Recent Grants

The California Endowment aims to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians.

Types of funding include:

• Direct Charitable Activities: DCAs are those activities that are consistent with the Endowment's mission, but are conducted by the Endowment (or its DCA are those activities that are consistent with the Endowment's mission, but are conducted by the Endowment ( or its contractors) and whose primary and significant purpose is to achieve the Endowment's charitable purpose, though the activities may be produce an incidental, shared or mutual benefit to a third party.
• Matching Gifts: The Endowment matches individual contributions of $25 or more by donating three dollars for every one dollar contributed by participants to eligible charitable organizations.
• Program Related Investments (PRI): PRI activity is structured to complement and support the Endowment's programmatic priorities and advance current 2020 goals. Current priority issue areas include:
  • Increasing access to quality health care and improving the capacity of community-based primary care health delivery and prevention
  • Addressing the lack of opportunity and health and wellness of youth
  • Improving neighborhood conditions in distressed and unstable communities.