In July 2024, St. David’s Foundation launched the Investing in Impact: Community Directed Giving through Intermediaries funding opportunity, which sought to invest in the capacity of community-rooted intermediaries with the potential to re-grant St. David’s Foundation funding to serve low-resourced entities, emerging nonprofits, grassroots organizations with limited infrastructure, neighborhood associations, informal community networks, community-based initiatives, and community constituents toward the Foundation’s mission of advancing health equity.

A total of $4.5M in funding was awarded through eight grants. We invite you to explore this page and learn more about the grant recipients.

Funding Opportunity Overview

The Investing in Impact funding opportunity was focused on building the capacity of intermediary organizations to re-grant Foundation resources through a community-directed and participatory process that reflects the needs, voices, and priorities of communities with the greatest health needs.

Through this grantmaking effort, our goal was to learn with awarded grantees how organizations operating as intermediaries could allow the Foundation to leverage local expertise and insights to identify organizations, networks, initiatives, and services that would have the greatest impact and address the most needed health priorities in communities and regions with the most significant health needs. Grants will be used to strengthen the capacity of the intermediary organization to be a more effective, community-accountable partner in distributing resources in the service of advancing health equity.

Long-term success will be realized when the Central Texas funder ecosystem includes a more robust infrastructure that brings resources closer to the communities with the greatest health needs in our region.

The grants made under this call align with the Foundation’s goal to equip communities to achieve their own health priorities with the objective to support community-directed giving through initiatives and institutions to advance health equity.

Grant recipients received an unrestricted, two-year grant.

View an informational webinar recording for Investing in Impact here.

Eligibility Requirements

• Operate in one or more of the following Central Texas counties: Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, or Williamson.
• A tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
• Evidence of:
  • Functioning as an intermediary organization
  • Potential to re-grant Foundation resources through a community-directed process that reflects the needs, voices, and priorities of communities with the greatest health needs

Grant Recipients

Eight grants totaling $4.5M in funding were awarded as part of the Investing in Impact funding opportunity.

• Austin Community Foundation (Hispanic Impact Fund and Women’s Fund)
• Austin Community Foundation (The Black Fund)
• Bastrop County Cares 
• Central Texas Community Foundation 
• Community Action Inc of Central Texas 
• Dawa – Diversity Awareness and Wellness in Action 
• El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission 
• Fayette Community Foundation