About Chc Creating Healthier Communities
We exist so that every person in every community has an opportunity to live their healthiest life.
Focus Areas
maternal healthmaternal mortality / preterm birth preventioncancer prevention (breast, cervical, HPV)vaccination equitycommunity health and health equityworkplace giving / fundraising supportfiscal sponsorship and fiscal agencydisaster relief
Who They Fund
general publicresearchers and academicseducators and teacherspolicy makers
About Chc Creating Healthier Communities
Chc Creating Healthier Communities repeatedly directs large grants to research and public education organizations, with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital receiving the biggest award in the recent list at $4,040,452 in 2023 and additional awards of $3,652,686 in 2024 and $3,659,720 in 2025. That pattern points to a funder that sustains multi-year relationships rather than one-off gifts. The same recent-grants list also shows seven-figure support for Doctors Without Borders USA, including $1,118,049 in 2025, alongside substantial awards to American Cancer Society and other health nonprofits. The foundation’s stated mission is broad but specific: it seeks to help every person in every community live their healthiest life. Its active programs reinforce that orientation, combining disease prevention, maternal health, vaccination equity, disaster relief, and nonprofit partnership support. Recent awards also show work across research dissemination and public education, indicating that the foundation funds both service delivery and the communication of health information. Its recent grantees include organizations working in cancer, maternal health, emergency response, and chronic disease. The grant history suggests a national health funder that uses both large institutional grants and targeted initiative-based support to address public health access and equity.
What Chc Creating Healthier Communities Funds
Cancer prevention is a visible thread in the portfolio. Through the Breast and Cervical Cancer Initiative, Chc Creating Healthier Communities funds community partners working on breast and cervical cancer screening, treatment referrals, and outreach for Black and Latine communities. In the recent grants list, The Center for Black Women’s Wellness received $350,000 in 2024, and Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Georgia received $345,527 in 2025 for related public education and health equity work. Maternal health is another defined area. The Black Birthing Initiative / Better Birth Initiative was launched in January 2022 to improve maternal health outcomes and address unmet social determinants of health. Recent grants include $390,853 to Birthing Beautiful Communities in 2024 and $243,782 to Henry Ford Health in 2025. Vaccination equity also appears in the program structure. The Vaccination Equity Initiative supports HPV prevention, education, awareness, and access to vaccination in underserved Georgia communities, and CHC has awarded both rapid-response mini-grants and larger awards under that initiative.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$12.2M
Total Assets
$19.2M
Total Revenue
$17.4M
Total Expenses
$19.5M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $7K and $35K, with a median of $13K.
25th Percentile
$7K
Median
$13K
75th Percentile
$35K
Geographic Reach
National31 states funded
About 6% of grants go to recipients in CO.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
JEAN ACCIUS
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