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National Grantmaking Foundations

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the nation's leading philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care. Grant-making is focused in four areas:

• to assure that all Americans have access to basic health care at reasonable cost;
• to improve care and support for people with chronic health conditions;
• to promote healthy communities and lifestyles; and
• to reduce the personal, social and economic harm caused by substance abuse - tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs.

This website contains information about obtaining grants, lists of national programs, many RWJF publications, and much more.

The Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. The Fund is dedicated to helping people become more informed about their health care and to improving care for vulnerable populations such as children, elderly people, low-income families, minority Americans, and the uninsured. The Fund's two national program areas are improving health insurance coverage and access to care and improving the quality of health care services.

Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Annie E. Casey Foundation works to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. The Foundation provides grants to public and nonprofit organizations to strengthen the support services, social networks, physical infrastructure, employment, self-determination, and economic vitality of distressed communities.

Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation funds a variety of national and international projects in the areas of Asset-building and Community Development and Human Development and Reproductive Health.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The goal of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is to improve the health of people in communities through increased access to integrated, comprehensive health care systems that are organized around public health, prevention, and primary health care, and that are staffed by appropriately prepared personnel. The Foundation adopts five strategies to: inform policy makers of needed changes in policy and practice; encourage developing models of comprehensive health care based on reorienting services toward public health, primary care and prevention; expand the health work force so that it is more reflective of the racial, ethnic, cultural and geographic makeup of the populations served; increase access, especially for vulnerable populations; and build the capacity of communities to form active partnerships with institutions.

Abbott Laboratories Fund
The Abbott Laboratories Fund (The Fund) is an Illinois not-for-profit, philanthropic corporation established by Abbott Laboratories. The Fund is designed to provide support through cash grants to United States-based recipients who operate in the areas of health and welfare, education, culture, art, civic and public policy.

Community Toolbox for Children's Environmental Health
The Toolbox provides small grants in conjunction with capacity building training and technical assistance to parent and other community-based groups to protect children from preventable environmental health threats in those areas of the United States that are most disproportionately impacted. Site includes information about grant-making program.