Open Foundations · New York

Commonwealth Fund

New York, New York · EIN 131635260. Its Form 990-PF says giving is not restricted to organizations picked in advance, which is how a private foundation files that it accepts unsolicited requests. It paid $31.1M across 526 grants in 2024, a median of $15K each.

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$31.1M
paid in 2024
526
grants paid
$15K
median grant
9%
to first-time recipients
$922.7M
assets on file

How to apply, as filed

Straight off Part XV of the return. Where the foundation left a line blank, this says so rather than guessing.

Send requests to
Andrea Landes
Address
One East 75th Street, New York, NY, 100212677
Phone
2126063800
Form the request should take
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.
Submission deadline
Letters of Inquiry are accepted throughout the year on a rolling basis. RFP applications, when avail
Restrictions on awards
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 filed on the Form 990-PF for tax year 2024, IRS filing object id 202503159349101985. Printed word for word, including the entries that only say to see a website or an attachment.

What it funds, in its own words

The words that come up most often across the purposes it wrote on its 2024 grants. These are the foundation's own words, not a category we assigned.

matching giftshealth carepolicyequitymedicaidstatemedicare

Biggest grants in 2024

The 15 largest of the 526 grants paid in 2024, with the purpose the foundation wrote for each.

#RecipientStateAmountPurpose as filed
1The Commonwealth FundNY$2,345,604Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice: Authorization for 2024-25 Class
2President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeMA$850,000The Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University, 2025-26
3SsrsPA$800,456International Health Policy Survey, 2025
4Georgetown UniversityDC$639,482Analysis of Policies Affecting Health Insurance Access, Affordability, Adequacy, and Equity in the Individual and Small-Group Markets, Year 14
5Rush University Medical CenterIL$638,814Testing, Scaling, and Disseminating the Racial Equity in Healthcare Progress Report, Phase 2
6SsrsPA$560,0002025 Health Care Affordability Research, Adults 19 to 64
7SsrsPA$514,781The Commonwealth Fund 2024 Biennial Health Insurance Survey
8SsrsPA$490,115International Health Policy Survey, 2024
9Urban InstituteDC$440,000Modeling Policies That Could Expand and Improve Health Coverage and Affordability - or Roll Back Progress
10Urban InstituteDC$430,800Analyzing Emerging Health Reform Proposals
11Johns Hopkins UniversityMD$395,858Evaluating Proposed Medicare Policy Changes for Their Impact on Solvency, Spending, and Beneficiaries
12Bailit Health Purchasing LlcMA$384,000Technical Assistance for Design and Implementation of State Strategies to Increase Affordability in Commercial Markets, Phase 2
13The Commonwealth FundNY$336,742Harkness Fellowships Centennial Celebration: Authorization for Support
14President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeMA$321,565Winding Down the Maintenance-of-Eligibility Requirement for Medicaid: Impacts on Low-Income Adults in Four Southern States
15First Nation Development InstituteCO$312,570Native American Experiences with Health Care and Maternal Care Systems

Giving by year, and who received it

Grants paid by year

Every year of this foundation's grants that Civly holds
Tax yearGrantsPaid
2020453$22.1M
2021514$25.7M
2022527$28.4M
2023539$26.0M
2024526$31.1M

Where the money went

Share of 2024 grant dollars by recipient state
New York27%
District of Columbia22%
Massachusetts12%
California9%
Pennsylvania3%

Who decides

Officers, directors and trustees as filed, with the year of the return they appeared on.

No officers or trustees are listed on the filing we hold.

Every figure on this page is that foundation's own latest filed year, which is 2022 or later. This foundation is listed because its Form 990-PF says it does not restrict giving to preselected organizations and it paid at least 5 grants totaling $100K or more that year. Latest-year grants and terms per foundation from IRS 990-PF e-file returns; the newest tax year is partial until the IRS finishes releasing it. Grants are de-duplicated on funder, year, recipient and amount, so identical repeat grants collapse into one and totals can run low. Full method.

Source: IRS Form 990-PF e-file releases (public domain). Analysis: Civly.

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