The Commonwealth Fund

Giving by year

How to apply

Contact

Andrea Landes · New York · 2126063800 · grants@cmwf.org

What to send

The mission of the Commonwealth Fund is to promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, and people of color. The Fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and policy. In its more than 100 years, the Fund has worked by: * Demonstrating pioneering approaches and evaluating their results * Convening experts across backgrounds and disciplines * Publishing the results of our research and disseminating evidence Applicants are requested to provide a letter of inquiry through the online application portal on the Fund's website.

Deadlines

Letters of Inquiry are accepted throughout the year on a rolling basis. RFP applications, when avail

Limits

To be eligible for a grant, organizations should be considered tax-exempt, with 501(c)(3) tax status. The Fund may award grants to non-charities, when funds are earmarked for charitable purposes. The Fund exercises expenditure responsibility for grants to non-charities and generally does not accept unsolicited requests from non-charities. The Commonwealth Fund does not support: * Endowment or capital costs, including construction, renovation, or equipment * Basic biomedical research * Conferences, symposia, major media projects, or documentaries, unless they are a product of one of the Fund's programs * Individuals or scholarships, outside of the Fund's existing fellowship programs * Churches or other religious organizations unless the project for which they are seeking funding is entirely secular in nature.

As the foundation reported to the IRS for tax year 2024. Check its website or call before sending anything, because contacts and deadlines change.

Board and officers

• Kathleen ReganExecutive vice president and chief operating officer
• Melinda AbramsExecutive vice president for programs
• Mitchell J Blutt MdDirector
• Maureen BisognanoDirector
• Carrie L Byington MdDirector
• Margaret Hamburg MdChair
• Kathryn D HaslangerDirector
• Alan JonesDirector
• Vivian S Lee Md MbaDirector
• Lois QuamDirector
• Julian Harris MdDirector
• Simon StevensDirector
• Laura WalkerDirector
• Sheila P BurkeVice chair
• Joseph Betancourt MdPresident
• Jaewon Ryu MdDirector

As listed in its 2024 IRS filing. Many foundations decide through their board, so a personal connection often matters more than a perfect application.

What it funds most often

• Matching gifts for general operating support
• Insights on the distribution and use of opioid abatement funds in tennessee
• Experiences of covid-19 in tennessee and kentucky
• The inflation reduction act's price negotiation program: implications for patient access to and...

Tennessee organizations it funded

Largest first. Groups it already funds are good people to ask what the foundation looks for. Select a group to see who else funds it.