Grants for Hospice & Palliative Care Organizations
If you run a hospice or palliative care organization, this page is your starting point. Bespoke Grants tracks 13,469 foundations that fund hospice & palliative care organizations — together $183.10B in recent grants. Below are the most active funders. Every one links to a full giving profile, and Bespoke Grants will rank all 13,469 against your organization's specific mission and location, free.
Foundations that fund hospice & palliative care organizations
Ranked by total recent giving. Click any funder for its full profile — giving history, grant recipients, focus areas, and how to apply.
| # | Foundation | Based in | Annual giving |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | $7.32B |
| 2 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Seattle, WA | $5.37B |
| 3 | Schwab Charitable Fund | San Francisco, CA | $3.30B |
| 4 | Novartis Patient Assistance Foundation | East Hanover, NJ | $3.26B |
| 5 | Genentech Patient Foundation | South San Francisco, CA | $2.87B |
| 6 | Silicon Valley Community Foundation | Mountain View, CA | $2.64B |
| 7 | Johnson & Johnson Patient Assistance | New Brunswick, NJ | $2.49B |
| 8 | National Philanthropic Trust | Jenkintown, PA | $2.29B |
| 9 | Gavi Alliance | — | $2.01B |
| 10 | Merck Patient Assistance Program Inc | Kenilworth, NJ | $1.58B |
| 11 | Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund | New York, NY | $1.57B |
| 12 | Direct Relief | Santa Barbara, CA | $1.46B |
| 13 | Pfizer Patient Assistance Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $1.39B |
| 14 | Rural India Supporting Trust | Farmington Hills, MI | $1.38B |
| 15 | Mayo Clinic Group Return | Rochester, MN | $1.31B |
| 16 | Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc | Alpharetta, GA | $1.30B |
| 17 | NYU Langone Hospitals | New York, NY | $1.19B |
| 18 | Novo Nordisk Fonden | — | $1.17B |
| 19 | Partners Healthcare System Inc & | Somerville, MA | $1.15B |
| 20 | Americares Foundation Inc | Stamford, CT | $1.02B |
| 21 | World Vision Inc | Federal Way, WA | $984.7M |
| 22 | American Online Giving Foundation Inc | Newark, DE | $979.0M |
| 23 | American Lebanese Syrian Associated | Memphis, TN | $974.7M |
| 24 | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $905.3M |
| 25 | Baptist Health South Florida Inc | Coral Gables, FL | $885.6M |
| 26 | President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $817.0M |
| 27 | Lilly Endowment Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $789.6M |
| 28 | The Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $773.3M |
| 29 | New York University | New York, NY | $770.5M |
| 30 | The Ford Foundation | New York, NY | $760.8M |
This list is ranked by size. Yours should be ranked by fit.
The funders above are the biggest — not necessarily the right ones for your hospice & palliative care organizations. Bespoke Grants ranks all 13,469 against your actual mission, service area, and budget, and shows you why each matches. Free, no credit card.
Match my organization to funders →How hospice & palliative care organizations should approach these funders
A long list of funders is only useful if you approach them well. Three things matter more than the size of your hospice & palliative care organizations: fit, evidence, and the first contact. Fit means the funder's stated priorities, the population they serve, and the geography they fund genuinely overlap with your work — funders reject far more proposals for poor fit than for weak programs. Evidence means a specific, concrete description of the need you address and what your funding will change. And the first contact is rarely a full proposal: most private foundations prefer a brief letter of inquiry, and many fund only organizations they already know — so a warm introduction or a short, well-targeted note is the realistic way in.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I find grants for hospice & palliative care organizations?
- Start with foundations that already fund hospice & palliative care organizations — our index lists 13,469. Match them to your specific mission, location, and budget, then approach the best fits with a brief letter of inquiry rather than a cold full proposal.
- How many foundations fund hospice & palliative care organizations?
- Bespoke Grants tracks 13,469 foundations that fund hospice & palliative care organizations, representing $183.10B in recent grants.
- Do these foundations accept unsolicited applications?
- Some do; many do not. Each foundation's profile shows what is known about its application process. Where a funder does not accept unsolicited proposals, relationship-building is still the path in — it is rarely a dead end.