About John A Hartford Foundation
The John A. Hartford Foundation focuses on improving care for older adults by funding system-level quality improvement initiatives. Their recent giving is concentrated and strategic, supporting national implementation efforts to make care for the elderly safer and more reliable across care settings.
Focus Areas
Implementing safe, reliable care practices for older adults across the continuum (hospital, post-acute, community)Geriatric-focused quality improvement and patient safety initiativesCapacity-building for national healthcare improvement organizations to scale elder care interventions
Who They Fund
older adults (including frail and seriously ill elders)family and informal caregivershealthcare providers and health system organizations (hospitals, nursing homes, public health)people living with dementia and Alzheimer’s diseaserural communities and underserved populations
About John A Hartford Foundation
The John a Hartford Foundation Inc. consistently backs system-level changes in care for older adults, with large grants aimed at spreading safer and more reliable practice across hospitals, nursing homes, community settings, and health systems. Its recent awards show a strong emphasis on implementation: the Institute for Healthcare Improvement received $2,145,256 in 2024 and $1,816,517 in 2023 for Safe Passage, a multi-year effort to implement safe and reliable care for the elderly across the continuum of care. Other major commitments reinforce that pattern, including $1,427,424 to Health Careers Futures in 2025 for revisiting teaching nursing homes, phase II, disseminating across Pennsylvania, and $1,126,770 to LeadingAge Inc. in 2025 for the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition, phase II. The foundation also supports projects that connect care quality with older-adult priorities such as cost information, family caregiving, dementia care, and age-friendly public health systems. Its portfolio includes academic centers, national intermediaries, and health-system organizations, indicating a preference for grants that can be replicated or spread beyond one site. Across the recent grants list, the work is organized around improving care delivery for frail, seriously ill, and aging populations through training, coordination, and scale-up.
What John A Hartford Foundation Funds
In age-friendly health systems work, the foundation funded Trust for America’s Health with $1,059,782 in 2025 for phase III to embed and sustain age-friendly public health systems, policies, and practices. It also gave $897,165 to Health Research and Educational Trust in 2025 for spreading the age-friendly health systems social movement, and $917,066 to the Regents of the University of California San Francisco for launching and empowering a national age-friendly health systems research community. For dementia and Alzheimer’s care, it awarded $724,886 to Regents University of California Los Angeles for the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program, focused on creating a sustainable health systems model for national dissemination. In shared decision-making, Fair Health received $951,298 for a national initiative to advance cost information in shared decision-making for older adults with serious health conditions. The foundation also funded the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for hospital-at-home work tied to health equity and family caregiving.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$22.7M
Total Assets
$776.3M
Total Revenue
$85.3M
Total Expenses
$34.9M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $20K and $417K, with a median of $95K.
25th Percentile
$20K
Median
$95K
75th Percentile
$417K
Geographic Reach
National28 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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