Summer/Fall 2025 Funding Opportunity
Colorado Springs Health Foundation’s mission is to make grants to target immediate health care needs and encourage healthy living in El Paso and Teller Counties, Colorado. To this end, the Foundation is pleased to offer the Summer/Fall 2025 Funding Opportunity to eligible organizations serving El Paso and/or Teller Counties, Colorado.
CSHF will open the Summer/Fall 2025 Funding Opportunity in late April.
The Summer/Fall 2025 Funding Opportunity will accept requests related to:
- Food
- Physical activity
- Transitional or affordable housing. This includes home improvement, weatherization and energy efficiency efforts to maintain affordable housing as well as efforts to connect people in need with transitional or permanent affordable housing, e.g. case management, resource coordination, navigation, and support.
- NOTE: Emergency shelter and emergency rent/mortgage requests will not be considered
For more details on this funding opportunity, see our website, and scroll down to Grant Opportunities. The application deadline is Tuesday, July 22, noon Mountain Time and a pre-application phone call is required.
Upcoming Virtual Learning Sessions
CSHF’s Learning Sessions are free and open to the public. Please share with others who may be interested in the topics.
Register: Nonprofit Scenario Planning in an Age of Chaos: Friday, April 11, 2025, 8:30 – 10 a.m.
Register: It’s a New Day for Mergers (and Non-Merger Mergers): Friday, May 9, 2025, 8:30 – 10 a.m.
Winter/Spring 2025 Funding Cycle: A Summary
In late March, Colorado Springs Health Foundation awarded 50 grants totaling $4M (one of the grants was multi-year). These grants related to CSHF’s Access to Healthcare, Suicide Prevention and Preventing/Healing Trauma funding focus areas. The cycle was CSHF’s biggest ever!
Here are some data on the applications and grant awards:
- Total applications: 70
- Total number of grant awards: 50 (71% award rate)
- The grant size ranged from $5,000 to $300,000
- % of grants awarded by funding focus area:
- 59% Access to Healthcare;
- 34% Prevent/Heal Trauma;
- 7% Suicide Prevention
- % of grants awarded by grant type:
- 64% Program;
- 33% General Operating;
- 3% Capital
2024 Annual Report
CSHF’s 2024 annual report is available at the News page of the website. Our 2024 Audit is also available at the bottom of the About Us page of the website.
Resources available
- The Bridgespan Group will be hosting a webinar: “Funding Strategies in Uncertain Times: Practical Guidance for Nonprofits” on April 9, 2025.
- Nonprofit Finance Fund: NFF offers a huge number of free webinars and other resources related to managing your organization’s financial health. Some of the ones that caught our eye given current challenges and uncertainty are “Strategic Budgeting and Scenario Planning” and “Managing Risks and Opportunities” and “Financial Leadership for Boards.” Check out NFF’s LEARN pages for resources, especially their Fundamentals for Nonprofits resources.
- La Piana blogs and workbooks: Scenario Planning in the Age of Chaos; It’s a New Day for Mergers (and non-merger mergers); Nonprofit Merger Workbooks.
- And a reminder: If you are a Colorado Springs Health Foundation funded partner, CSHF offers capacity-building grants year-round (no deadline) to eligible organizations. If your organization is interested in doing a deeper exploration of financial scenario or contingency planning, mergers or dissolutions, succession planning and other sorts of governance or financial consultation, consider scheduling a pre-application phone call with us to discuss whether applying for capacity-building funds might be an option. Here are those funding opportunities: Capacity Building Opportunity and Mini-Capacity Building Opportunity AND here is the Calendly link to schedule a required pre-application phone call with CSHF staff.
- The Colorado Trust is accepting event sponsorship applications. You can read more about the funding opportunity here.
Community Review Program
Community Reviewers enhance our grantmaking process by incorporating diverse perspectives and insights that reflect the true needs and priorities of the community we serve. This Community Review process, adapted from a similar approach at Caring for Denver Foundation, asks local experts to review a subset of grant applications and provide staff and board with thoughts about application strengths, challenges, and key questions. If you want to participate as a community reviewer or learn more about the process, please reach out to Jamie Brown by emailing [email protected].
What We Are Reading About or Listening to Now
- Together by former Surgeon General of the United States, Vivek Murthy. In Together, the former Surgeon General addresses the importance of community and connection and offers viable and actionable solutions to this overlooked epidemic.
- The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row by Lawrence Wright in the Feb. 17, 2025 issue of The New Yorker. This article highlights the power and beauty of an unlikely relationship between women religious and some women on Texas’s death row.
- Most of us are addicted to our screens and social media. Ezra Klein’s podcast ‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’ explores the topic of social media and screen time’s effects on children and youth with Jonathan Haidt, PhD, author of The Anxious Generation.