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Funding Opportunities
St. David’s Foundation invests more than $85 million annually across our Central Texas region. We focus on removing barriers to better living today and changing systems and conditions to improve outcomes for a healthier community tomorrow.
2025 Funding Opportunities
The 2025 funding opportunities were informed by data and insights from previous work, conversations with our community and grant partners, and alignment with the strategic plan, Pathways to Health Equity. We support and work alongside organizations that align with our efforts to advance equity in Central Texas focusing on communities with the greatest health needs.
Below is an overview of the funding opportunities for 2025. More information on each funding opportunity, along with a link to apply, will be added closer to the release dates noted. We encourage you to visit this page for additional information throughout the year.
Open Call
Pathways to Economic Stability for Healthcare Workforce
Release Date: March 2025
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This funding opportunity intends to address healthcare workforce shortages while fostering economic stability for historically marginalized communities. Grants will support collaborative, region-wide efforts to create pathways to healthcare employment that offer opportunities for financial stability and long-term career growth. By removing economic barriers and creating equitable access to healthcare careers, we can improve health outcomes for individuals and communities while strengthening the healthcare workforce in Central Texas.
Organizations with both proven and innovative ideas to support collaborative, region-wide pathways to healthcare sector employment for communities with the greatest health needs will be prioritized.
Open Call
Healthy Births, Healthy Communities
Release Date: July 2025
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Healthy mothers are essential to building a healthy, vibrant family and Central Texas community. Central Texas faces alarming disparities in birth and maternal health outcomes, particularly for Black women. To improve maternal health equity and address the root causes of disparities in birth and maternal health outcomes, this funding opportunity will build on the Foundation’s long-term investments in women’s health.
The open call will be informed by community leaders and people with lived experiences through convenings and conversations in early 2025.
Open Call
Culturally Responsive Mental Health Support
Release Date: July 2025
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This funding opportunity will explore how to expand access to timely, equity-driven mental health support for communities with the greatest need and the least access. Culturally responsive care ensures that individuals receive tailored, effective care that honors their racial and cultural identities. Conversations and convenings in the first half of 2025 with community members and organizations will inform the open call. Grants will support organizations working to:
- increase mental health and wellness supports within trusted, accessible community spaces (including in clinical and non-clinical settings)
- increase the number of culturally responsive providers in traditional and non-traditional roles through training, certification, or other methods
Invitation
Housing + Health
Release Date: September 2025
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For many Central Texans, the high cost of housing forces difficult trade-offs, leaving little room for essential health and basic needs. This strain creates stress and instability that erodes health and limits opportunity. Helping our region make progress on housing, particularly for families struggling to make ends meet, will unlock opportunities in other vital areas such as health, education, employment, and more.
The Foundation plans to learn from our current Housing + Health grantees and other community members working in the affordable housing space to inform a funding opportunity designed to strengthen our region’s capacity to provide safe, stable affordable housing for communities with the greatest needs.
Invitation
Support for Safety Net Care
Release Date: October 2025
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To advance health equity in Central Texas, our region will need to increase the number of residents who receive effective, affordable, timely, and culturally responsive care. Doing so will require strengthening Central Texas’ safety net system, which includes Federally Qualified Health Centers, serving approximately 80% of the uninsured in our region, along with other safety net clinics.
The Foundation will develop a funding opportunity for clinics serving the uninsured based on quantitative data about the needs in Central Texas and through community conversations and convenings, including current safety net grantees. Funding will build on the Foundation’s long-term investments in the safety net system, including support for Federally Qualified Health Centers and other clinics serving the uninsured.
Additional Funding
St. David’s Foundation plans to make rolling funding available in the summer of 2025. This new funding mechanism will provide small one-time grants for time-sensitive and topic-specific needs.
Questions?
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
There are currently no open funding opportunities.
We encourage you to visit this page for updates as new funding opportunities are announced. Funding will be available through a variety of mechanisms including open calls, invitations, and rolling funding.
Past Opportunities
Libraries for Health
Perinatal Safe Zone
Connecting Generations, Strengthening Communities
Central Texas Home Visiting Grant Program
The CAPABLE Model: An Aging in Place Intervention
Health Starts at Home
Focus on the Fourth
Grantmaking
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