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Apply for a Grant
Interested in applying for a grant? Please review our current funding opportunities and eligibility requirements before completing the necessary steps.
Step 1: Explore Funding Opportunities
Learn about current funding opportunities, including eligibility requirements and application procedures.
Step 2: Create an Account with our Online Grant Portal
To review and submit a grant application, you must establish an account in our online grant portal. Click “create a new account” to get started.
Step 3: Submit a Letter of Intent / Application
Once your account is created, you must select and apply for the grant of your choosing within our online grant management portal. You may return to your online application as often as you like prior to submitting it. Once you have submitted your application online, it cannot be reopened.
Grant Application Review & Decisions
Eligibility before Application Review
General information about eligibility can be found in the FAQs. Detailed information about eligibility for a specific RFA can be found on those webpages.
Application Review
We review applications to ensure receipt of all required materials and that the submission meets eligibility requirements. Applications are then evaluated based on their alignment with the Foundation’s priorities, potential impact on health professions education, engagement with learners, scalability, quality, and focus on improving the clinical learning environment. For Board Grant RFAs, we frequently rely on both internal staff and external reviewers to evaluate applications.
Decisions: Board Grants
Following internal and external review, those applications recommended for funding are presented to the Foundation’s Board of Directors for evaluation and approval. Decisions are generally made at our regular Board meetings (mid-January, mid-May, mid-October).
Decisions: President’s Grants
Applications are reviewed by Foundation staff and awarded at the discretion of the President. Decisions are generally made within one to two months of application submission.
All decisions are communicated via email through our grant management portal.
Awards & Reporting
Approved applicants will work with the Foundation to finalize award details. Grantees are required to submit annual and/or final narrative and financial reports to the Foundation to share details on the progress and success of the project. All reporting will be done through the Foundation’s grant management portal.
FAQs
Grants are made only to tax-exempt institutions or agencies—no grants are made directly to individuals. We do not consider requests for general support, endowments, equipment, construction or renovation projects, capital campaigns, or activities conducted outside the United States and its territories.
We support projects that:
- Align with our priority areas.
- Directly engage learners.
- Demonstrate impact beyond local benefit.
- Conduct demonstration and evaluation projects (not formal research).
- Focus on the clinical learning environment.
- Utilize AI in innovative ways to meet our priority areas.
Grant applications are evaluated on these key dimensions:
- Relevance to Macy’s three priority areas.
- Significance and timeliness.
- Generalizability, scalability, and potential for spread.
- Sustainability after period of project support ends.
- Evidence of co-creation with learners (preferred).
- Focus on the clinical learning environment (preferred).
- Utilize AI in innovative ways (preferred).
- Must take place in the United States
We are interested in projects that focus on medical students, medical residents and fellows, undergraduate nursing students, and/or graduate nursing students, as well as learners in other health professions degree-granting programs.
We are specifically interested in projects that focus on the clinical learning environment.
We do not accept unsolicited Board Grant proposals. We will accept and review applications for active RFAs and President’s Grants.
Due to the small size of our staff, we cannot meet with potential applicants. If you have questions after reviewing our website, you may submit them to info@macyfoundation.org.
Given the small size of our staff and the volume of applications we receive, we simply do not have the capacity to provide individualized feedback to all applicants. As much as we would like to be able to do so, we could not sustain that level of response while maintaining our other grantmaking responsibilities.
Indirect costs are permitted up to 10% of the total budget, including subcontracts.
Grant Portal Access
Our grant management portal serves as the central hub for applicants and grantees throughout the entire grant application, award, and management process. Through the portal, you may submit applications, track the status of your application, and submit required grantee reports.
Reporting Guidelines
Please see below for the reporting guidelines that apply to your grant.