OUR Grantee Partners

The Jed Foundation (JED)
Dramatically expanding the number of college and high school campuses that receive JED’s support, including a focus on HBCU expansion. Work focused on building comprehensive systems and supports prioritize mental health and reduce suicide attempts, especially among at-risk populations. .

• Grant: $1,500,000 over 3 years
  
  
• Impact highlight: Study of their first decade finds JED reached 5.6M students on 444 college campuses. Schools that completed the program had a 25% reduction in suicide attempts, as well as reductions in anxiety and depression. Budget for the organization has grown 3X in the time TGW has supported them

Think:Kids & Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute

Scaling a proven model for helping young people build emotional regulation skills so that parents across Texas receive tools to support their child’s development as part of routine pediatric visits.

• Grant: $2,020,000 over 4 years

• Impact highlight: Training in Collaborative Problem-Solving model executed across 186 community-based organizations in Texas, reaching 1,000s of youth and their parents. Developed asynchronous version of training and launched in 28 sites. Attracting interest from other states for expansion.

Young Futures

Empowering young people to thrive in the digital age by advancing innovations that promote social connection, teen belonging, and well-being in a tech-driven world. The link between social media and mental health necessitates focusing prevention efforts in the online world.

• Grant: $1,000,000 over 2 challenges

• Impact highlight: Young Futures selected its first cohort of Innovators and is providing them the supports, including funding, that will allow their ventures to scale. TGW donors serve as mentors. They received over 200 applications for 10 spots. Each organization helps young people navigate the digital divide by nurturing their passions and building real connections.
  

Inseparable, Inc.

Driving policy change across a growing number of US states to ensure increased funding and increased access for tens of thousands of young people to evidence-based mental health supports.

• Grant: $800,000 over 2 years

• Impact highlight: In just one legislative session, Inseparable notched 27 policy wins across 16 states (both right and left leaning). A key result was hundreds of millions of new funding to mental health, especially for youth and in school settings. Inseparable has grown from a 5-state presence to an 18-state presence in the two years TGW has been funding them.

The Path Forward

Convening Employers, Providers, and Industry Experts to advocate for, and facilitate, meaningful changes in access to evidence-based mental healthcare.

• Grant: $1,800,000 over 3 years

• Impact highlight: Expanded coalition to include NAMI and National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Played an influential role in new federal regulations intended to help millions of Americans gain better access to mental health care through their existing health insurance.

Reach University

TGW's newest grantee partner. A nonprofit university advancing apprenticeship degrees in care industries to address the urgent shortages in the behavioral health workforce. The Reach Behavioral Health Pathway will create opportunities for those employed in health systems and community organizations to gain academic credit for work experience while pursuing a stackable series of degrees, starting with the Associate of Arts (A.A.) degree, and eventually leading to a B.A. and M.A. degree. This program will allow thousands of frontline workers to become behavioral health professionals, addressing the nation’s growing mental health crisis.

• Grant: $1,000,000 over 3 years

• Impact highlight: As a result of TGW's grant, projected to upskill 2,000 individuals in behavioral health over the next 5 years