San Diego Foundation Announces $875,000 in Grants for Family Nonprofits

The San Diego Foundation and the connected San Diego Women’s Foundation Monday announced $875,000 in grant awards to local nonprofits that provide mental and behavioral health services and support to children, youth and families.

“Thriving children and families are an important component of a healthy, resilient region,” said Pamela Gray Payton, SDF vice president and chief impact and partnerships officer. “Our collaborative grantmaking with the San Diego Women’s Foundation helps provide the much-needed culturally responsive and trauma-informed services that children and families need to flourish.”

The SDF awarded the grant money to: Alliant Educational Foundation, Casa de Amparo, Center for Community Solutions, Crisis House, Interfaith Community Services, Just in Time for Foster Youth, Logan Heights Community Development Corporation, Mending Matters, North County LGBTQ Resource Center, Open Heart Leaders, Promises2Kids, San Diego American Indian Health Center, San Diego Rescue Mission, San Diego Youth Services, transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project, Union of Pan Asian Communities, United Women of East Africa Support Team and Urban Restoration Counseling Center.

Those grants are through the SDF Healthy Children & Families Initiative, intended to support “expanded access to critical services for children, youth and families in our region,” a statement from the foundation read. Since launching the initiative in 2021, SDF has granted more than $1.1 million to local nonprofits.

Additionally, San Diego Women’s Foundation grantees — Mending Matters, Monarch School Project and Social Advocates for Youth (SAY) San Diego — will each receive $75,000 in unrestricted grant funding, “allowing them the flexibility to support their work to provide mental health interventions to middle- and/or junior high-aged youth, ages 12 to 14, for either one or two years.”

City News Service contributed to this article.