The Donaghue Foundation

• The Foundation funds rigorous health research with near-term potential for adoption, so a small charity fits best if its work is research with a clear route to policy-makers, practitioners or the public, in a stated theme such as older adult health or healthcare equity.
• Its programmes support investigators at tax-exempt research institutions in the United States, and some need a health-care delivery or stakeholder organisation on the project team, so a charity that is not a research institution may fit as that stakeholder partner.
• Most of its grants fall between $57,000 and $220,000, with a median of about $110,000, so a request in that region is realistic.
• For letter-of-intent programmes, submit a letter of intent first, which is judged on the research idea alone, and only selected applicants are invited to a fuller application; in the latest filing, 48% of grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had also funded in the two earlier filings, so existing ties carry weight, but a newcomer can still apply with a tight, evidence-based letter.
• R3 is limited to current and past Donaghue grantees, so a new applicant should not approach that programme.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Hastings Center · Putting bioethics to work on ai, trust, and health care: from theory to impact through inclusive engagement
  $320,0002024 tax year
• Johns Hopkins University · Impact of a shared decision-making intervention for families of severe acute brain injury patients
  $225,2052024 tax year
• Woman's Hospital · Gvp-testing effectiveness of her health program to add healthcare value in fourth trimester
  $219,3952024 tax year
• University of Southern California · Personalized patient-centered eye care using telemedicine and artificial intelligence
  $217,7162024 tax year
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · Gvp-accountable care organizations in medicaid: reducing low-value care for working-age adults
  $216,9772024 tax year
• Ut Southwestern Medical Center · Informing medicare with evidence on social risk adjustment
  $215,8472024 tax year
• Wake Forest University School of Medicine · Gvp-aimepcco: american indian men's experiences with prostate cancer communication
  $205,7572024 tax year
• Virginia Commonwealth University · Ready to scale: demonstrating the value of cross-setting palliative care
  $199,8812024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.