The funder's latest Form 990-PF says it accepts applications. Read the instructions below before you write.
How to apply
Philanthropy and grantmaking
2,618 grants on file · $134.4M · FY2021–2025
IRS 990-PF · FY2025
Deadlines
Restrictions
Send applications to
Not publishedNew York, NY, 100212677The filing names a person as the application contact. We publish role-based contacts (a committee, an office, a shared inbox) but not named individuals.An email address and a phone number for applications is on the filing. On the filing, not published; see “How to reach them” for any published channel.
Application policy: Accepts applications, as stated on the FY2025 return.
What its returns show
Stated the same way on all 5 Form 990-PF returns on record (FY2021 to FY2025).
On its FY2025 Form 990-PF return this foundation listed grants to 315 named recipients.
These lines count this foundation's own Form 990-PF returns that the IRS has published as data. An amended return replaces its original. They describe past returns only.
This is a count from past returns. It does not say the foundation will consider a new request. How it is counted: names are compared as written on the returns, without "The" at the start, without endings such as "Inc" or "LLC", and without spaces and punctuation. A recipient also counts as already listed when our records link it to the same organization as an earlier recipient, or when its name is almost the same as an earlier name (a trigram similarity of 0.8 or more, where 1 means identical). The state on the grant row is not compared. Grants that the foundation marked as paid to an individual, such as a scholarship, are left out of both numbers, and no count is shown when most of its grants are marked that way. A person whom the foundation did not mark as an individual is still counted as a recipient. A recipient can still look new when its name is written very differently from year to year, and two different recipients with almost the same name can be counted as one. 1 grant row on this return names no recipient we can compare (for example "see attached", or a name shorter than four characters) and is not counted.
Application guidance comes from the funder's own Form 990-PF, Part XV (the section where a private foundation says how to apply), shown as filed. It is the funder's words, not ours. These fields are free text and the IRS form cuts them short. Filers sometimes put whole sentences in the contact-name box. Shown exactly as filed.
Financials
Giving
$50.8M
FY2025 · qualifying distributions
Total assets
$922.7M
FY2025 · end of year
Revenue
$39.8M
FY2025
Expenses
$52M
FY2025
Giving by year
Total assets by year
Year
Form
Revenue
Expenses
Giving
Assets
Net assets
FY2025
990-PF
$39,838,343
$51,961,087
$50,785,477
$922,680,894
Figures are as reported on the e-filed return, with no restatement. Fiscal years are the funder's own tax year, labelled by the calendar year the period ends in. A blank line means the return does not carry that figure; a real zero shows as $0. When an amended return replaces an original, every figure here uses the amended return. The original is not shown. Giving is what the funder actually paid out toward its charitable purpose in the year (qualifying distributions on Form 990-PF, charitable disbursements otherwise). Assets are what it holds; giving is what moves.
What they fund
Recipient focus areas
Education$26.5M · 355
Health care$12.7M · 205
Social science$7M · 70
Civil rights$2.1M · 67
Community improvement$2M · 58
Arts and culture$2M · 118
Where recipients are
DC$29.9M · 496
NY$26.5M · 777
MA$22.5M · 300
PA$10.7M · 91
CA$9M · 212
MD$6.2M · 97
NJ$3.1M · 66
VA$3.1M · 57
Based on the 58% of grant rows we could match to an organization record. The rest stay as reported. The IRS assigns the NTEE category when it grants exemption. It often reflects the original filing, not today's giving.
Winding Down the Maintenance-of-Eligibility Requirement for Medicaid: Impacts on Low-Income Adults in Four Southern States
$321,565
2025
Recipients are shown as the funder wrote them on the return. A recipient with a link was matched to an organization record; the rest stay as reported and are never guessed. Some links come from other funders' returns: when three or more of them wrote the same name and state with one EIN, and the city on this row matches, we use that EIN. The name on this row is still shown as this funder wrote it.
Officers and directors
Name
Title
Hours / week
Compensation
Kathleen Regan
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
60.00
$513,860
Melinda Abrams
Executive Vice President for Programs
60.00
$418,440
Mitchell J Blutt MD
Director
3.50
$0
Maureen Bisognano
Director
From the officer list on the latest e-filed return. Compensation is as reported there; a blank means the return carries no figure.
$883,480,950
FY2024
990-PF
$40,713,328
$48,850,563
$43,901,029
$875,566,732
$841,983,708
FY2023
990-PF
$22,299,026
$52,394,916
$47,000,796
$864,829,934
$831,413,869
FY2022
990-PF
$66,371,379
$50,431,768
$41,534,410
$877,035,892
$840,954,351
FY2021
990-PF
$69,444,117
$46,234,066
$37,258,650
$998,032,247
$963,672,976
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Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice, 2023-24
$320,459
2023
First Nation Development InstituteLongmont, CO
Native American Experiences with Health Care and Maternal Care Systems
$312,570
2025
The Commonwealth FundNew York, NY
Expanding and Revamping the International Profiles of Health Care Systems: Authorization for Support
Educating Policymakers and Providing Strategic Guidance on Artificial Intelligence in Health Care and Primary Payment Reform
$305,538
2025
The Commonwealth FundNew York, NY
Authorization to Support a Public Opinion Survey on Election-Year Health Issues
$305,000
2021
AcademyHealthMatched to this organization because 10 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2025. Counted Oct 9, 2026.Washington, DC
Planning Grant to Support the Design of the Commonwealth Fund's New International U.S. Leadership Program
The Inflation Reduction Act's Price Negotiation Program: Implications for Patient Access to and Affordability of Medications
$300,000
2025
The Commonwealth FundNew York, NY
Authorization for 2023 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Forum
$296,579
2024
SSRSGlen Mills, PA
International Health Policy Survey, 2024
$295,530
2024
The Brigham and Women's Hospital IncMatched to this organization because 48 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2025. Counted Oct 9, 2026.Boston, MA
Increasing the Efficiency of the U.S. Drug Market to Benefit Patients
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