applications.

Agency Health Priority Grant

In order to qualify for Agency Health Priority grant funding, your program or service must align with one of the following health priorities:

  • Mental Well-being
    • Reduce suicide deaths
    • Reduce frequent mental distress, including anxiety and depression
    • Decrease opioid misuse
  • Prevent Injury & Disease
    • Prevention of High-blood Pressure
    • Prevention of Diabetes
    • Immunizations
  • Access to comprehensive medical, dental, and/or behavioral health care

Social Determinants of Health Grants

In order to qualify for Social Determinants of Health grant funding, your program or service must:

  • Align with at least one of Intermountain’s social determinants of health priorities, which are:
    • Nutrition insecurity – not having reliable access to enough affordable, nutritious food
    • Housing instability – having difficulty paying rent or affording a stable place of one’s own; living in overcrowded or run-down conditions that create an unhealthy environment
  • Required that a social service agency and a healthcare agency apply in partnership
    • Social service agency is defined as a government, private or not-for-profit entity that provides a direct service/program that focuses on the needs of low-income, vulnerable populations and include state government agencies, local government agencies, and school districts
    • Healthcare agency is defined as an organization that provides a billable healthcare service and uses evidence-based practices to provide a direct healthcare service
  • Both agencies must have a full and complete audit. Submission must include the full audit, including any findings or letter from the auditing firm.
  • Both agencies must have a 501C3 letter of determination or have a comparable government designation
  • Your application must show a clear partnership that works together toward measurable goals and outcomes that address one or more of the listed social determinants of health. You will be asked to clearly describe the planned role and responsibilities of each partner for all stages of the project or program.  
  • Applications will be accepted for either new or existing programs that clearly address a social determinant of health. New programs can include pilot programs.
  • Applicants can request a total grant award between $50,000 and $300,000 for the entire project period. Projects can last between 18 and 36 months and must begin upon receipt of funding. A funding request may not exceed 20 percent of an organization’s annual operating budget, e.g., to be eligible for a $50,000 grant, your organization’s annual operating budget must be at least $250,000.
  • In general, small equipment and materials, such as jump ropes or cooking utensils are eligible, at no more than a total $5,000 cost, but large equipment, construction and capital costs are not eligible. Consideration will be given if computer equipment is necessary and vital to the success of the project.
  • All grantees will be required to submit outcomes reports and will be expected to track and share aggregated data about their projects and participants.

Child and Family Mental Well-Being Grants

In order to qualify for Child and Family Mental Well-Being funding, your program or service must target families with children. Funding priority areas include:

  • Prevention and early intervention
  • Comprehensive programs that include the entire family
  • Trauma Informed System for young children
  • Community Coalitions

What We'd Really Like To See

  • Innovative projects with measurable results
  • Projects that promote significant and lasting change
  • Projects that are specific, well-defined and cost-effective
  • Projects that focus on increasing access for low-income, uninsured, or underrepresented populations

How Much Should You Ask For?

If the program for which you seek funding falls into one of the above categories, you are invited to make application for funding.

To honor the time and energy of the Board in reviewing your application – as well as your time and energy in preparing the grant application – please don't apply unless your program or project fits into one of the categories listed above.

If you have any questions as to whether your project qualifies, please contact us and we'll be happy to discuss it with you. The majority of our grants are in the $5,000 to $50,000 range. Over two-thirds are at or under $15,000.

When to Apply

Intermountain Community Care Foundation social determinants of health grant applications can only be accepted between February 1 and March 1, and then August 1 to September 1. If you attempt to apply during times other than those windows, you will not be able to apply.

We DO NOT Fund

  • Political campaigns, political action committees, lobbyists or organizations with a political agenda
  • Individuals
  • Fraternal organizations, clubs, school organizations and school athletic funds
  • General operating budget of organizations which receive more than 40 percent of their budget from United Way
  • Religious organizations (unless the request is specifically for a program offered to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis and without regard to the recipient’s religious affiliation and does not require worship as a prerequisite for treatment or care)
  • Debt retirement or operational deficits
  • Trips, tours or travel expenses
  • Other foundations or endowments that provide loans, scholarships or donate the money they raise to other agencies
  • Media or advocacy campaigns, research or surveys
  • Races, runs, walks, school or athletic clubs, school fairs, and golf tournaments
  • Services for which third-party reimbursement or pharmacy assistance programs are available
  • Matching funds for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits doubling programs