2024 Mental Health Grants
Grants Paid during 2024
Including Grants Approved in Prior Years
Alongside Network $10,000
Minneapolis, MN
One-time grant to support the refinement and expansion of their Alongside Wellbeing model which provides mental health support to families who have a child who has experienced a traumatic pediatric medical intervention (e.g. life-threatening illness, injury, or painful medical procedure).
(Final payment of a $65,000 grant)
Comedy4Kids! $20,000
Fiscal Agent: Southampton Cultural Center
Southampton, NY 11969
One-time grant to support Comedy4Kids!, a project exploring and developing the use of comedy to enhance the social and emotional learning of young people. Funds will be used to refine the model; replicate a refined model in 2-3 different states; identify partners for nationally rolling out their model and, in partnerships, develop a system to bring the program to schools and community centers.
(Final payment of a $75,000 grant)
Evermore $35,000
Washington, DC
One-time grant to strengthen the organizational capacity of Evermore, America’s first national charity
for all bereaved people, by formalizing infrastructure building operational capacity, and expanding
the board governance and leadership, transforming it from a start-up to a well-established organization.
(First payment of a $70,000 grant)
Icarus Archive Project $35,000
Los Angeles, CA 90066
(Fiscal sponsor: Fractured Atlas)
One-time grant to preserve and digitize The Icarus Project’s historical materials, making them available
to the public in an accessible online format, and develop new educational resources from the archive,
create informal community engagement opportunities and secure partnerships with mental health organizations serving marginalized youth to ensure the archive remains a living resource.
(First payment of a $55,000 grant)
OkaySo $25,000
Ojai, CA
One-time grant to sttrengthen their Mental Health Training program, Bridge Builders, that provides
mental health training to the adults most commonly interacting with youth (advisors, coaches, mentors,
etc. by partnering with youth-serving organizations).
(First payment of a $55,000 grant)
Wildflower Alliance $35,000
Holyoke, MA
One-time grant to replicate beyond Massachusetts their innovative and lived-experience
informed, Family & Individual Support Project, also known as Families Partnering Together.
(First payment of a $55,000 grant)