Health Care
New Grants Awarded $77,698,587 79 grants
Health care provider with patient

The Duke Endowment believes that all people can achieve their best health when communities are designed to support healthy lifestyles and when our health care system is able to engage patients and provide holistic care that meets the unique needs of each individual.

Grants Awarded By Strategy

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$57,972,117

Advancing Innovation

We partner with health systems and community-based organizations to identify, develop and test innovative programs that have the potential for long-term scale and sustainability.

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$14,206,173

BUILD COMMUNITY COALITIONS

We build coalitions that bring together health systems, public health agencies and community-based organizations to advance programs and policies that promote healthy lifestyles.

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$5,520,297

GRANTS SUPPORTING BOTH STRATEGIES

The Health Care program area may recommend support for infrastructure that advances work across both strategies.

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$17,022,988*

Zero to Eight

The Duke Endowment is focusing on early childhood as a way to produce greater impact across our grantmaking and provide for better and more equal opportunity for children and families. The Health Care program area’s early childhood priorities include school-based health services and maternal and infant health. 

*Included in above strategies.

2025 Grantmaking

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