Capital Funding for Rural Healthcare – Organizations

Appalachia Funders Network
Consists of over 59 member organizations dedicated to building community capacity, leveraging resources into the region, advancing food and agriculture systems, promoting clean energy and protecting natural resources, and supporting a culture of health.
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Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC)
Oversees the Health Center Program, a national network of health centers that provide comprehensive primary healthcare services, regardless of a patients' ability to pay, charging for services on a sliding fee scale. Part of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
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Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI)
The CDFI Fund's mission is to expand the capacity of financial institutions to provide credit, capital, financial services, and technical assistance to underserved populations and communities in the United States.
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Economic Development Administration (EDA)
Federal agency that supports industrial and commercial growth in economically distressed rural and urban areas of the United States. Part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Offers funding for regional economic development, including public works projects and job creation projects. Past projects have included funding for water and wastewater projects in hospitals and healthcare facilities, and road infrastructure projects that would support the expansion of healthcare facilities.
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Foundation Directory Online by Candid
Collects, organizes, and communicates information on U.S. philanthropy. Provides free and fee-based information and resources related to grant-seeking, fundraising, and foundation giving.
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Opportunity Finance Network (OFN)
A national network of Community Development Financial Institutions, which are mission-driven financial institutions that serve disinvested areas across the United States.
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Rural LISC
Works to equip rural areas with capital, strategy, and technical assistance to preserve and strengthen rural life. Partners with more than 140 rural community-based organizations, including six financial intermediaries. Supports partner organizations through capacity building grants, predevelopment grants, repayable investments, low cost lending capital, and equity investments.
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
Federal agency that provides financial, technical, and management assistance to help Americans start, run, and grow their small businesses.
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Small Business Investment Company (SBIC)
A program of the U.S. Small Business Administration that works to aid, counsel, assist, and protect the interests of small business concerns.
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Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC)
Supports access to broadband services needed to work, learn, heal, and communicate. Collects and delivers funding through four programs focused on places where broadband and connectivity needs are critical. These programs - High Cost, Lifeline, Rural Health Care, and the E-rate (schools and libraries) Program - serve people in rural, underserved, and difficult-to-reach areas.
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USDA Rural Development (USDA RD)
Helps improve the economy and quality of life in all of rural America through programs that support economic development and essential services such as housing, healthcare, first responder services and equipment, and water, electric and communications infrastructure.
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USDA Rural Housing Service
Federal agency that provides technical assistance, grants, loans, and loan guarantees to support housing and essential community facilities in rural communities.
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