2026 Grants
Advocacy
Center for Disability and Elder Law, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
$210,000
A three-year grant for general operating support to provide legal services to low-income older adults and people with disabilities.
Citizen Action/Illinois Education Fund
Chicago, Illinois
$50,000
A one-year grant to engage in grassroots organizing of older adults to build an older adult advocacy infrastructure to address healthcare affordability and economic security.
Grantmakers In Aging
White Plains, New York
$350,000
A two-year grant to support the launch and early implementation of the State Aging Action Network (SAAN), which will leverage existing efforts to address fundamental gaps between state advocates and federal policymaking through coordination, peer learning, technical assistance, and strategic resource deployment.
Illinois Aging Services, Inc.
Springfield, Illinois
$80,000
A one-year grant to continue advocacy efforts for increased resources and supports for family caregivers throughout Illinois.
Jane Addams Senior Caucus
Chicago, Illinois
$100,000
A two-year grant to test an innovative model of tenant organizing through a focused campaign that protects low-income tenants from predatory practices, with the goal of creating an approach that organizations across the country can replicate.
Meals on Wheels America
Arlington, Virginia
$75,000
A nine-month grant to develop and deliver an impactful two-tier national and local advocacy strategy designed to increase federal funding for critical nutrition programs.
National Academy of Social Insurance
Washington, D.C.
$250,000
A two-year grant to support the Collaborative’s advocacy to protect Social Security from current threats, while beginning to shift the narrative in the lead-up to negotiations over the program’s solvency.
National Consumer Law Center
Boston, Massachusetts
$390,000
A two-year grant to continue advocacy efforts that will prevent and mitigate harmful debt for older people.
Open Communities
Evanston, Illinois
$50,000
A second-year grant to expand the “Here to Stay” housing advocacy campaign for older people.
Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, Inc.
New York, New York
$150,000
A two-year grant for a state-level advocacy campaign to build traction for the adoption of a comprehensive Universal Direct Care Workforce™ Initiative.
Public Policy Lab Inc.
Brooklyn, New York
$75,000
An eight-month grant to expand The People Say to include the voices of family caregivers—illuminating their daily realities, challenges, and sources of resilience.
Direct Service
DuPage Health Coalition
Carol Stream, Illinois
$70,000
A third-year grant to continue to provide medical debt relief for low-income older adults residing in DuPage County.
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
$100,000
A one-year grant to advance the Returning Home Occupational Therapy (ReHOT) program from a successful pilot into a replicable occupational therapy model designed to support older adults moving from homelessness into stable housing.
Working Credit
Chicago, Illinois
$50,000
A one-year grant for a pilot program to increase engagement of older adults in credit building.
Knowledge Sharing & Awareness Raising
Illinois Public Health Institute
Chicago, Illinois
$100,000
A third-year grant to improve social connectedness of older adults through improved public health and aging partnerships and collaborative planning/measurement of social isolation and loneliness across Illinois.
Metropolitan Mayors Caucus Foundation
Chicago, Illinois
$150,000
A two-year grant to support diverse cohorts of regional municipalities to develop and implement aging-in-community strategies tailored to their specific communities.
United Neighborhood Houses of New York, Inc.
New York, New York
$65,000
A one-year grant to finalize the work on the Generations Connect curriculum, develop a post-training support process, and explore the inclusion of intergenerational civic and community betterment projects.
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
$149,954
A one-year grant to expand and sustain the Age Inclusive Management Strategies (AIMS) model, which provides employers with opportunities to better understand the aging workforce and implement age-inclusive management strategies that benefit both the organization and aging employees.
Organizational Capacity Building
(Funding limited to Illinois)
Community Adult Day Center Inc.
Downers Grove, Illinois
$5,000
A six-month grant to redesign the organization’s website to better support outreach, engagement, and donor participation.
CJE SeniorLife
Chicago, Illinois
$50,000
A one-year grant to implement a new integrated software system to streamline the home-delivered meals program’s operations and enhance efficiency, accuracy, and client tracking.
Cornerstone Community Outreach
Chicago, Illinois
$10,000
A one-year grant to support the technology and infrastructure to be able to identify needed changes to better serve the growing older adult population experiencing homelessness.
Injustice Watch, NFP
Chicago, Illinois
$5,000
A six-month grant to conduct a pre-strategic planning alignment initiative.
Jones Memorial Community Center
Chicago Heights, Illinois
$5,000
A six-month grant to assess the most effective path for future growth in programming for older people.
Lugenia Burns Hope Center
Chicago, Illinois
$5,000
A six-month grant to plan the expansion of Hope Center’s connection to older people in the community.
Puerto Rican Cultural Center
Chicago, Illinois
$14,500
A six-month grant to support a strategic alignment between PRCC and a partner organization.
The Village Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
$25,000
A one-year grant to strengthen technology infrastructure and improve operational efficiency.
Research
Caring Across Generations
New York, New York
$100,000
A one-year grant to integrate the voices of older adults (65+) and their caregivers into the 1 Million Care Conversations initiative.
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
$100,000
An one-year grant to support the research, analysis, publication, and strategic dissemination of the 2026 edition of Housing America’s Older Adults.
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
$230,000
A two-year grant to develop and assess the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of SOCIAL (Strengthening Opportunities for Connection and Interaction Across the Life-Course).
The New School
New York, New York
$75,000
An 18-month grant to complete and broadly disseminate two studies previously funded, but cut by the Social Security Administration, focused on older spousal caregivers and student loan borrowers’ decisions about the timing of claiming Social Security benefits.
NORC at the University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
$129,464
A two-year grant to adapt a brief digital intervention co‑developed with LGBTQ+ older adults through iterative formative and summative testing to ensure usability, cultural relevance, and readiness for implementation.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
$113,956
A two-year grant to assess the effectiveness of a novel, anti-ageism peer-led intervention called Aging Together, which aims to reduce internalized and relational ageism and enhance social connectedness among older adults.
Urban Institute
Washington, DC
$85,000
A one-year grant to analyze the current economic well-being of older people, establish a baseline to assess the effects of pending safety net cuts on older adults, and disseminate results broadly to policy makers and advocates.
Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri
$50,000
A one-year grant to pilot a feasible and effective intervention to increase awareness of and improve skills to resist ageism.
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, North Carolina
$65,000
An 18-month grant to study a Photovoice intervention to reduce loneliness and increase social connection among transgender and gender-diverse adults age 60+.
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