Roots & Wings supports the remarkable work of hundreds of nonprofit organizations seeking to build healthier, stronger, and safer futures for children and families. Our approach to grantmaking is rooted in trust that our grantee partners’ connection to the communities they support gives them perspective and expertise that funders rarely achieve. We know the services our partners provide are integral to overcoming inequity and building a world where all families and children can reach their full potential. We also know those same organizations are consistently over-worked and under-resourced.
We think funders can, and must, work harder to reduce the burdens foundations have historically imposed on nonprofits. To help our partners stay focused on their mission, we strive to minimize distractions like complicated grant processes, lengthy applications, evaluation requirements, detailed grant reporting, and more. You can learn more about our trust-based principles on our approach page.
We invite you to explore the diverse mix of nonprofit organizations Roots & Wings is supporting by searching below. Our grants database is searchable by program or location. For more details about our grantmaking visit our Candid page. If you are inspired by the remarkable work our grantee partners are doing, consider supporting them directly.
Providing specialty medical care to uninsured, low-income patients referred by clinicians in south-central Wisconsin.
Delivering culturally appropriate, high quality medical care, and removes barriers to health, for an underserved patient population.
Helping people live healthier, happier, and longer lives.
Advancing quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.
Inspiring and preparing every child, every day, by providing relevant, engaging, and innovative learning experiences in and out of the classroom.
Providing food, clothing, child outreach, and other vital services to anyone in need.
We optimize the opportunity early childhood presents to build a strong foundation for life. We do this by cultivating a system of organizations and professionals across Wisconsin to promote quality, strengths-based, early childhood services in all communities.
promoting positive relations between rental housing consumers (tenants) and providers (landlords) throughout Wisconsinas as a primary means of increasing housing stability.
Healing, serving, educating.
Improving access to high-quality, patient-centered primary health care targeted to the needs of medically underserved communities.
Protecting mental health and prevent suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults.
Turning public health research into policy action that reduces all forms of gun violence and saves lives.
Providing compassionate, quality healthcare services to all those in need.
Providing education, physical and mental health services and substance abuse treatment that is culturally appropriate to American Indians, Alaska Natives and anyone in need.
Fostering a love of reading behind bars, encourage the pursuit of knowledge and self-empowerment, and to help break the cycle of recidivism.
Providing restorative healing and hope for young children and their families who have experienced trauma, helping them build a foundation for the mastery of life-sustaining skills.
Providing opportunities for homeless children and their families to achieve self-determined goals and affordable, stable housing.
Supporting families with young children to find and keep stable housing.
Preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and meeting human needs in His name without discrimination.
Advocating for effective and humane responses to crime that minimize imprisonment and criminalization of youth and adults by promoting racial, ethnic, economic, and gender justice.
Eradicating diaper need to improve the physical, mental and emotional health of the families we serve.
Providing an open door to exceptional health services and connections that support individuals and their families in healthy living.
Leading the innovation of safe and respectful patient care with a compassionate culture supported by our dedicated, professional health care team.
Strengthening families and promote “Comm-Unity” by providing information about the resources available to support positive lifestyles and to promote the health and well-being of families and children of all ages and providing activities that strengthen the parent child relationship and the community they live in.
Serving our community by providing patient-centered care in a fiscally responsible and learning focused environment.
Empowering the community to break the cycle of domestic violence, end sexual assault, and promote heathy family systems.
Uniting the community to achieve measurable results and change lives, United Way of Dane County is committed to building a Dane County where everyone can succeed in school, work and life.
Providing quality health care to the most vulnerable members of the Kansas City community, regardless of one’s ability to pay
Improving the health and well-being of patients and the community through excellent training for health care professionals, innovative research, and the delivery of state-of-the-art health care.
Providing the children of New Mexico with comprehensive, family-centered health care that is unequaled in the state and region.
Combining service in the community with structured preparation and reflection opportunities, and address concerns that are identified and articulated by the community.
Training professional, graduate, and undergraduate students from a diversity of disciplines in the art and science of patient advocacy and patient-centered care.
Serving Black birthing parents from prenatal to one-year postpartum to reduce disparities in infant mortality through screenings and referrals.
Providing premium assistance to lower-income individuals and families who make too much to qualify for BadgerCare to purchase health insurance (Silver healthcare.gov plans).
Defeating cancer through rapid application of groundbreaking research, prevention, and treatment.
Providing students with a significant learning experience in which they develop into skilled legal professionals and engaged public citizens.
Connecting children and parents in justice-involved families through literacy-rich experiences and environments.
Providing basic health care to underserved communities in Madison while enhancing the education of UW health professions students.
Providing opportunities for personal transformation and empowerment through prison education.
