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Foundation for Healthy St. Petersburg Announces 2025 Capacity Funded Partners
St. Petersburg, Fla. – The Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg and Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital announced their 20 new 2025 capacity-building funded partners today, to whom they are jointly awarding grants of $10,000 each for a total of $200,000. All grant recipients are nonprofits working to advance health outcomes in the three zip codes of the South St. Petersburg Community Redevelopment Area (33705, 33711, 33712).
As part of the grant award, the 20 organizations selected for funding will participate in a Core Capacity Assessment Tool* (CCAT®) session administered by the Nonprofit Leadership Center (NLC). The assessment will evaluate information provided by board members, staff, volunteers, and individuals served by the organization and then generate custom recommendations for building organizational capacity in leadership, adaptability, management, technical capacity and/or organizational culture. Capacity assessment results will be used to inform how organizations will use their funding award. In addition to participation in the CCAT® process and funding opportunity, the funded partners will engage in a peer-to-peer learning cohort where they will explore common challenges and opportunities. This cohort model enhances learning, networking, and problem-solving.
“Opportunities to learn and grow are fundamental requirements of a healthy life that allows for the sharing of a person’s full potential with their community. The same holds true for the organizations that serve the community. By offering these capacity-building grants, we hope to strengthen our local not-for-profit sector in ways that allow them to increase their impact and expand their scopes in keeping with the ever-evolving needs of St. Pete,” said Foundation President and CEO Dr. Kanika Tomalin. “The 20 organizations we’re funding are doing incredible work – and we’re so excited to help accelerate and amplify it.”
The grant application for this funding cycle opened on February 26, 2025, and closed on March 31, 2025. More than 50 organizations applied for a capacity-building grant.
Representatives from the Foundation and Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital are also currently reviewing letters of interest for the Healthy People grant opportunity, which will award up to four grants of $250,000 each (for a total of $1 million) to multi-sector collaborations working to advance racially equitable health outcomes through systems change.
*CCAT is a registered tool ® of the TCC Group, administered by Nonprofit Leadership Center.
About the Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg
The Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg is a private foundation formed in 2013 following the sale of the nonprofit Bayfront Health St. Petersburg. As the steward of an endowment to support health equity in Pinellas County, the Foundation leads, funds, advocates, and partners to create a community in which all people can lead healthy lives. The Foundation advances racially equitable health outcomes by improving the systems and conditions that shape them. It opened its Center for Health Equity in 2019. To learn more, visit https://healthystpete.foundation/
About Orlando Health
Orlando Health is a private not-for-profit, integrated academic healthcare system with $12 billion of assets under management, that serves the southeastern United States – including Florida and Alabama – and Puerto Rico. With corporate offices in Orlando, Florida the system provides a complete continuum of care across a network of medical centers and institutes, community and specialty hospitals, physician practices, urgent care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, home healthcare, and long-term and behavioral health care services. Founded more than 100 years ago, Orlando Health’s mission is to improve the health and the quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve. The system provided nearly $1.7 billion in community impact in the form of community benefit programs and services, Medicare shortfalls, bad debt, community-building activities and capital investments in FY 23, the most recent period for which the information is available. For more information, visit orlandohealth.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter.)
