Making the Health-Care Law Work: A Sampling of Big Foundation Grants

$32.7-million

Purpose: To help states carry out the law by giving grants in three areas—to health-care resource centers that can offer guidance to states; to consumer groups to help influence the debate in their states; and to research institutes to monitor and track the impact of the law (for two years ending in May 2013)

Donor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

$6.7-million

Purpose: To create the Affordable Care Act Implementation Fund to help nonprofit coalitions work to put the law into effect in their states (commitments through 2013)

Donors: Atlantic Philanthropies, California Endowment, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Ford Foundation, Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, an anonymous foundation. Money is distributed by Community Catalyst, a nonprofit advocacy group.

$1.2-million

Purpose: To help Grantmakers in Health connect and provide information to foundations that are supporting efforts to put the law into place

Donors: More than 30 foundations

$460,000

Purpose: To keep foundations informed about federal regulations that affect how states put the law into place

Donors: Atlantic Philanthropies, California Endowment, Commonwealth Fund, Nathan Cummings Foundation, HJW Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, SCAN Foundation

$400,000

Purpose: To help states hire grant-proposal writers to apply for federal money to help them carry out the law

Donor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Money is distributed to state and local foundations by Grantmakers In Health.