Grants
The Kaiser Permanente Southern California Grants Program provides support to nonprofit organizations in Kaiser Permanente service areas throughout Southern California. More specifically, we provide support to those organizations that offer direct healthcare services or address public policy aimed at improving community health.
Current Funding Priorities
Our current funding priorities include:
- Care and Coverage of Low-Income Families
- Safety Net Partnerships
- Community Health Initiatives
- Develop and Disseminate Knowledge
Care and Coverage of Low-Income Families:
- Leverages Kaiser Permanente's strengths to improve the health of Southern California's uninsured through expanded access to health coverage and care.
- Emphasizes strategic partnerships that impact communities and provides subsidized coverage of low-income populations.
- Focus areas include: Charitable health coverage programs, charity care, children's health initiatives, Medi-Cal member and Medi-Cal fee for service, and Healthy Families.
Safety Net Partnerships:
- Deepens community clinic partnerships that increase the capacity for improving access and quality care infrastructure, and extends partnerships to health departments and public hospitals.
- Focus areas include: chronic disease management, access to specialty care, homeless services, quality improvement, nurse practitioner fellowship, access to primary care, HIV/AIDS, public health, capacity building and core operating support, and healthy aging/senior health.
Video: Health Care from the Ground Up
Kaiser Permanente partnered with the East Valley Medical Center in providing facility support and construction services to a community clinic serving the East San Gabriel and Pomona Valley areas of Southern California.
Community Health Initiatives:
- Promotes healthy eating and active living in communities through policy and environmental change that will reduce obesity rates and the incidence of preventable diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
- Focus areas include: partnerships with associations and policy makers, parks strategy, building upon Safety Net Partnerships, smart growth/land use, and Educational Outreach Program for youths.
Develop and Disseminate Knowledge:
- Educates practitioners, advances research, empowers consumers, and informs policy makers on important community health needs and issues.
- Focus areas include: residency program, residency training - diversity recruitment, Educational Theatre Programs, workforce development, public policy and leadership development, and the Watts Counseling and Learning Center - health awareness, social justice, and civic engagement.
Funding Limitations
Kaiser Permanente Southern California Region is prohibited from participating in partisan political activity. Kaiser Permanente will generally not consider funding requests for the following: Golf tournaments, sports teams, individuals, religious purposes, endowments or memorials. Kaiser Permanente will not participate in events or activities sponsored by alcohol or tobacco corporations or organizations which promote their use.
Grants Program Manager Contact Info
(626) 405-5999 or so.cal.grants@kp.org
A Letter of Inquiry (LOI) is the first step in the process of applying for a grant, to be followed by a full application only upon invitation from the Community Benefit department. The LOI guidelines will assess the potential fit between your organization’s objectives and Kaiser Permanente’s funding priorities, and will give instructions on how to complete and submit an LOI.
