Grant Awards

Since JRF was founded in 2013, we have awarded over $32 million in grants to 160+ community organizations.

New Grants Awarded: Fiscal Year 2025-2026

Updated December 2025

Strengthening Food Security

412 Food Rescue

$50,000

Increase access to healthy food and promote sustainability in the Jefferson area by recovering food and delivering it to nonprofit community partners.

Healthy Habits Initiative: Food as Medicine

Allegheny Health Network/Jefferson Hospital

$100,000

Improve the health outcomes of food-insecure patients from West Mifflin, Homestead, and Clairton at Jefferson Hospital by increasing access to nutritious food, providing education and support, facilitating connections to community resources, and leveraging services from AHN’s Center for Inclusion Health through the Healthy Food Center at Jefferson Hospital and AHN’s Institute for Strategic Social and Workforce Programs for community health screenings.

Mental Health Education and Therapy in Spanish

Ayúdate

$20,000

Provide therapy in Spanish alongside community outreach and education events that address the pervasive stigma and cultural barriers surrounding mental health care in Hispanic communities.

Championing Social/Emotional Youth Development and Empowering Families

Beverly’s PGH

$50,000/year totaling $100,000

Provide support and opportunity to Jefferson women and parents/caregivers experiencing financial hardship during pregnancy and through the early years of a child’s life by offering tangible supplies such as food, clothing, and equipment and offering linkages to other community partners via referrals. Supplies are offered through birthday parties, community baby showers, a mobile truck, and the Greater Pittsburgh Infant Formula Bank.

Building Civic Engagement Power for Black Women

Black Women’s Policy Center, Inc.

$100,000/year totaling $200,000

Improve the health and wellness of Black women living in McKeesport, Duquesne, Clairton, West Mifflin, and Homestead and share their lived experience by offering support and coaching through system navigation, connection to resources, advocacy on shaping public policy, and training and education.

Rapid Response Funding to Support Jefferson Families

Footbridge for Families, Inc

$140,000

Assist 66-75 Jefferson residents/families during times of short-term financial crisis and provide connections to additional supports through an innovative technology platform that facilitates rapid financial response to vendors.

Providing Access to Healthy Food and Financial Wellness

Life Builders

$55,000

Assist families with access to healthy food, offer financial wellness classes to individuals/families in South Park and surrounding communities, and build organizational capacity.

Youth and Family Support

Melting Pot Ministries

$150,000/year totaling $300,000

Support positive development for youth and their caregivers in South Park, Whitehall, and Bethel Park by providing out-of-school time programming (afterschool and summer) focused on educational, social-emotional, and cultural life challenges.

Health and Well-Being for Older Adults

Prime Time Adult Care

$40,000

Increase access to services for older adults with less income at an adult day service facility in Bethel Park. The grant will help build organizational capacity in human resources and community engagement and strategic marketing.

Civic Engagement, Storytelling, and Journalism

Pittsburgh’s Public Source

$40,000/year totaling $80,000

Increase Jefferson organizations and residents understanding of civic engagement by providing resources and six educational workshops on community engagement/storytelling taught by experienced journalists and draw attention to the Jefferson area by highlighting 16 stories which may include first-person essays. Through the work of Public Source, community voice is being elevated which increases community health.

Cultivating Youth Well-Being through Theater

Saltworks Theatre Company

$15,000

Increase awareness and knowledge about the truths and consequences of unhealthy decisions related to prescription drugs, e-cigarettes, and the overuse of social media for hundreds of Jefferson area middle and high school students and teachers through live theater productions.

Out-of-School Time Youth Programming

The Dragon’s Den

$120,000/year totaling $240,000

Build self-confidence, trust, and sociability of Jefferson school-age youth and develop deeper community engagement in Homestead by offering after-school programs and summer camps using the challenge course and zip line in the historic St. Mary Magdalene church.

Capacity Building /Business & Community Development

Unity Group of Clairton

$20,000

Provide capacity building support to a community-led nonprofit that coalesces partnerships between elected officials, churches, community leaders and nonprofits in Clairton to increase health and well-being of residents.

Access to Diaper and Hygiene Supplies

Western Pennsylvania Diaper Bank

$80,000

Improve the health and well-being of Jefferson families by expanding access to free diapers and other essentials through Jefferson partner organizations.

STEM and Wellness for Youth Development

Will Allen Foundation

$50,000

Increase youth interest and potential future economic mobility in Science, Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) careers by delivering a free afterschool and summer program in partnership with Clairton City School District to engage a minimum of 70 students in high-impact learning experiences.

Respite, Health, and Well-Being for Black Womxn

Young Women’s Christian Association Greater Pittsburgh

$25,000/year totaling $50,000

Strengthen the economic and social well-being of two single Black women with children residing in the Jefferson footprint. This trust-based financial and wellness support program is part of a data informed poverty intervention.