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.
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.
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.
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.
$226K
$2.4M
$3.4M
$4.1M
Most grants fall between $28K and $28K, with a median of $28K.
25th Percentile
$28K
Median
$28K
75th Percentile
$28K
About 0% of grants go to recipients in CA.
ROBERT F BISCEGLIE
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Grantmaking is regional, with recipients located entirely in the United States. California is the most frequent recipient state in the recent list, including Buena Park, Los Angeles, Borrego Springs, Upland, and Fresno. Other awards in the sample reached Irving, Texas; Brush, Colorado; White County, Tennessee; and Grand Junction, Colorado. No grants in the provided list went to recipients in Illinois, despite the foundation’s Chicago headquarters.
The foundation funds school districts, School Food Authorities, and schools working on whole-child health. Its active programs and grant descriptions point to school nutrition, physical activity, social-emotional health, family engagement, and school wellness policy as the main areas of support.
The recent grant data is tightly clustered at $27,500. The 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile are all $27,500, which indicates a standardized grant amount in the current sample.
California is the top recipient state in the recent grants list. The named California recipients include Buena Park School District, Los Angeles Unified School District, Borrego Springs Unified School District, Upland Unified School District, and Fresno Unified School District.
Yes, at least some of its active programs do. The Healthy Meals Incentives Initiative and School Grants opportunities are marked as accepting unsolicited requests, while the broader AFHK School Grants & Support description is marked as not accepting unsolicited applications.
2024
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2024.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUENA PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT | BUENA PARK, CA | $27,500 | 2024 | SCHOOL GRANT |
| LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | LOS ANGELES, CA | $27,500 | 2024 | SCHOOL GRANT |
| IRVING INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | IRVING, TX | $27,500 | 2024 | SCHOOL GRANT |
| BRUSH SCHOOL DISTRICT RE-B2-J | BRUSH, CO | $27,500 | 2024 | SCHOOL GRANT |
| WHITE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | SPARTA, TN | $27,500 | 2024 | SCHOOL GRANT |
| BORREGO SPRINGS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | BORREGO SPGS, CA | $27,500 | 2024 | SCHOOL GRANT |
| UPLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | UPLAND, CA | $27,500 | 2024 | SCHOOL GRANT |
| FRESNO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | FRESNO, CA | $27,500 | 2024 | SCHOOL GRANT |
| MESA COUNTY VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT 51 | GRAND JUNCTION, CO | $6,000 | 2024 | SCHOOL GRANT |
BUENA PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT
$27,500SCHOOL GRANT
LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
$27,500SCHOOL GRANT
IRVING INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
$27,500SCHOOL GRANT
BRUSH SCHOOL DISTRICT RE-B2-J
$27,500SCHOOL GRANT
WHITE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
$27,500SCHOOL GRANT
BORREGO SPRINGS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
$27,500SCHOOL GRANT
UPLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
$27,500SCHOOL GRANT
FRESNO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
$27,500SCHOOL GRANT
MESA COUNTY VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT 51
$6,000SCHOOL GRANT
Current and upcoming funding from Action for Healthy Kids that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: School Food Authorities meeting HMI Recognition Award criteria may receive recognition; small and/or rural school districts are eligible for subgrants under the initiative.
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