Request For Proposals - Fall 2025

The Mental Health Funding Circle is a network of donors dedicated to supporting high-impact, cost-effective programs that improve mental health and wellbeing. Twice a year, MHFC grants a total of $500k to $800k to promising and effective charities focusing on mental health and wellbeing.

Apply for funding if:

• You are a registered non-profit or charity (or work with a fiscal sponsor).

• Your work focuses on mental health and wellbeing. This overlaps with non-life saving global health and development interventions that score particularly well on life satisfaction improvements.

• You measure outcomes and have a plausible theory of change.

• You have or work towards a cost-effective intervention. (i.e. <$50 per point-increase in life satisfaction, or another standardized axis strongly tied to quality of life)

Competitive applications will fit one or more of the following descriptions:

• Deliver a self-contained, discrete project with clear success criteria; or

• Scale up a proven model; or

• Implement something new based on compelling evidence; or

• Produce highly valuable helping others increase their impact; or

• Address a highly neglected issue

Deadline: September 15th, 2025 at 23:59 PTHow to apply: Visit mentalhealthfunders.com for full details and the application form.