Recent Grants
The Jenkins Foundation conducts twice yearly grant cycles, awarded in March and September. The following list provides a snapshot of the projects that reinforce our strategic focus areas, and help to create a healthier Richmond region.
To best support our nonprofit partners as they respond to the needs of our community during the COVID-19 pandemic, the following organizations received grants for general operating support unless otherwise noted in the description.
Spring 2021
Access to Primary Health Care
- Access Now, Inc. – $50,000
- Assisting Families of Inmates – $25,000 to support the Health Encouragement & Assistance in Reentry for Thriving Youth (HEARTY) program with the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice.
- Better Housing Coalition – $50,000 to support the Senior Health & Wellness program.
- Conexus – $30,000 to support the VisioCheck program and Mobile Vision Clinic.
- Daily Planet Health Services – $75,000
- Family Lifeline – $50,000 to support Growing Well intensive early childhood home visitation services.
- Henrico Education Foundation, Inc. – $30,000 to support integrated health care for students from high-poverty schools in Henrico.
- La Casa de la Salud – $31,175 to support community health workers for the Diabetes Prevention and Management program for Latino residents.
- Medical College of Virginia Foundation – $50,000 to support the VCU Massey Cancer Center Mobile Health Clinic.
- Sacred Heart Center – $20,000 to support health care services and bilingual case management services for Latino residents.
- Urban Baby Beginnings – $50,000
- Virginia Dental Association Foundation – $25,000 to support access to dental care for vulnerable residents.
Access to Mental Health Care
- Challenge Discovery Projects – $30,000
- Chesterfield CASA – $20,000 to support volunteer-driven court advocacy for abused and neglected children.
- ChildSavers – $100,000 to support increased access to trauma-informed children’s mental health services through a school-based approach (First installment of a three-year, $300,000 grant).
- Greater Richmond SCAN – $50,000 to support trauma-informed mental health treatment services.
- Henrico CASA – $25,000 to support volunteer-driven court advocacy for abused and neglected children.
- HomeAgain – $40,000 to support mental health care and substance use disorder counseling resources for individuals participating in housing programs.
- Latinos in Virginia Empowerment Center – $50,000 to support culturally appropriate and linguistically specific mental health services.
- The Innerwork Center – $16,000 to support culturally responsive mindfulness training for Richmond Public Schools teachers.
- UMFS – $40,000
- YWCA of Richmond – $50,000
Fall 2021
Grants are awarded as general operating support unless otherwise noted.
Access to Primary Health Care
Access to Mental Health Care
- Christo Rey Richmond – To support a new mental health counseling program to help students build resiliency skills and cope with stress, fear, trauma and anxiety.
- Full Circle Grief Center - $25,000 to support professionally-led grief support groups
- Gateway Homes - $50,000 to support the community-based mental health clinic for adults and adolescents living with several mental illness
- Hanover Safe Place - $50,000
- Safe Harbor - $40,000 to provide counseling and case management for survivors of sexual and domestic violence and human trafficking.
- Safe Harbor - $40,000 to support the development of a new Human Trafficking Emergency Shelter
- Senior Connections - $30,000 to provide flexible respite care options for caregivers of older adults
- Virginia Supportive Housing - $50,000 to provide supportive services for clients with mental health conditions or substance use disorders.
Prevention & Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
- CARITAS - $90,000 to support the Healing Place for Men and the Healing Place for Women
- Elk Hill – $60,000 to support the Substance Abuse Prevention Program
- REAL LIFE - $40,000
- SAARA of Virginia - $20,000 to support young people in recovery