The Commonwealth Fund
New York, NY
$2.3MTax year 2024
Grant purpose
Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice: Authorization for 2024-25 Class
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The Commonwealth Fund Grants
Private foundation · EIN 13-1635260 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2024
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- Contact
- Andrea Landes
- Phone
- (212) 606-3800
- grants@cmwf.org
- Deadlines
- Letters of Inquiry are accepted throughout the year on a rolling basis. RFP applications, when avail
- Application materials
- 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.
- Restrictions
- 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.
Original filing text
- Contact
- Andrea Landes
- Address
- One East 75th Street New York, NY, 100212677
- Phone
- 2126063800
- grants@cmwf.org
- Deadlines
- Letters of Inquiry are accepted throughout the year on a rolling basis. RFP applications, when avail
- Application materials
- 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.
- Restrictions
- 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.
Reported organization name: The Commonwealth Fund
Where The Commonwealth Fund gives
States of grant recipients reported on the foundation's 990-PF filings, by dollars received.
Largest reported grants
Historical awards reported to the IRS. These are examples of past giving, not open opportunities.
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Grant purpose
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Grant purpose
International Health Policy Survey, 2025
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Washington, DC
$639.5KTax year 2024
Grant purpose
Analysis of Policies Affecting Health Insurance Access, Affordability, Adequacy, and Equity in the Individual and Small-Group Markets, Year 14
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL
$638.8KTax year 2024
Grant purpose
Testing, Scaling, and Disseminating the Racial Equity in Healthcare Progress Report, Phase 2
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Figures are aggregated from The Commonwealth Fund's IRS Form 990-PF electronic filings (1 filing on file, most recent tax year 2024). Totals reflect grants the foundation reported as paid, and can lag the current year because foundations file annually and often on extension. Source: IRS 990-PF filing on ProPublica. Raw e-file archive (ZIP) — a large IRS yearly archive download.
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