Our Grants

Behavioral Health grants strengthen the systems within behavioral health care, providing scholarships and training to build the workforce necessary to meet increasing need, and integrating behavioral health into the education system so that more children, families, and communities can access high-quality mental health care.

Ballmer Group’s first grants centered on the child welfare system – a network of services whose purpose is to ensure child safety and to strengthen permanency in families. These grants continue to support affected families and kids and to transform systems in order to improve prevention and to reduce racial disparities in care.

Our Community Impact grants strengthen local Place-Based Partnerships, including building leadership pipelines, to help communities working to address complex issues and achieve measurable results.

Early Childhood & Families grants build systems of support and care for our littlest ones in the most critical point of their brain development by promoting equity in prenatal and maternal health, as well as helping all families access high quality childcare and early education.

K-12 Education grants seek to reduce and eliminate inequities that shortchange student achievement, by strengthening both the in-school academic experience as well as wrap-around and afterschool support. We believe that all neighborhoods deserve strong schools and a more representative, racially diverse workforce of teachers and school leaders.

Public Safety grants support leaders and organizations working to advocate for and scale effective public safety initiatives.

Our National Impact grants focus on opportunities to strengthen impact across the country, and partners with regional teams to advance key issues.

In the Ballmers’ home state of Washington, our grants focus on public systems transformation, with deep investments in child welfare, behavioral health, and education as levers for change.

In the home of the Clippers, the Los Angeles County grants support building more equitable public systems, focusing on education, criminal justice, and a community-led vision of safety.

The Southeast Michigan grants works across the tri-county area surrounding Steve Ballmer’s hometown, bringing philanthropy, government, and business together to tackle economic mobility, and focusing on education and community development.