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Humana Foundation 2025 Grant Cycle Opens Jan. 21

Grant Cycle

BACKGROUND: The Humana Foundation works to ensure seniors, veterans and school-aged children live connected, healthy lives by removing unnecessary barriers to health and healthcare. The Humana Foundation offers funding through  its annual grant cycle and encourages organizations aligned with the Humana Foundation’s commitments to apply for grants through the online granting portal. In 2024, the Humana Foundation invested more than $15 million in a series of grants in service of the Foundation’s health equity mission. The investments spanned the Foundation’s focus geographies – Kentucky, Florida, Louisiana and Texas – and provided support to seniors, veterans, and school-aged children in living connected, healthy lives.

THE NEWS: The Humana Foundation will open this year’s grant cycle on Jan. 21, 2025. This opportunity marks a continuation of the Foundation’s commitment to fostering greater health equity and healthier communities. The grant cycle will remain open through Feb. 21, 2025, at 3 p.m. EST.

WHY IT MATTERS:

  • Food insecurity affects every community across the nation but disproportionately impacts low-income individuals and people of color. In fact, more than 34 million people, including 9 million children experience food insecurity in the U.S.
  • Healthy emotional connections and access to mental health services are vital to improving the health and well-being of underserved and diverse populations who have higher rates of poor mental health and suicide. In 2019-2020, more than one in five adults in the U.S., or over 50 million Americans, experienced a mental illness, with over half not receiving treatment.

WHAT’S NEXT: Organizations can submit proposals through the Humana Foundation’s granting portal from Jan. 21 – Feb. 21 (The cycle closes at 3 p.m. EST on Feb. 21).

Organizations can also access the following resources in preparation for submissions:

For additional information, visit humanafoundation.org or email the Humana Foundation at humanafoundation@humana.com.