Our Impact

Funding new facilities, offering innovative therapies, and expanding access to care across the country.

Making a Difference

How We Create Change

Elea Institute partners with our grantees to fund new facilities, offer innovative therapies, and expand access to care across the country. We improve end-of-life awareness and cultivate positive change for patients, caregivers, and providers.

By offering grants, sponsoring and conducting research, and supporting wide-ranging initiatives, we strive to remove barriers to care, ensuring that compassionate and effective end-of-life care is accessible to all who need it.

Our Aspirations

What We Work Toward

Improve Access to Healthcare

Improve Access to Healthcare

Expanding the reach of high-quality hospice and palliative care to underserved communities nationwide.

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 Advance Research, Education, and Training

Advance Research, Education, and Training

Supporting meaningful research and educational programs that strengthen the care workforce.

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 Increase End-of-Life Care Awareness

Increase End-of-Life Care Awareness

Raising public awareness so more families can make informed decisions about end-of-life care.

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Featured Publication
Not Just Visitors White Paper

Not Just Visitors: Integrating Family Caregivers in Care Delivery and Design

Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC)  ·  September 2025

This white paper, funded in part by Elea Institute, examines how healthcare organizations can meaningfully integrate family caregivers as active participants in both the delivery and design of care — moving beyond treating them as passive visitors to recognizing their essential role.

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Research Report
Research

Research Report: Caregivers in Hospice and Palliative Care

Joint research findings from Elea Institute and NPHI

Caregivers fall into 4 categories: proactive problem solvers, balanced embracers, effective coordinators, and devoted givers.
Caregivers do not perceive for-profit vs nonprofit as a decision-making factor in hospice decisions.
Caregivers feel isolated, often experiencing worsening physical and mental health themselves.
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Our Grantees

Partners in Care

Elea Institute funds organizations across the country working to transform end-of-life care. Learn more about our grants awarded.

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By offering grants and supporting wide-ranging initiatives, we strive to remove barriers to care, ensuring that compassionate and effective end-of-life care is accessible to all who need it. Kent Mathy — Chairman of the Board

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