Grants for Free & Charitable Clinics
If you run a free or charitable health clinic, this page is your starting point. Bespoke Grants tracks 13,515 foundations that fund free & charitable clinics — together $184.07B in recent grants. Below are the most active funders. Every one links to a full giving profile, and Bespoke Grants will rank all 13,515 against your organization's specific mission and location, free.
Foundations that fund free & charitable clinics
Ranked by total recent giving. Click any funder for its full profile — giving history, grant recipients, focus areas, and how to apply.
| # | Foundation | Based in | Annual giving |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | $7.32B |
| 2 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Seattle, WA | $5.37B |
| 3 | Schwab Charitable Fund | San Francisco, CA | $3.30B |
| 4 | Novartis Patient Assistance Foundation | East Hanover, NJ | $3.26B |
| 5 | Genentech Patient Foundation | South San Francisco, CA | $2.87B |
| 6 | Silicon Valley Community Foundation | Mountain View, CA | $2.64B |
| 7 | Johnson & Johnson Patient Assistance | New Brunswick, NJ | $2.49B |
| 8 | National Philanthropic Trust | Jenkintown, PA | $2.29B |
| 9 | Gavi Alliance | — | $2.01B |
| 10 | Merck Patient Assistance Program Inc | Kenilworth, NJ | $1.58B |
| 11 | Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund | New York, NY | $1.57B |
| 12 | Direct Relief | Santa Barbara, CA | $1.46B |
| 13 | Pfizer Patient Assistance Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $1.39B |
| 14 | Rural India Supporting Trust | Farmington Hills, MI | $1.38B |
| 15 | Mayo Clinic Group Return | Rochester, MN | $1.31B |
| 16 | Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc | Alpharetta, GA | $1.30B |
| 17 | NYU Langone Hospitals | New York, NY | $1.19B |
| 18 | Novo Nordisk Fonden | — | $1.17B |
| 19 | Partners Healthcare System Inc & | Somerville, MA | $1.15B |
| 20 | Americares Foundation Inc | Stamford, CT | $1.02B |
| 21 | World Vision Inc | Federal Way, WA | $984.7M |
| 22 | American Online Giving Foundation Inc | Newark, DE | $979.0M |
| 23 | American Lebanese Syrian Associated | Memphis, TN | $974.7M |
| 24 | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $905.3M |
| 25 | Baptist Health South Florida Inc | Coral Gables, FL | $885.6M |
| 26 | President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $817.0M |
| 27 | Lilly Endowment Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $789.6M |
| 28 | The Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $773.3M |
| 29 | The Ford Foundation | New York, NY | $760.8M |
| 30 | Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $708.9M |
This list is ranked by size. Yours should be ranked by fit.
The funders above are the biggest — not necessarily the right ones for your free & charitable clinics. Bespoke Grants ranks all 13,515 against your actual mission, service area, and budget, and shows you why each matches. Free, no credit card.
Match my organization to funders →How free & charitable clinics should approach these funders
A long list of funders is only useful if you approach them well. Three things matter more than the size of your free & charitable clinics: fit, evidence, and the first contact. Fit means the funder's stated priorities, the population they serve, and the geography they fund genuinely overlap with your work — funders reject far more proposals for poor fit than for weak programs. Evidence means a specific, concrete description of the need you address and what your funding will change. And the first contact is rarely a full proposal: most private foundations prefer a brief letter of inquiry, and many fund only organizations they already know — so a warm introduction or a short, well-targeted note is the realistic way in.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I find grants for free & charitable clinics?
- Start with foundations that already fund free & charitable clinics — our index lists 13,515. Match them to your specific mission, location, and budget, then approach the best fits with a brief letter of inquiry rather than a cold full proposal.
- How many foundations fund free & charitable clinics?
- Bespoke Grants tracks 13,515 foundations that fund free & charitable clinics, representing $184.07B in recent grants.
- Do these foundations accept unsolicited applications?
- Some do; many do not. Each foundation's profile shows what is known about its application process. Where a funder does not accept unsolicited proposals, relationship-building is still the path in — it is rarely a dead end.