Grants
We funded a robust roster of 21 new grants totaling $14 million to improve the care of older adults, including two COVID-19 urgent response grants authorized in May 2020. The Foundation made
$21 million in payments to existing grants in 2020 across our three priority areas: Age-Friendly Health Systems, Family Caregiving and Serious Illness & End of Life.
View Grants Awarded by Quarter
First Quarter 2020
Case Western Reserve University
Age-Friendly Health Systems: Ambulatory Care Continuum Implementation
$2,435,164
Trust for America’s Health
Expanding Age-Friendly Public Health Systems, Phase II
$2,349,358
National PACE Association
PACE 2.0 Growth Strategy Implementation
$500,000
Grantmakers in Aging
Core Support Renewal: Developing the Aging Lens in Philanthropy and Beyond
$309,503
Second Quarter 2020
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The Quality of Care in Nursing Homes in the 21st Century
$1,200,000
University of California, San Francisco
Implementation, Scaling and Impact of the 4Ms in an IT-enabled Health Care System
$1,010,967
Center for Health Policy Development / National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP)
Expanding and Sustaining the Continuum of Care: A Resource Hub for State Policymakers
$537,428
Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation / Health Affairs
Building Capacity for Future Impact Assessment
$520,190
Center for Health Care Strategies
Helping States Support Family Caregivers Caring for an Aging America, Phase II
$460,468
Twin Cities Public Television
Television Documentary – Fast-Forward – Outreach and Impact
$356,700
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
COVID-19 Rapid Response Network for Nursing Homes
$299,010
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Healthy Longevity Global Competition
$150,000
Third Quarter 2020
FrameWorks Institute
Skilled, Long Term Framing: Building Capacity to Communicate about Nursing Homes
$499,883
Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc.
General Operating Support
$200,000
Community Catalyst, Inc.
General Operating Support
$200,000
Justice in Aging
General Operating Support
$200,000
Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, Inc. (PHI)
General Operating Support
$200,000
Milken Institute, Center for the Future of Aging
Alliance to Improve Dementia Care
$100,000
Fourth Quarter 2020
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Scaling and Dissemination of Hospital at Home in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond
$1,578,559
Rush University Medical Center
A Model for Caregiver Health and Wellness in Age-Friendly Health Systems, Planning Grant
$537,691
American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), Emergency Medicine Foundation
Geriatrics Emergency Department Accreditation: Expansion Phase II
$514,046
All Active Grants
Funding Guidelines
The John A. Hartford Foundation makes grants by invitation only.
The Foundation normally makes grants to organizations in the United States which have tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (and are not private foundations within the meaning of section 107(c)(1) of the code) and to state colleges and universities. The Foundation does not make grants to individuals.