About Action for Healthy Kids
Action for Healthy Kids is a national nonprofit that partners with school districts, families, and communities to create healthier learning environments where every child can thrive. We foster learning environments that support optimal child health and well-being by ensuring students have access to safe places to play and be active, nutritious foods, and healthy, supportive experiences.
Focus Areas
School nutritionHealthy meals incentivesNutrition educationPhysical activity in schoolsSocial-emotional learningYouth risk behavior preventionFamily engagementSchool wellness policy
Who They Fund
K-12 studentspublic and private schoolsteachers and school staff
About Action for Healthy Kids
Action for Healthy Kids centers school wellness as a funding strategy, backing districts and schools that work on nutrition, physical activity, social-emotional health, and family engagement. In the latest grants listed, the foundation repeatedly awarded $27,500 school grants to districts such as Buena Park School District and Los Angeles Unified School District, showing a consistent project-level approach rather than broad, unrestricted support. The organization’s grantmaking aligns with its broader mission to create healthier learning environments where students have access to safe places to play and be active, nutritious foods, and supportive experiences. That emphasis appears in both its program portfolio and its recent awards. The current record also points to direct support for school systems rather than individuals, with grants flowing to public school districts across multiple states. California appears often in the recent awards, including Buena Park and Los Angeles, while the same school-grant pattern extends to districts in Texas, Colorado, and Tennessee. Across those awards, the foundation’s work looks tightly connected to school operations and student health, especially where districts are trying to improve wellness through local programming.
What Action for Healthy Kids Funds
School nutrition is a clear throughline. Action for Healthy Kids administers the Healthy Meals Incentives initiative, which provides recognition awards and subgrants to School Food Authorities and school districts that improve meal quality and involve students and families in nutrition education and meal planning. The foundation also supports physical activity in schools. Its Game On Grants program has funded school physical activity and active play, including a partnership with GoGo squeeZ that awarded grants to 50 schools for the 2017–2018 school year. Family-school partnerships show up in its outreach around school grants, with parent-targeted calls to action and school success stories. The organization also ties its grantmaking to school wellness, social-emotional health, and youth risk behavior prevention, reflecting a whole-child framework rather than a single-program model.
How Action for Healthy Kids Gives
The recent grant list shows a narrow size band: the 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile are all $27,500. That suggests a highly standardized school-grant format in the current dataset, with one smaller $6,000 award also appearing. The foundation’s pattern is project-specific and school-targeted, and it does not fund individuals. The grants shown are all from 2024, and the available record points to annual grantmaking rather than open-ended, multi-year awards. Its active programs include both unsolicited opportunities and programmatic awards, with school grants, recognition awards, and USDA-linked subgrants among the mechanisms used.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$12.2M
Total Assets
$3M
Total Revenue
$21M
Total Expenses
$21.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $28K and $28K, with a median of $28K.
25th Percentile
$28K
Median
$28K
75th Percentile
$28K
Geographic Reach
Regional4 states funded
About 0% of grants go to recipients in CA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
ROBERT F BISCEGLIE
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