Grant Details

The goal of the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) is to support projects that have the potential to improve health at a regional or statewide level, particularly for the most vulnerable New Yorkers.

NYSHealth awards grants in the following categories:

1. Healthy Food, Healthy Lives - The overarching goal is to connect New Yorkers with the food they need to thrive. To achieve this goal, we focus on four strategies: (1) support healthy, more equitable food systems planning and capacity-building; (2) maximize nutrition benefit programs; (3) support healthier, culturally responsive food purchasing in public institutions; and (4) promote Food Is Medicine interventions.
2. Primary Care - Our overarching goal is to expand, advance, and enhance primary care across New York State. To achieve this goal, we focus on three intersecting strategies, which will be shaped and refined as we move ahead: (1) expanding primary care access and capacity; (2) advancing racial health equity; and (3) strengthening the primary care workforce.
3. Special Projects Fund- Grants through our Special Projects Fund allow us to support projects that address an important health care or public health issue in the State, but are outside of our targeted priority areas. Eligible projects are coordinated interventions that take place over a specified period of time to achieve quantifiable results.
4. Veterans Health- The NYSHealth Initiative for Returning Veterans and Their Families seeks to underscore that the health care, mental health, and social services issues returning veterans and their families face are not solely military issues, but public and community health issues that should be addressed by local and national government agencies, community-based organizations, and health funders.