Illinois Healthy Resilient Communities

The Illinois Department of Public Health is offering the Illinois Healthy Resilient Communities grant through funding opportunity IHRC-27, CSFA number 482-00-3662. This is a state-funded grant opportunity administered by IDPH through its Office of Performance Management. The opportunity is a modification of a previous announcement and is subject to appropriation by the Illinois General Assembly and enactment of the Illinois State Budget for Fiscal Year 2027. The agency contact is Lynette Clontz, who may be reached at Lynette.Clontz@illinois.gov or 217-785-9212. The purpose of the Illinois Healthy Resilient Communities grant is to support partnership development, partnership expansion, and place-based interventions that address social determinants of health in populations experiencing health disparities. Funded healthy resilient communities will use multi-sectoral collaboratives to plan or implement public health solutions that respond to high-priority health disproportions within a geographically defined community. Applicants must align proposed interventions with relevant priorities in the Illinois State Health Improvement Plan and/or the Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs of the local health department within the proposed healthy resilient community. Applicants may apply for either the Capacity Building component or the Implementation component, but may not apply for both. The Capacity Building component provides up to $75,000 and focuses on partnership development, needs assessment for focused populations, program planning for future implementation, and development of a logic model. The Implementation component provides up to $150,000 and focuses on continuation and expansion of existing partnerships, program implementation, and evaluation of the organization’s action plan to address health disparities. The total estimated program funding available is $500,000, and the award period is expected to run from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027. Eligible lead applicants include local health departments and other eligible lead organizations with the capacity to function as a fiscal agent. The NOFO identifies eligible organization types as Tax Exempt and Government Entity. If a local health department is not the lead organization, at least one local health department must be included among the partner organizations in the proposed collaborative. Partner organizations may be any entity type if their contribution is clearly defined in the application and listed in the ILHRC Partnership Engagement Form. Programming work should be focused outside Cook County and the City of Chicago. All applicants must complete Illinois GATA registration and prequalification before applying, including active UEI and SAM.gov status and applicable good-standing checks. Cost sharing or matching is not required. Indirect costs are allowed and are not restricted by the program; if the grantee elects the de minimis rate, the applicable rate is 15%. Grant funds must be used only for the purposes stated in the grant proposal, work plan, budget, and grant agreement, and all costs must be necessary, reasonable, allocable, and compliant with applicable state and federal rules. Prior approval is required for certain costs such as conference fees related to grant work, gift card incentives for participant engagement, subscription costs for grant staff, and promotional or media publications. Prohibited uses include commingling funds, promotional items, political or religious expenses, donations, fundraising, lobbying, bad debts, fines, contingency funds, memberships, entertainment, food, alcoholic beverages, land or building purchases or improvements, conflict-of-interest expenses, and audit expenses. Applications must be submitted through the Illinois Department of Public Health Electronic Grants Administration and Management System at idphgrants.com. The application must be completed in full and submitted by June 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM Central Time. Required application materials include the Uniform State Grant Application, Project Narrative, Budget, Budget Narrative, W-9, evidence of 501(c)(3) status when applicable, ILHRC Partnership Engagement Form, letters of support from all partner organizations, a logic model matching the work plan, and additional documents such as subgrantee budget detail forms or gift card forms when relevant. A technical assistance session is offered on May 14, 2026 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Central Time, but the NOFO indicates that the session is not mandatory and registration is not needed. Applications will be reviewed competitively by Department program staff and scored for completeness, accuracy, and alignment with published review criteria. Both Capacity Building and Implementation applications are scored on need, capacity, quality, SMARTIE work plan objectives, budget, and feasibility, for a total of 100 points. Highest-scoring applications will be recommended for funding, but funding is limited and not all applicants will receive awards. Successful applicants will receive an EGrAMS email notification and must complete electronic and physical signatures on the grant agreement. Unsuccessful applicants will receive a Notice of Denial through EGrAMS. The anticipated program start date is July 1, 2026, and the anticipated program end date is June 30, 2027.

Focus the proposal on a clearly defined health disparity and geographic community; align interventions with SHIP and/or IPLAN priorities; document rural or social vulnerability priority criteria if applicable; use SMARTIE objectives; clearly explain partner roles and upload all required support letters; ensure budget items are valid, justified, and tied to work plan activities; upload the logic model and all required miscellaneous documents.