Essential Access Health

About Essential Access Health

Essential Access Health’s recent grantmaking is anchored by large program-support awards to Planned Parenthood affiliates and California safety-net providers, with the biggest single recent grant reaching $5,343,454 to Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest in San Diego. The pattern is consistent across 2024 and 2025: multi-million-dollar awards recur to the same service organizations, including Planned Parenthood Mar Monte in San Jose and Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles. Beyond those core providers, the foundation also funds reproductive-health access groups such as Access Reproductive Justice in Oakland and community-based organizations like Birthworkers of Color Collective in Long Beach. The grants point to a funder that supports direct service delivery, outreach, and program operations rather than one-off project experiments. Its stated priorities include sexual and reproductive health, family planning, abortion access, STI prevention, clinical research, provider training, telehealth, and youth sexual health education. The beneficiary profile also includes eligible individuals and families in California and Hawaii, alongside people of reproductive age seeking family planning services. Across the recent record, the foundation’s giving is concentrated in California, but the grant list shows repeated support for organizations serving broad reproductive-health access needs.

What Essential Access Health Funds

In family planning and outreach, Essential Access Health made repeated awards to Planned Parenthood affiliates for “the provision of family planning and outreach services to eligible individuals and families in the state of California,” including $978,638 to Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest and $828,117 to Planned Parenthood Northern California in 2023. In reproductive-health access, it supported Access Reproductive Justice with $1,450,000 in 2024 and $1,125,000 in 2025, both for program support. Clinical and hospital-based care also appears in the portfolio: the foundation gave $600,000 each in 2025 to County of LA DHS Harbor UCLA Medical Ctr Dept of Obgyn, County of LA DHS Olive View Medical Ctr Dept of Obgyn, and County of LA DHS LAC USC Medical Ctr Dept of Obgyn. Youth-focused service shows up as well through a $590,014 grant to University of California San Francisco Teen Clinic- Regents of UCLA.

How Essential Access Health Gives