About Community Catalyst
Community Catalyst advances health justice by helping communities shape the health systems that affect their lives and economic security. Our mission is to build durable power with local, state, and community partners so they have real authority to shape health policy and the systems that affect health and economic security.
Focus Areas
AffordabilityCoverage ExpansionCOVID-19Health AccessHealth EquityHealth Care Quality & ExperienceMedicaid & MedicareOutreach & Enrollment
Who They Fund
general/unspecified population
Funding Style
general health support (non-specific)direct service fundingadvocacy and policy support
About Community Catalyst
Community Catalyst Inc. uses large, repeated health-advocacy grants to support state-based organizations that work on health issues. Its recent awards show a clear pattern of backing groups that organize around health policy and access, including Florida Voices for Health Inc in Boynton Beach, Florida, and Georgians for a Healthy Future in Atlanta, Georgia. The foundation also backs statewide advocacy centers such as the North Carolina Justice Center in Raleigh and Tennessee Justice Center Inc in Nashville, suggesting an emphasis on organizations that can influence health systems and policy at the state level. The grant record points to a funder that operates at meaningful scale, with awards often in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and multiple recipients receiving support in more than one year. Recent grantees span legal advocacy, community organizing, and health access work, alongside groups such as Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute in Atlanta and New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund in Newark. Community Catalyst Inc. also runs the Restuccia Health Justice Fellowship, described as a program for emerging health justice leaders, which adds a leadership-development component to its grantmaking. Across the portfolio, the throughline is health justice: helping communities shape health systems, policy, and access. The foundation’s grantmaking favors organizations already positioned to work on health-related systems change rather than small, isolated projects.
What Community Catalyst Funds
Community Catalyst Inc. supports health policy and access work through grants to advocacy and legal-justice organizations. In health access, it gave $558,823 to Tennessee Justice Center Inc in Nashville for support health issues, and $425,000 to South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center in Columbia for the same purpose. These awards align with the foundation’s focus on communities shaping the health systems that affect their lives. The foundation also funds statewide organizing around coverage and affordability. It awarded $712,500 to Texas Organizing Project Education Fund in San Antonio and $500,000 to Alabama Arise in Montgomery, both labeled support health issues. Community-based health advocacy is another visible thread: Community Care Network of Kansas Inc in Topeka received $425,000, while Healthy Wyoming in Cheyenne received $325,000. The portfolio includes groups working at the intersection of health and civic power, such as Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute in Atlanta and Montana Women Vote in Missoula, each funded for support health issues.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$12.1M
Total Assets
$48.4M
Total Revenue
$19M
Total Expenses
$37.1M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $50K and $149K, with a median of $73K.
25th Percentile
$50K
Median
$73K
75th Percentile
$149K
Geographic Reach
National46 states funded
About 3% of grants go to recipients in CO.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
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