CHILDREN’S HEALTH FOUNDATION AWARDS $202,804,85 TO 15 AREA NONPROFITS
Children’s Health Foundation (formerly known as Rest Haven Children’s Health Fund), a nonprofit foundation supporting health-related services for underserved children in San Diego and Imperial Counties, recently awarded grants totaling $202,804.85 to fifteen area nonprofit organizations through its 2025 Special Grants annual funding cycle.
Children’s Health Foundation established the Special Grants competitive annual grant process in 2008. Total annual awards average $200,000, with over $3,403,700 distributed since the grant’s inception. Eighty-five different San Diego and Imperial County nonprofit organizations that share Children’s Health Foundation’s mission and vision have received funding since 2008.
Each year, the Children’s Health Foundation Board of Directors invites local nonprofits to submit applications requesting funding for identified children’s health-related needs. The one-time grants must increase the organization’s capacity to provide health-related services to meet children’s physical, developmental, or mental health needs in San Diego County or Imperial County. This year, in light of changes across the grantmaking landscape, Children’s Health Foundation streamlined the application process as well as broadened the types of programs that could be supported in order to provide financial assistance where it was needed most.
The 2025 Special Grant recipients are as follows:
- Autism Society San Diego
- Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos
- Boys & Girls Club of Vista
- Burn Institute
- Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego
- Chicano Federation of San Diego County, Inc.
- Grossmont Hospital Foundation
- Home Start, Inc.
- Imperial Valley Food Bank
- MANA de San Diego
- Neighborhood House Association
- Oncology And Kids
- San Diego Center for Children
- The Children’s Initiative
- The Elizabeth Hospice
Children’s Health Foundation’s mission is to advance the health and well-being of children in San Diego and Imperial Counties by filling gaps in funding to ensure no child goes without essential care, supporting innovative programs, and empowering communities to build a healthier, brighter future for every child. Through this year’s grants, our funds will impact the lives of 22,865 children by funding mentorship programs, supporting mental and behavioral health services, providing supplies to food banks, replacing aging food service equipment, and helping fund unique support camps for survivors of burn trauma as well as for siblings of pediatric cancer patients.
In addition to annual Special Grants, Children’s Health Foundation provides emergency funding assistance for children throughout the year through its emergency referral grants program. Any service provider working with a child who identifies a health-related need that is unmet due to lack of funding can visit the website at resthavenchf.org to learn more.
Children’s Health Foundation has supported the health needs of San Diego County’s underserved children since its founding in 1909 as Rest Haven Preventorium for Children and later expanded its support to include Imperial County.
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