WITH Foundation was created to provide financial support to organizations that promote comprehensive healthcare for adults with developmental disabilities. All grant applications should complement this mission and demonstrate how they will accomplish this overarching goal.
All applicants must have tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status as a nonprofit organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service. Proposals must describe an explicit, identifiable need.
WITH Foundation is a national grantmaker. While applications from the San Francisco Bay Area may be given preferential consideration, applications from other areas in the United States are NOT excluded. WITH does not provide funding to organizations and programs based outside of the United States.
WITH Foundation has three grant cycles per year, two open grant cycles when any organizations that meets our grant guidelines may apply and one Request For Proposals (RFP) cycle. To learn more about our grant cycles, please visit the “How Do I Apply” page.
During our traditional grant cycles (OPEN and RFP cycles) WITH will consider grants of up to $150,000. We will give preference to organizations that share our core values and work to support comprehensive healthcare for adults with I/DD. During our traditional grant cycles we will also consider research-focused grants. Research-focused grants can be up to $250,000, recognizing the pivotal role research plays in propelling positive change in the realm of disability healthcare. Grants from WITH typically provide one year of support but may cover as much as three years to support programming that warrants extended funding. After initial approval, all multi-year grants are subject to annual review before funds for subsequent years are released.
Areas of Support:
All projects/programs must complement the mission of WITH Foundation.
Programs that improve delivery of healthcare to adult consumers with developmental disabilities and include at least one of the following:
- Improve health practitioner competency through education and/or training programs
- Address the current inadequate reimbursement system
- Advance innovations in formal care coordination
- Enhance advocacy regarding the inadequacies of developmentally disabled care in order to advance systemic change
- Increase understanding of supported decision-making in healthcare settings
- National efforts in digital health that support designers and developers to include the perspectives/experiences of the IDD community within the design process, in order to create better technology for all
- Social policy research
- Identify and overcome barriers to high-quality healthcare access
- General operating support is only considered for grantees that have previously utilized our project funding
Areas of Exclusion:
Although WITH understands that many factors impact healthcare service delivery for adults with developmental disabilities, the following areas are excluded from consideration for funding:
- Specific therapies that are provided outside of a formal healthcare setting, i.e. physical fitness and/or nutritional programs (“healthy lifestyle programs”);
- Targeted therapeutic interventions including, but not limited to, occupational, physical, and speech therapies, and equestrian therapy;
- Projects that do not address healthcare delivery;
- Programs that are solely focused on direct support professionals;
- Funding for political campaigns, candidates, or legislation;
- Individuals and/or equipment for individuals;
- Funding for transportation vehicles;
- Organizations or programs that are based and/or provide services to populations outside the United States;
- Endowments and organizational debt reduction;
- Capital campaigns and building-related requests;
- Direct medical service and filling funding gaps between service costs and insurance reimbursement;
- Any request from an affiliate or chapter organization that does not formally partner with their national office or parent organization; and
- Administrative/Indirect expenses exceeding 28% of the total funding request.