Funder: NIHCM Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Most awards: $15,000–$30,000; up to $460,000 total for the 2026–2027 cycle
Summary: Supports independent health reporting and journalism education projects that inform improvements in US health care affordability, accessibility, and quality.
Key Information: Proposals must focus on the United States, and projects should be published within one year of award.
Description
NIHCM Foundation’s Journalism Grants support independent, timely, and impactful health care reporting and education programs for journalists. The program seeks new insights relevant to policymakers, health plans, health care delivery systems, consumers, and related stakeholders, with the goal of improving the affordability, accessibility, and quality of health care in the United States. Applicants include newsroom journalists, freelancers, nonprofit organizations, and universities.
The program invites projects addressing health care costs and quality, consolidation, artificial intelligence, prescription drugs and technology, rural health, and maternal health. Reporting may investigate spending drivers, cost-control policies, ownership changes, access barriers, workforce dynamics, and patient outcomes. Journalism education projects are also supported. NIHCM reviews proposals outside its identified issue areas on a case-by-case basis.
