Texas Health seeks partners for $5 million health grants in McKinney

East McKinney’s 75069 ZIP code is one of the places Texas Health wants to reach as it looks for partners to direct up to $5 million in community health grants across nine counties. The health system is seeking proposals that can do more than patch holes after people get sick. It wants collaborations that take on the conditions driving poor health in places like McKinney, where rapid growth has stretched access to affordable food, preventive care, transportation and social support.

Texas Health Community Impact is accepting applications through May 29 for the 2027-2028 grant cycle. The grants are aimed at organizations working together, not single agencies applying alone. Texas Health requires each proposal to show a collaborative effort between two or more organizations, identify a lead organization to handle coordination, finances and reporting, and lay out an innovative approach that fits the system’s strategic priorities and can last beyond the life of the grant.

For Collin County, the biggest opening is in east McKinney. Texas Health’s 2025 community health needs assessment listed 75069 as a priority area in its Collin Region data tables, signaling unmet need in that part of the county. The assessment also pointed to food security, transportation, connectedness, preventive care access, chronic disease and behavioral health as major barriers to well-being. Texas Health said its recent findings show food, isolation and transportation remain key problems, with mental health and chronic disease worsening in multiple regions.

That makes the grant cycle especially relevant for schools, clinics, neighborhood groups, faith-based groups, nonprofits and city partners that already work at street level and know where the gaps are widest. Texas Health said it wants local partners with strong community ties and home-grown strategies, not one-size-fits-all projects imported from somewhere else. The goal is to fund efforts that strengthen the local health ecosystem, including projects that could improve food access, early-childhood support, grassroots organizing and preventive care.

The grantmaking effort is part of a larger Texas Health strategy that has been building since 2019. In January 2026, the system said it had awarded more than $23 million in Community Impact grants since then. A separate Texas Health report said the program had awarded $18.2 million across 49 grant programs and projects that reached nearly 90,000 people, plus nine additional grants that served 41 school districts and 65 organizations. Texas Health’s broader community health work, under Community Health Improvement, is tied to the Affordable Care Act framework for community health needs assessments and relies on public data, internal risk screening tools, interviews, focus groups and a community organization survey to identify where the need is most urgent.