The Commonwealth Fund

EIN 131635260

Brooklyn, NY 11234 |(212) 606-3858

https://www.commonwealthfund.org
Total Given 2021–2025
$236.4M
3,866 grants · $47.3M avg/year
based on 5 yrs of IRS 990-PF records on file
$10M+/yr
major funder
capacity
$25K
typical mid grants · $4K–$74K
grant size
49%
supporter · 428/866 multi-year
repeat
$922.7M
Assets (2025)
866
Distinct Recipients

Focus Areas

Education Health Arts & Culture Environment Human Services

Application Information

Accepts Unsolicited Proposals Unknown
Contact Person Andrea Landes
Phone (212) 606-3858
Deadlines Letters of Inquiry are accepted throughout the year on a rolling basis. RFP applications, when avail
How to Apply 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.

Financial Trends

Giving Over Time

Total Assets Over Time

View financial data as table
YearTotal GivingTotal AssetsRevenueGrants
2021 $40.5M $998.0M $69.4M 664
2022 $47.8M $877.0M $66.4M 756
2023 $51.0M $864.8M $22.3M 805
2024 $48.3M $875.6M $40.7M 830
2025 $48.9M $922.7M $39.8M 811

Grant Size Distribution

Based on 3866 grants on record

Minimum
$1
25th Pctl
$4K
Median
$25K
Average
$61K
75th Pctl
$74K
Maximum
$2.3M

Geographic Distribution

Texas Counties Served

1.0% of US grants · Rank #13 of 42 states $1.2M across 39 grants 4 of 254 counties

Top 4 counties

  1. 1 Travis 20 grants · $648K
  2. 2 Dallas 14 grants · $511K
  3. 3 Harris 4 grants · $56K
  4. 4 Bexar 1 grant · $600

Officers & Directors

Grants Awarded (3,866 total)

Purpose
The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY $2,345,604 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice: Authorization for 2024-25 Class 2025
The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY $2,317,858 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice, 2023-24 2024
The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY $1,769,393 2022-23 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice 2023
The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY $1,502,804 2022-23 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice 2022
The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY $1,444,391 2021-22 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice 2022
The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY $1,400,000 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice: Authorization for 2024-25 Class 2023
The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY $1,336,849 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice, 2023-24 2022
The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY $1,330,661 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice, 2023-24 2023
The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY $1,261,924 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice: Authorization for 2024-25 Class 2024
The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY $1,248,477 2022-23 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice 2021
The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY $1,236,252 2021-22 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice 2021
The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY $1,148,279 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice: Authorization for 2025-26 Class 2024
Trustees of Boston University Boston, MA $1,100,000 A Data-Driven Approach to Ending Racial Inequity Through Health Policy Evaluation and Innovation 2021
The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY $956,328 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice: Authorization for 2025-26 Class 2025
The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY $874,820 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice, 2020-21 2021
President and Fellows of Harvard College Cambridge, MA $853,202 The Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University, 2024-25 2024
Ssrs Glen Mills, PA $850,000 International Health Policy Survey, 2023 2022
President and Fellows of Harvard College Cambridge, MA $850,000 The Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University, 2025-26 2025
Ssrs Glen Mills, PA $800,456 International Health Policy Survey, 2025 2025
Rush University Medical Center Chicago, IL $798,518 Testing, Scaling, and Disseminating the Racial Equity in Healthcare Progress Report, Phase 2 2024
Ssrs Glen Mills, PA $757,840 The Commonwealth Fund 2022 Biennial Health Insurance Survey 2022
President and Fellows of Harvard College Cambridge, MA $751,898 Winding Down the Maintenance-of-Eligibility Requirement for Medicaid: Impacts on Low-Income Adults in Four Southern States 2022
President and Fellows of Harvard College Cambridge, MA $739,653 The Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University, 2022-2023 2022
President and Fellows of Harvard College Cambridge, MA $720,000 The Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University 2021
Trustees of Boston University Boston, MA $700,000 A Data-Driven Approach to Ending Racial Inequity Through Health Policy Evaluation and Innovation 2022