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UniHealth Foundation’s Board of Directors Approves $6.53 Million in June 2026 Grants Docket
We are proud to partner with 16 outstanding organizations that are working to make healthcare more accessible for those who need it most, at a time when barriers across the health system are growing. This docket reflects mounting gaps in population-specific care, resource navigation, and workforce development, and highlights nonprofit leaders that are paving the way toward change.
We are dedicated to our three funding strategies: Population & Community Health, Healthcare Delivery Systems, and Healthcare Workforce. Explore our grants database to learn more about what UniHealth Foundation supports.
Summer 2026 Grants
The Achievable Foundation
The Achievable Foundation’s (Achievable Health) expansion project will increase access to specialized, high-quality healthcare services for underserved community members, including individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Funds will support the onboarding of key care team members to expand patient capacity; reduce barriers to care; and strengthen coordinated, patient-centered services for vulnerable community members.
Funding Strategy: Population & Community Health, Healthcare Delivery Systems
Amount: $150,000
Term: 12 months or less
Adventist Health Glendale Foundation
Adventist Health Glendale Foundation’s Regional Behavioral Health Training and Violence Prevention Initiative strengthens responses to behavioral health crises, reduces workplace violence, and enhances patient safety. Through targeted training and embedded behavioral health support, the program will build staff confidence; improve patient outcomes; and foster safer, more compassionate care across Southern California hospitals.
Funding Strategy: Healthcare Workforce
Amount: $400,000
Term: 24 months
CROP Organization
CROP Organization will hire a full-time licensed clinical social worker to provide trauma-informed mental health counseling and wellness programming for justice-impacted fellows in Los Angeles. UniHealth Foundation’s grant award will fund 12-months of robust, culturally responsive care to promote a healing reentry journey, long-term stability and life skills preparation.
Funding Strategy: Population & Community Health, Healthcare Workforce
Amount: $300,000
Term: 24 months
Emanate Health Foundation
Bridges to Health expands preventive and primary care access across the San Gabriel Valley by embedding family medicine residents and community health workers in trusted community settings. Combining data-informed outreach with culturally responsive care, the initiative will reduce preventable hospitalizations; strengthen the primary care workforce; and advance equitable, community-centered healthcare delivery.
Funding Strategy: Population & Community Health, Healthcare Delivery Systems, Healthcare Workforce
Amount: $500,000
Term: 36 months
Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services
Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services’ (Sycamores) Growing Together program will improve child and maternal physical and mental health outcomes in the Antelope Valley. A grant from UniHealth Foundation will help Sycamores provide prenatal and postpartum support/services including birth preparation, nutrition classes, infant massage, Baby Signs (pre-verbal sign language), lactation support, mental health education, peer support, child development, and referrals for mental healthcare.
Funding Strategy: Population & Community Health
Amount: $240,000
Term: 24 months
The Health Consortium of Greater San Gabriel Valley (Health Consortium) (Fiscal Agent: Public Health Foundation Enterprises, Inc.)
The Health Consortium of Greater San Gabriel Valley’s (Health Consortium) award from UniHealth Foundation will support its Healthy Food Access for Community Health Center Patients program. The grant will help reduce food insecurity and advance Food is Medicine strategies for clinic patients with chronic conditions in the San Gabriel Valley. The program will strengthen healthcare-food partnerships, offer clinic-based farmers markets and produce prescriptions, and build a sustainable model for ongoing services.
Funding Strategy: Population & Community Health
Amount: $570,000
Term: 24 months
Olive Crest
Olive Crest’s Altadena Supportive Housing project provides young women exiting foster care, often surviving exploitation and housing insecurity due to the Los Angeles wildfires with safe housing, community, and trauma informed supports. Furnished cottages will create housing stability, health, and long-term well-being through 24/7 case management, mental health care, and life-skills support.
Funding Strategy: Population & Community Health
Amount: $300,000
Term: 36 months
ACE Resource Network (Fiscal Agent: Panorama Global)
Staffed by ACE Resource Network, this project is scaling efforts to make ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and toxic stress screening a standard part of healthcare in Los Angeles by embedding prevention into Medicaid. The project will launch a network coalition and build a provider coalition to drive adoption of the ACEs Aware model through training, evaluation, and communications.
Funding Strategy: Population & Community Health, Healthcare Delivery Systems, Healthcare Workforce
Amount: $400,000
Term: 24 months
Pasadena Public Health Department (Fiscal Agent: Pasadena Community Foundation)
Led by the Pasadena Public Health Department, TB Clinician Engagement and Action for Response (TB CLEAR) is an enhanced clinician case management and outreach program. The project is designed to promote and foster evidence-based management of tuberculosis by clinicians and other healthcare professionals in a patient’s medical home.
Funding Strategy: Population & Community Health, Healthcare Delivery Systems
Amount: $550,000
Term: 24 months
The Regents of University of California at Irvine
The Regents of University of California at Irvine’s School of Nursing will establish a nurse-led psychiatric clinic to expand mental health access for underserved communities in Los Angeles and Orange Counties’ federally designated shortage areas. By the third year, the clinic will deliver more than 8,500 outpatient psychiatric visits annually to 2,000-2,500 unique patients while training the next generation of psychiatric nurse practitioners.
Funding Strategy: Population & Community Health, Healthcare Delivery Systems, Healthcare Workforce
Amount: $600,000
Term: 36 months
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California
Funds from UniHealth Foundation will help Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California (RMHC Southern California) hire critical personnel to staff their upcoming Westside Los Angeles House. When fully opened, their new site will serve upwards of 200 families annually referred to by UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and neighboring westside hospitals.
Funding Strategy: Population & Community Health
Amount: $150,000
Term: 12 months or less
Seed House Project
Seed House Project (SHP) will launch a transition year aftercare program that provides one year of stabilizing support to individuals who have moved from SHP’s two-year residential program into their own homes. Staff will help individuals find steady footing through mental health services, case management, life coaching, and financial skill-building and support.
Funding Strategy: Population & Community Health
Amount: $200,000
Term: 24 months
University Muslim Medical Association, Inc.
Funding will provide start-up support for the University Muslim Medical Association, Inc.’s (UMMA) newest Figueroa Care Center, the first site in South LA to make urgent care readily accessible to Medi-Cal and uninsured populations. Through integrated workflows and care coordination, UMMA will become a health home for these patients, supporting preventive screenings, chronic disease management, and behavioral health services.
Funding Strategy: Population & Community Health
Amount: $150,000
Term: 12 months or less
VIP Community Mental Health Center
With support from a UniHealth Foundation program-related investment (PRI), VIP Community Mental Health Center is renovating the former Central Juvenile Hall into a 40,000-square-foot campus for children, youth, and families, replacing confinement with healing. The campus will co-locate psychotherapy, psychiatry, case management, tutoring, and intensive support services under one roof, with a specialized focus on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Built for foster youth and high-risk families facing trauma and instability, this trauma-informed campus transforms a place once defined by confinement into one defined by hope.
Funding Strategy: Population & Community Health, Healthcare Delivery Systems
Amount: $1,500,000
Term: 60 months
Walking Shield, Inc.
Funds will help Walking Shield launch Supporting Lifelong Mental Health for Native Americans, a new program that will address a critical need to improve mental health for Native communities in Los Angeles and Orange County. The program will improve access to existing mental health services, increase referrals to services, facilitate preventive education programs, and support regional networks of providers to inform, educate, and improve the health status of Native individuals and families living in Southern California.
Funding Strategy: Healthcare Delivery Systems
Amount: $220,000
Term: 24 months
Westside Infant-Family Network
Westside Infant-Family Network (WIN Los Angeles) will strengthen early caregiver-child relationships in South LA through a blended approach of Talk, Touch and Listen groups for African American families, Attachment Vitamins curriculum, and related interventions. The project will build provider capacity, reduce parenting stress, and develop a culturally responsive model to improve early relational health.
Funding Strategy: Population & Community Health
Amount: $300,000
Term: 36 months
The UniHealth Foundation Board of Directors Approves Third Round of Wildfire Recovery Grants to Support Community Restoration
UniHealth’s November grants docket awarded $1.75 million to seven organizations that will provide essential mental health services to survivors of the Eaton and Palisades fires. We joined the California Community Foundation’s Community Healing & Restoration Initiative as an inaugural partner, increasing UniHealth’s total fire relief grantmaking to $4.35 million.
