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The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation: 22 grants to organizations, $3.6 million (tax year ended December 2025)
The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation, a private foundation in West Hartford, CT, paid 22 grants to organizations totaling $3,635,071 in its tax year ended December 2025, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on May 12, 2026. The largest was $275,000 to Emory University in Atlanta, GA for gvp-optimizing value and outcomes of palliative radiation for bone metastasis.
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- EIN
- 066348275
- Based in
- West Hartford, CT
- Assets
- $98,029,206
- Grants paid
- $3,635,071
- Tax year ended
- December 2025
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2025
From the Form 990-PF filed May 12, 2026, IRS object ID 202641329349102374. It reported $3,635,071 in grants paid; 22 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | Gvp-optimizing value and outcomes of palliative radiation for bone metastasis | $275,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Beckman Reasearch Institute City of Hope | Duarte, CA | Gvp-evaluating ai-based mortality prognostication in oncology: implications for end-of-life care and value-based decision support | $272,839 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | Gvp-optimizing hiv care for medicaid enrollees: a data-driven approach to improve outcomes | $269,057 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Boston University School of Public Health | Boston, MA | Gvp-impact of medicaid accountable care organizations on high-value mental health care | $258,135 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc | Hartford, CT | Gvp-impact of medicaid value-based payment on substance use disorder treatment in primary care | $246,520 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | Ready to scale: demonstrating the value of cross-setting palliative care | $240,119 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Personalized patient-centered eye care using telemedicine and artificial intelligence | Education | $217,679 | apps.irs.gov |
| Ut Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, TX | Informing medicare with evidence on social risk adjustment | $217,672 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | Impact of a shared decision-making intervention for families of severe acute brain injury patients | $214,795 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | Opportunity award: evaluation of hospital-at-home as an alternative to low-acuity hospital admissions from the emergency department | Education | $167,257 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Hastings Center | Garrison, NY | Putting bioethics to work on ai, trust, and health care: from theory to impact through inclusive engagement | $160,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Rand | Santa Monica, CA | Another look-incentivizing care for people with opioid use disorder in skilled nursing facilities | Public and societal benefit | $151,220 | apps.irs.gov |
| Trustees of Boston University Medical Campus | Boston, MA | Another look-investigating the relationships between nursing home architecture and health outcomes | $132,158 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Boston Medical Center | Boston, MA | Another look-incentivizing care for people with opioid use disorder in skilled nursing facilitiesanother look-incentivizing care for people with opioid use disorder in skilled nursing facilities | Health care | $123,818 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Another look-hospice visit patterns for people with dementia in assisted living and nursing homes | Education | $121,494 | apps.irs.gov |
| The New Jewish Home | New York, NY | Impact of age-friendly recognition on nursing home outcomes | $117,042 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Brown University | Providence, RI | Quality of hospice in assisted living and resident experiences at the end of life | $110,807 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Massachusetts Boston | Boston, MA | Medicaid nursing home reimbursement, staffing, and quality: a facility-level analysis | $101,622 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | Investigating modifiable determinants of post-disaster outcomes for rural nursing home residents | $74,599 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | Opportunity award: preventing and improving clinical encounters symposia grant | $70,510 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc | Hartford, CT | Opportunity award: symposium to strengthen maternal health research: payer strategies to improve maternal health care | $47,813 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | Oral care improvements for snf residents through collaborative workforce training | Education | $44,915 | apps.irs.gov |
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed May 13, 2025, IRS object ID 202531339349103068. It reported $3,176,704 in grants paid; 23 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hastings Center | Garrison, NY | Putting bioethics to work on ai, trust, and health care: from theory to impact through inclusive engagement | $320,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | Impact of a shared decision-making intervention for families of severe acute brain injury patients | $225,205 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Woman's Hospital | Baton Rouge, LA | Gvp-testing effectiveness of her health program to add healthcare value in fourth trimester | $219,395 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Personalized patient-centered eye care using telemedicine and artificial intelligence | Education | $217,716 | apps.irs.gov |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Boston, MA | Gvp-accountable care organizations in medicaid: reducing low-value care for working-age adults | $216,977 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Ut Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, TX | Informing medicare with evidence on social risk adjustment | $215,847 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wake Forest University School of Medicine | Winstonsalem, NC | Gvp-aimepcco: american indian men's experiences with prostate cancer communication | $205,757 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | Ready to scale: demonstrating the value of cross-setting palliative care | $199,881 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Center for Outcomes Research and Education (core) Providence St Joseph He | Portland, OR | Gvp-engaging hospital systems to increase colorectal cancer screening persistency & follow-up | $176,641 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Uconn Health | Farmington, CT | Another look- improving hospice use in the connecticut medicaid population with nursing home stays | $155,004 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of California Berkeley School of Social Welfare | Berkeley, CA | Another look- the care project: addressing conflicts between safety and autonomy in nursing homes | $151,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Brown University | Providence, PR | Quality of hospice in assisted living and resident experiences at the end of life | $109,193 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Miami University | Oxford, OH | R3- developing and disseminating strategies for nursing homes to fully implement the peli | $88,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care | New York, NY | Creating a web-based quality-improvement tool to help nursing homes identify facility-specific pressure-injury risks | $87,997 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | Scaling patient priorities care through user friendly training | $87,944 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Washington | Chicago, IL | Expanding crps for senior living communities | $87,383 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Massachusetts Boston | Boston, MA | Medicaid nursing home reimbursement, staffing, and quality: a facility-level analysis | $83,479 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The New Jewish Home | New York, NY | Impact of age-friendly recognition on nursing home outcomes | $83,007 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | Oral care improvements for snf residents through collaborative workforce training | Education | $76,989 | apps.irs.gov |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | Investigating modifiable determinants of post-disaster outcomes for rural nursing home residents | $74,049 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Utah College of Nursing | Salt Lake City, UT | Another look-population science informs rural nursing home resident & caregiver health initiatives | $70,676 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | Reducing unwanted care, improving outcomes/older adults with multiple chronic conditions. | $21,564 | apps.irs.gov | |
| New York University | New York, NY | Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and nursing home resident outcomes-supp. award | Education | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Education | $849,050 |
| Public and societal benefit | $151,220 |
| Health care | $123,818 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| California | $1,131,948 |
| Massachusetts | $916,189 |
| New York | $771,046 |
| Maryland | $709,057 |
| Connecticut | $707,493 |
| Virginia | $440,000 |
| Texas | $433,519 |
| Georgia | $275,000 |
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Updated May 12, 2026. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.