2025 Impact Report
Expanding Access
We’re building on the knowledge, experience and talents of community organizations and partners to address social and economic factors that influence health in our communities.
invested through grants and sponsorships
organizations served by Blue Impact grants
people served by Blue Impact grants
based on most recent reporting cycle
Optimal Health Outcomes
As a health insurer, our clinical teams help members close gaps in preventive care and manage chronic conditions that have a big impact on health and well-being.
These efforts specifically target immunizations, diabetes care, cardiovascular care, early detection cancer screenings, behavioral health, and maternal and infant health.
Through the Blue Impact major grant program, we invested in many organizations finding innovative ways to close these gaps in their communities. More than $2 million in Blue Impact grants awarded in 2025 included $590,000 targeting these areas, such as renewed support for Texas Children’s Hospital providing maintenance, fuel and supplies for its mental health mobile clinic.
BCBSTX administers the Caring Foundation of Texas as an in-kind donation, which operates the Care Van® mobile health program. The Care Van program works with public health departments and others to bring no-cost preventive health services to communities across Texas. In 2025, the program participated in 927 events, reaching more than 58,000 Texans.
The Caring Foundation of Texas also operates the CareVan@School program, which makes immunizations available right where families enroll kids for school.
people served by Care Vans
immunizations and other health services provided
Care Van events
Locally Defined Health Solutions
The people and organizations on the ground in our communities are best able to meet the diverse health and human service needs of the people who live there. That’s why locally defined health solutions are a focus of our Blue Impact investments.
Our 2025 grants in this area include support for Concho Valley Community Action Agency’s monthly events connecting underserved West Texas communities with vital resources in a single location, such as enrolling in health coverage, ordering birth certificates, seeing a doctor and financial education.
Other Blue Impact grants are advancing important work of organizations across the state providing senior services, transportation to medical appointments, medication assistance, rural access to pediatric cancer care, and emergency shelter for domestic violence survivors and people experiencing homelessness.
Economic Opportunity and Stability
Many of our community investments are aimed at addressing poverty, barriers to employment job creation and skills development so our members and neighbors are better able to achieve their best health.
Through the Blue Impact program, we awarded grants totaling $180,000 specifically aimed at improving job skills and employment readiness. In Houston, for example, a grant is covering the costs for three students to complete BridgeYear’s career cohort track, which may include tuition, tools, books, uniforms and transportation.
Houston schools and employers work with BridgeYear to enroll students in affordable training programs and help them pursue careers as electricians, automotive and HVAC technicians and certified nursing assistants, among other areas.
Other Blue Impact grants are supporting economic opportunity and stability with resources such as supplies of clean clothes and hygiene products for children attending Coastal Bend schools and emergency financial assistance, education and coaching to help Dallas families avoid homelessness.
Neighborhood and Built Environment
The physical structure of our communities has profound effects on our health and well-being. We’re all better able to thrive with access to safe and affordable housing, transportation, and space for exercise and recreation.
We continued investing in housing access, development and repairs through Blue Impact grants totaling $225,000. One of these grants is helping Housing Connector provide a bridge between property managers with vacant housing and community organizations serving vulnerable populations in Dallas and Austin. People who are placed in housing can get up to three months of emergency rent support, and nearly 90% remain in the same unit for at least one year.
We also continued our collaboration with National Fitness Campaign to help bring outdoor Fitness Courts® to Texas communities. Fourteen new courts opened in 2025 are providing free access to exercise spaces and equipment, and more than 68,000 Texans can now walk to a Fitness Court in 10 minutes or less.
Fitness Courts built
people within 10-minute walk of a Fitness Court
Nutrition
With grants, community outreach, volunteer events and other avenues, we’re collaborating with community-based partners to reduce hunger and improve access to nutritional food.
Last year, BCBSTX employees volunteered more than 4,500 hours toward 186 organizations fighting hunger across the state.
Blue Impact grants awarded to 18 organizations, totaling $350,000, are expanding access to nutritious food in ways that meet the needs of local communities.
A renewed grant for Brazos Valley Food Bank is helping fund its school-based food pantries at 13 middle, intermediate and high schools. With support from BCBSTX, Brazos Valley Food Bank exceeded its goal in the 2024-25 school year and reached more than 7,700 individuals across three counties.
Other Blue Impact grants are advancing the work of food banks and pantries across the state. An investment in Houston-based Urban Harvest is helping the organization provide residents with education and tools that empower them to cultivate nutritious food in their communities.