Our Grants
Our active grantees are listed below, updated monthly. We hope you will engage with and support these inspiring organizations.
Past Year of Giving
$300+M
Active Grants
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Annual giving numbers updated as of 12/31/24. New grants made in 2025 are added each month and shown below. Please note that we cannot accept unsolicited grant applications.
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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.
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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.
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Arab American and Chaldean Council
Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services
With 11 locations and over 120 programs serving metro Detroit, ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services) provides a broad array of social, economic, health, and educational services to a diverse community. Our grant enhances ACCESS’s data capacity to assess the effectiveness of its family support programs.
Behavioral Health Catalyst
The Behavioral Health Catalyst is a collaboration of funders focused on improving the behavioral health system in Washington state. Our grant provides strategic and organizational support to the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Work Group, which provides recommendations to the Washington legislature to improve behavioral health services and strategies for children, youth, young adults, and their families.
Behavioral Health Catalyst
The Behavioral Health Catalyst is a collaboration of funders focused on improving the behavioral health system in WA state. Our funds support general operating expenses, staffing for the collaborative, and compensation for the time and talent of local leaders, national advocates, and people with lived experience to inform the development of potential funding opportunities presented to the group.
Children’s Institute, Inc.
Children’s Institute (CII) is a partner in healing and growth for children and families in Los Angeles communities affected by underinvestment and racist policies that have led to trauma and diminished opportunities. CII offers high-quality early education and youth programs, counseling services, parenting supports, workforce and community leadership development, and advocacy for community investment where it is needed most.
Harborview Medical Center
The Harborview Behavioral Health Institute (BHI) is a program of Harborview Medical Center that is dedicated to advancing innovation, research, and clinical practice in community behavioral health. Our grant supports the BHI, in partnership with Health Management Associates, facilitating the state-wide crisis redesign process.
Harborview Medical Center
Our grant supports University of Washington’s Behavioral Health Institute at Harborview Medical Center to collaborate with community partners to create apprenticeship programs in behavioral health to help build a qualified, diverse workforce to meet the demand for care in the region.
Macomb Community Action
Macomb Community Action aims to diminish poverty and promote independence for the most vulnerable residents of Macomb County, Michigan through collaboration and policy change. Our grant supports the organization to scale and build on existing programs, including their mobile food pantry, mental health services for children and families, workforce programs in partnership with MichiganWorks, and health and human service programs across the County.
Mindful Philanthropy
Mindful Philanthropy works to catalyze impactful funding in mental health, addiction, and wellbeing. It engages funders in learning journeys, provides strategic guidance, and convenes funders around cutting-edge investments in well-being.
National Alliance of Trauma Recovery Centers
The National Alliance of Trauma Recovery Centers supports the successful replication of the proven Trauma Recovery Center (TRC) model that increases access to trauma-informed care for people impacted by violence and systemic inequities. Our grant supports TRC growth – from 39 TRCs in eight states to 66 TRCs in 14 states over three years.
Oakland Family Services
Oakland Family Services aims to provide individuals and families the opportunity to build brighter futures in Michigan. It offers prevention, education, and treatment services including adoption, foster care, parenting and child development programs, free preschool for at-risk youth, and counseling services for those of all ages dealing with depression, anxiety, substance use issues, and severe emotional disturbance in youth.
Public Health Seattle & King County
King County school-based health centers serve students with primary care, well-child exams, and mental health counseling. Our grant expands culturally responsive mental health care for young people across King County.
The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times is committed to providing principled, quality, public-service journalism — and continuing to innovate to ensure the future of the local free press. Our grant supports the organization’s Mental Health Project, which is focused on covering mental and behavioral health; spotlighting promising treatments and research; and examining related actions by government agencies.
The Young Mens Christian Association Of Greater Seattle
The YMCA of Greater Seattle operates wellness programs and provides a range of services from prevention to intervention, with an emphasis on serving youths and families. Our grant supports both the YMCA’s Vision 2025 to advance equity and justice for all through Whole Person Health and the vital work of the Y Social Impact Center, which offers youth counseling, housing, education, and case management services.
University of Oregon Foundation
The University of Oregon Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health establishes a new national model for the promotion of children’s and adolescents’ behavioral health and well-being by uniting the UO’s top-ranked teaching, research, and outreach programs, Oregon public schools and families, and community support groups in the creation and delivery of behavioral health promotion, prevention, and intervention programs that can be part of the daily lives of K-12 students.
University of Washington – Center for Child & Family Well-Being
The Center for Child & Family Well-Being at the University of Washington transforms innovative research in child and family well-being into practical solutions to ensure all children, youth, and families are resilient and thriving. Our grant assists in advancing a task-sharing model for implementing prevention programs that promote well-being in underserved communities.
University of Washington School of Social Work
University of Washington School of Social Work promotes social and economic justice for poor and oppressed populations and enhances the quality of life for all through education, research, and public service. Our grant supports a broad, collaborative response to Washington’s behavioral health crisis by expanding the diversity and numbers of well prepared, debt relieved students graduating from master’s programs in social work and mental health counseling who go on to work in community based behavioral health programs.
UW Medicine
UW Medicine is a health system serving the people of the Puget Sound region in Washington state, and is connected with UW School of Medicine and Research Centers and Institutes. Our grant expands Washington state’s behavioral workforce over five years through an innovative training program for Behavioral Health Support Specialists for undergraduate students in colleges around the state in partnership with the UW Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Washington Council for Behavioral Health
Washington Council for Behavioral Health provides education, training, technical assistance, and advocacy for its 40+ member agencies that deliver behavioral health services in every region in WA State. Our grant supports the Council’s work to prepare behavioral health providers for an upcoming change in service delivery and reimbursement, which will better ensure access to coordinated and comprehensive behavioral healthcare for everyone, regardless of ability to pay, residence, age, or diagnosis.
Youth Eastside Services
YES (Youth Eastside Services) is a lifeline for kids and families in East King County, Washington, who are coping with challenges such as emotional distress, substance abuse, and violence. Through intervention, outreach, and prevention, YES builds confidence and personal responsibility, strengthens family relationships, and advocates for a safer community that cares for its youth.