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The Cost of Prejudice: Discrimination in Health Care Services

The Scan Foundation

Funding Amount

$99,788

Deadline

Rolling / Open

Grant Type

foundation

Overview

The Cost of Prejudice: Discrimination in Health Care Services

Funder: The SCAN Foundation
Recipient: UMass Boston
Award Year: 2025
Geographic Scope: National
Strategic Priority: Medicare-Medicaid Integration

Overview

This grant to UMass Boston will examine how various forms of perceived discrimination impact both older adults' experiences with the health care system and any health care costs associated with those experiences within the delivery system.

    Focus Areas

  • Forms of discrimination examined:
  • - Racial discrimination - Age discrimination - Gender discrimination - Weight-based discrimination - Sexual orientation discrimination - Physical disability discrimination - Wealth-based discrimination
  • Health care system experiences
  • Health care costs
  • Equity in health care

What The Scan Foundation actually gave

Source: IRS Form 990-PF, 2024

Grants in 2024
54
Total given
$6.96M
Median grant
$78K
Range
$8,552–$649K
  • By dollars: California 28%, District of Columbia 22%, New York 17%. Top recipient cities: Washington, DC; Brooklyn, NY; Hamilton, NJ.
  • 2% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
  • 54% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.

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  • Generation · Washington, DC

    Improve financial security for older adults by addressing root causes

    $348K

  • Stanford University · Redwood City, CA

    Strengthen aging & health infrastructure; drive representation in data collection &…

    $330K

  • Digital Medicine Society Inc · Boston, MA

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    $300K

IRS Form 990-PF, 2024. Amounts as reported by the funder. Full 990 history →

Focus Areas & Funding Uses

Fields of Work

nonprofitsseniorshealthcarehealth-disparities

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