About Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado
Providing high-quality, affordable health care and services and improving the health of our members and the communities we serve.
Focus Areas
Health careCommunity healthPatient careHealth equityCompliance and ethics
Who They Fund
K-12 students, teachers and school staffpeople experiencing homelessness / unhoused individualsMedicaid enrollees and uninsured patientslow-income and underserved metro Denver communitiesBlack women entrepreneurs and small business ownersyouth (including youth-led mental health initiatives)patients with chronic conditions needing nutrition support (e.g., hypertensive patients)
About Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado
A $3.7 million grant to the National Council For Mental Wellbeing for the National Mental Health Workforce Acceleration Coll signals how Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado uses its grantmaking: it backs workforce capacity at scale, alongside health access and community-based care. The foundation’s recent grants also show repeated support for research collaborations, with awards to Denver Health And Hospital Authority, Johns Hopkins Univ, Henry Ford Health System, and the University Of Pennsylvania. That mix points to a funder that uses large institutional partnerships as well as local program grants to move health system and community health goals. Its portfolio includes medically tailored meals, housing-linked care, school-based resilience, Medicaid outreach, and support for health careers. Grants to Project Angel Heart and Corporation For Supportive Housing show attention to nutrition support and Housing-to-Health models, while awards to Colorado Education Initiative and Boulder Valley School District Re-2 connect school staff, students, and whole-child health. The foundation also funds access work for Medicaid enrollees and uninsured patients through Colorado Safety Net Collaborative and Clinica Tepeyac, and it supports economic opportunity through Foundation For Black Entrepreneurship. Across these grants, the common thread is health improvement through service delivery, prevention, and capacity building.
What Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado Funds
Mental health workforce development appears as a major theme. The foundation gave $3.7 million to the National Council For Mental Wellbeing for the National Mental Health Workforce Acceleration Coll, and $475,000 to Metropolitan State University Of Denver for MSU Denver collaboration on mental health workforc. School-based resilience is another clear area. It awarded $400,000 to Colorado Education Initiative for Thriving Schools Rise capacity building, implement, and $298,500 to Boulder Valley School District Re-2 for expanding Rise to support teachers, staff and pare. It also gave $200,000 to Playworks for Rise (Resilience In School Environments) with Play. Food and housing supports also show up in the grant list. Project Angel Heart received $574,000 for medically tailored meals expansion, while Corporation For Supportive Housing received $500,000 for Denver SIPPRA - Housing to Health (H2H) pay for su. Recoveryworks was awarded $300,000 for a medical respite initiative.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$8M
Total Assets
$2.6B
Total Revenue
$4.5B
Total Expenses
$4.5B
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $111K, with a median of $48K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$48K
75th Percentile
$111K
Geographic Reach
Regional15 states funded
About 2% of grants go to recipients in CO.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
Mike Ramseier
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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