The Assisi Foundation of Memphis is accepting 1st Quarter 2027 grant applications from qualifying nonprofit organizations in its Greater Memphis service area, which expressly includes DeSoto County, Mississippi. Health & Human Services is a core Foundation program area, including work that strengthens spiritual, mental and physical health through direct care, research, prevention and social-determinants initiatives.
Deadline: November 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM local time. The Foundation uses that exact wording and does not separately name a time zone on the controlling grantseeker page.
Funding: The current official grantseeker materials do not publish a fixed minimum or maximum award amount. The Foundation considers general grants, capital grants and, where appropriate, multi-year support. Any matching or challenge requirement is case-specific rather than a blanket requirement for general applications.
Eligibility: Applicants must be current 501(c)(3) organizations, be located in and provide services within the Foundation’s Greater Memphis funding area, and certify that services are welcoming to people of all faiths. For this Mississippi lane, the eligible geography is DeSoto County. The resource packet states that many organizations may apply in any quarter; special designated-quarter rules apply to Arts & Culture, Education, and Digital News. Health & Human Services does not have a designated-quarter restriction.
Submission: Applications are submitted through the Foundation’s online portal. The official resource packet identifies required materials including a signed Certification & Acceptance form, two years of complete IRS Form 990s, two years of audited financial statements or other financial statements, board and key-individual lists, a project budget, and an organization budget.
Technology requests: The Foundation’s packet allows technology requests but expects a technology assessment/infrastructure review, specific goals and objectives, implementation strategy, funding plan, warranties, replacement policy/plan, staff development, risk management and evaluation. The current guidelines exclude regularly needed medical equipment and patient-care costs, so any technology-centered healthcare proposal must be a defined programmatic or capacity-building request rather than routine equipment replacement or ordinary patient-care expense.
Atlas Opportunity Score: 84/100 for eligible DeSoto County 501(c)(3) health and human services organizations with a well-defined new program, capacity or technology initiative.
N9+ Fit: 52/100, conditional. Technology can be supported, but routine medical equipment and patient-care costs are excluded. Any N9+-related concept would need to be justified as a non-routine program or capacity component and confirmed permissible by the Foundation before budgeting. Dr. Miltie, LLC is not an eligible direct applicant under the nonprofit eligibility rule.
Official source: The Assisi Foundation of Memphis — For Grantseekers.