Large Impact Grant Application Deadline 7/31/2024
The Lewis-Clark Valley Healthcare Foundation is now open for large Impact Grant requests from $25,000 to $100,000. The deadline to apply for a large Impact Grant is July 31st, 2024. The Impact Grant application is located on the Foundation’s website: https://lewisclarkhealth.org/impact-large-grants/.
The Lewis-Clark Valley Healthcare Foundation funds grants to promote the health, wellness, or disease prevention of persons within a three-state, nine-county area: Clearwater, Idaho, Latah, Lewis and Nez Perce in Idaho; Asotin, Garfield and Whitman in Washington; and Wallowa in Oregon.
Priority is given to applicants that demonstrate a commitment to long-term vision and projects that address the root causes that affect health, improve wellness, and help prevent disease. Grant applications can be for capital expenditures or operating expenses as well as for existing or new programs that are within the nine-county area.
Starting in August, the Board of Community Advisors to the Foundation will review the Impact Grant applications and make grant award recommendations to the Trustee. The Trustee will notify the organizations that are selected for funding prior to November 15.
The Foundation does not provide funding for: endowments, scholarships, fundraising events, to cover operation deficits or the retirement of debt; ongoing expenses beyond a single grant award, per grant cycle, or the redistribution of the Foundation’s funds through sub-grants. Multi-year grants also are excluded from eligibility.
The Lewis-Clark Valley Healthcare Foundation was established in 2017 by Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden as part of the sale of St. Joseph Regional Medical Center by Ascension Health to RCCH Healthcare Partners. Those eligible to apply for grants are nonprofit tax-exempt organizations with 501(c)(3) classification from the IRS, and governmental entities or government or public organizations described in I.R.C. § 170(c)(1) (political subdivisions of a state or federal government) or I.R.C. § 511(a)(2)(B) (state colleges and universities), even if it is not described in I.R.C. § 501(c)(3), provided that any grant to such governmental or public organization must be made exclusively for charitable purposes as described in I.R.C. § 170(c)(2)(B), subject to any additional limitations under 26 C.F.R. § 53.4945-5(a)(4), or corresponding provisions of any subsequent Federal tax laws. All proposals must be for health, wellness, or disease prevention to qualify.
Idaho Trust Bank administers the Foundation as its Trustee.
For more information on the Foundation or the grant process, visit the Foundation’s website or contact Idaho Trust Bank at 208-664-6448