CARESTAR Foundation

• If your work advances racial equity in emergency or prehospital care in California, or builds EMS research, policy, workforce diversity or multi-sector collaboratives there, the foundation's stated focus fits; its geographic focus is California, so organisations working elsewhere should check before applying.
• Most of its grants are modest: half of its grants to organisations were $75,000 or less, so a request around that level is realistic, though its largest grant was $750,000 and the band of $5,000 to $250,000 that about 8 in 10 grants fall within is typical rather than a ceiling.
• Specific awards are approached by emailing a brief 200 to 300-word summary of your organisation or project, and reviewers weigh the strength and diversity of the collaborative, the relationships and diversity of the lead agency, and the potential for systems change, with a rural, frontier or tribal area also a review criterion.
• Repeat grantees receive most of its grant money, as 77% of grant dollars to organisations in its latest filing went to groups it had also funded in one of the two earlier filings, so building relationships with its partners first may help, though new applicants should still make contact.
• Individual initiatives such as the Transformations & Innovations Grants Program have their own application processes, so confirm the right route for your project before writing.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Public Health Advocates · Seizing the moment: a statewide campaign to transform first response in california cities
  $750,0002024 tax year
• Lundquistharbor Ucla · The south la cpr initiative
  $333,3332024 tax year
• Lundquistharbor Ucla · The south la cpr initiative
  $333,3332024 tax year
• Loma Linda University · Emergency management strategies to decrease opioid deaths
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Nuestra Comunidad · Project lifeline: 911 awareness and equity
  $250,0002024 tax year
• National Indian Justice Center · Cultivating climate ready tribal community health representatives
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Sutter Coast Hospital · Community crisis response collaborative (ccrc)
  $233,3332024 tax year
• California Emergency Medical Services Authority · Access & equity project
  $200,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.