Next50 has invested nearly $4 million in grantees across the country who are leading the way in making aging more affordable and equitable. We are excited to share the organizations working to create a world that values aging.
At Next50, we seek innovative, equitable ideas that build resilience and change systems to create opportunities for older adults and the organizations supporting them. Our approach combines grantmaking, sponsorships, and impact investing to support impactful services, practical research, effective policy, and narrative change.
While our funding is invitation-based, we’d love to hear from any organization working to create economic opportunities for older adults. Schedule a meeting with one of our Community Impact Managers to explore possibilities!
Listed below are the organizations that received funding in the third quarter of 2025:
60+ Ride (Colorado; $144,000) provides tailored transportation solutions for older adults living in Weld County, particularly to those facing barriers due to mobility challenges or geographic isolation. This Colorado Organizational Resiliency (COR) grant will support their new project, the Ten City Tour, which will work with senior centers, libraries, and city governments to create a lasting network of transportation opportunities tailored to each city’s unique needs. This will impact the economic well-being of rural older adults by providing access to basic needs services and transportation at no charge.
AgeWell Middle Tennessee (Tennessee; $50,000) is a Nashville-based organization that focuses on creating innovative solutions to meet the financial needs of older adults and their caregivers. Funding will support AgeWell’s RESET program, which is a collaboration between six financial service providers who have created a “no wrong door” approach to connect older adults with different kinds of financial assistance. This program will primarily focus on helping older Black women who live on fixed incomes to access benefits, increase savings, and reduce debt.
American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education (Illinois; $60,000) will partner with Gulfcoast Legal Services to educate and equip lawyers and other advocates with the tools necessary to prevent homelessness among older adults. This project is being created to help low-income and other marginalized older adults age in place without facing the risk of homelessness. This work will impact systems change at a higher level due to its potential for replicability in other communities across the country.
California Health Report, a project with Tides Fund (California; $150,000) produces solutions-focused journalism to address health equity issues, with coverage focusing specifically on marginalized populations across California. This Changing Aging grant will allow them to hire a reporter who is dedicated to covering aging-related topics, which can reshape how aging is understood, addressed, and legislated in California and beyond. This grant has the potential to impact the economic well-being of older adults at a policy level due to their journalism’s reach among state lawmakers.
Center for People with Disabilities (Colorado; $80,000) is a Center for Independent Living, helping older adults and people with disabilities live independently and age in place. This COR grant will let the organization transition from paper recordkeeping to a comprehensive, digital database. This transition will help them reduce the cost of services, increase accuracy and efficiency of tracking and reporting, and strengthen programs designed to benefit older adults.
Colorado Consumer Health Initiative (Colorado; $200,000 over two years) partners with consumers and advocacy organizations across Colorado to identify healthcare system issues and develop improvement strategies, all with the goal of promoting health literacy and reducing medical debt. Next50 funding will allow CCHI to expand into southwest Colorado, bringing its Consumer Assistance Program to rural Coloradans. Their work helping older adults manage medical billing and enroll in public health insurance programs will make it more affordable to age in place – without the hefty price tag of medical debt.
Conectoras de Montbello, a project with the Latino Community Foundation of Colorado (Colorado; $75,000 over two years) is a grassroots, Latino-led and Latino-serving nonprofit that provides programs on health and wellness, legal resources, and digital education to older adults in Denver. This COR grant will support their transition to becoming an independent 501(c)(3) organization.
Consumer Technology Association Foundation (National; $75,000) is an organization that links older adults and people with disabilities to technology that enhances their lives. This sponsorship will support the Consumer Electronics Show 2026 conference and its pitch competition that showcases life changing technology for older adults and individuals with disabilities.
Eaton Senior Communities Foundation (Colorado; $70,260 over two years) provides older adults with a variety of affordable living choices, programs, and activities that enrich their lives and help them age in place. For the last eight years, Eaton has been developing REACH, an interview tool that captures health and wellness information across the eight dimensions of wellness. This Changing Aging grant will allow them to bring on two DU researchers to analyze their years of data and publish a white paper that seeks to show how housing, healthcare, and quality of life impact health equity for older adults.
Family Caregiver Center of New Mexico (New Mexico; $105,000 over three years) is New Mexico’s only community-based organization dedicated to supporting caregivers, which they do through care navigation, support groups, and educational tools. The Changing Aging grant will allow them to create a virtual platform that connects caregivers with each other and with helpful resources. This work will impact the economic wellbeing of caregivers by providing access to financial assistance programs, financial planning, and other resources needed to maintain their jobs and secure financial independence.
GenPride (Washington; $215,000 over two years) is the first and only organization in Washington to exclusively serve LGBTQ+ older adults. With a Next50 grant, GenPride will launch a PrideReady Training Series that will provide culturally relevant and responsive training to nonprofits and for-profits across Seattle. Their model of providing LGBTQ-focused training for older adult-serving organizations, and older adult-focused training for LGBTQ-serving organizations, will change aging from the top of organizations all the way down to the individual clients.
Grand County Rural Health Network (Colorado; $300,000 over two years) is a health alliance working to support the health of rural residents and Grand and Jackson Counties. This grant will allow them to improve their organizational resiliency by modernizing their infrastructure, be it through a new case management electronic medical record or a new system for reimbursements and billing. This will strengthen their capacity to serve older adults by improving tracking, evaluation, and compliance while also enabling cost recovery.
Greater Purpose Media, a project with Denver Film (Colorado; $50,000) is highlighting how ageism intersects with race and gender. Funding will support a new documentary that tackles the economic vulnerability that Black women face due to decades of system inequities in wages, caregiving, access to capital, and housing. This project seeks to reframe aging as not an individual financial failure, but rather as a systemic crisis.
Hawai’i Public Health Institute (Hawai’i; $257,000 over two years) will work in partnership with the University of Hawai’i Center on Aging to launch the Affordable Aging Innovation Hub. This project will identify and create practices that are rooted in culture and driven by community in order to make aging more affordable for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander older adults. With a specific focus on affordable housing, health, and community practices, this work will promote low-cost supports to help reduce reliance on costly care alternatives.
Hope Renovations (North Carolina; $180,000) is a North Carolina-based organization that provides hands-on construction training and apprenticeships for women and gender nonconforming individuals, with a particular focus on home renovations to help older adults age in place. Next50 funding will enable them to hire a project manager and a crew lead to oversee their expansion into rural and Black populations who live in and surrounding Chapel Hill. These innovative renovations will help restore the livability and economic sustainability of the older adults in their area.
Kavod Senior Life (Colorado, $257,703 over two years) is a HUD affordable housing provider that currently houses more than 400 older adult residents in Denver. For this Changing Aging grant, Kavod will be the first HUD building to integrate CAPABLE, which is an evidence-backed program that supports aging in place through a combination of work with an RN, an OT, and with home renovations. Studies have shown that a $3,000 investment in CAPABLE yield more than $30,000 in medical savings per older adult, which will have a huge impact on the low-income older adults residing in Kavod.
The National Academy of Social Insurance (Washington, D.C., $300,000 over two years) is a network of more than 1,300 of America’s leading social insurance experts. Four of the biggest players have come together to create a collaboration called Social Security Rapid Response Collaborative, which will support a messaging, research, and advocacy campaign to provide infrastructure to protect Social Security from current and future threats. This work will greatly impact the economic wellbeing of older adults across the country who rely on the financial benefits provided by Social Security.
Nevada Senior Services (Nevada, $5,000) is a Las Vegas-based nonprofit that supports older adults aging in place. They host the Engaging with Aging (EWA) conference, which explores innovative solutions for aging services and how to respond to a shifting landscape of funding and resources. Next50’s sponsorship of EWA25 will allow them to bring in impactful speakers, highlight the work of historically marginalized communities, and assemble thought leaders in the aging space
North Fork Senior Connection (Colorado; $27,000) is a nonprofit in the rural North Fork Valley that provides programs and services to help older adults age in the community. This COR grant will help them navigate a recent merger with the Paonia Senior Center by providing them with funds to assume management of the senior center, develop a strategic plan, and plan a fundraising strategy. This work will help older adults in Paonia continue to age affordably.
The Office of the Future of Work (Colorado; $132,385) is the arm of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment that leads efforts to prepare Coloradans for a changing economy shaped by demographics, technology, and globalization. Support from Next50 will allow OFW to launch a statewide initiative to analyze employment challenges facing older adults, with a specific focus on marginalized groups, including Black, Hispanic, rural, low-income, veteran, and immigrant populations. This work will have a systems-level impact as it will be used to inform policy, program design, and funding decisions through gained insights, surveys, and data.
Para Ti Mujer a project with Latino Coalition for Community Leadership (Colorado; $100,000) will partner with Silver Key to launch a unique volunteer and community engagement program for Latino older adults. This project will involve training thirty bilingual older adults in Colorado Springs to serve as community outreach navigators to increase the number of older Latinos receiving transportation, nutrition, and caregiving services by Silver Key. This work will support the economic wellbeing of the volunteers as well as the community to whom they provide outreach, through stipends and cost reducing services respectively.
Philanthropy Colorado (Colorado; $100,000 over two years) is a statewide network that connects and strengthens Colorado’s philanthropic community through collaboration and learning. This partnership with Next50 will deepen philanthropic engagement with aging and its intersection with other issues, such as health equity, economic mobility, housing, climate, and caregiving. This work seeks to change aging across Colorado by helping other funders understand the importance of incorporating aging into their funding decisions.
Salida Senior Daycare (Colorado; $5,400) provides older adults in Salida with a place for respite, socialization, activities, meals, and transportation. This Sudden & Urgent Need grant will help them pay for new tires, a new windshield, and a full inspection for the van that they use to transport older adults to and from their facility.
Senior Connection (Massachusetts; $185,000 over two years) will use Next50 funding to acquire a formal Rural health clinic designation for their mobile health clinic, the Care Express Bus. This will allow them to provide licensed medical care, behavioral health work, and prescription services to rural older adults who are often disconnected from traditional care systems. By bringing health services directly to the older adults who need them, The Senior Connection will ensure that older adults can age in place healthily, independently, and out of institutional settings.
The Senior Resource Development Agency (Colorado; $167,000 over two years) serves Pueblo and Pueblo County with twelve supportive services for older adults, including nutrition, transportation, a disability resource center, and more. They will use COR funding to launch a catering service with the goal of generating sustainable revenue to fund their programs for low-income, disabled, and rural older adults.
Sesame 3G (Colorado; $50,000) will bring a proven, intergenerational mentoring model to Colorado in collaboration with Colorado State University. By connecting three generations (older adults, young adults, and children) through joyful, research-based activities that foster belonging, purpose, and well-being, the program directly addresses social isolation while challenging stereotypes about aging. This pilot partnership will support interactions that break down age-based biases and replace them with empathy, learning, and shared community.
University of Utah (Utah; $68,500) runs the Sorenson Impact Institute, which accelerates the integration of impact across sectors, thus expanding the market for impact investment. This sponsorship from Next50 will help build a roadmap for impact investing in aging that can be utilized by foundations and investors who are looking to maximize their impact in the aging field.
VeteransPlus (Florida; $50,000) is working to transform military and veteran support through partnerships with national nonprofit, government entities, and higher education institutions. This collaboration will result in the creation of an AI platform designed to simplify and personalize access to essential services for older veterans. This platform will reduce the cost of aging for our veterans by increasing access to healthcare, disability compensation, housing support, and caregiver services, all while eliminating confusion and delays that can often accompany navigating government systems.
ViVe Wellness (Colorado; $300,000 over two years) is an organization that provides culturally competent and bilingual services to Latino and immigrant communities in metro Denver. COR funding will allow them to hire and train bilingual navigators, lead workshops, and organize trips to help older adults access benefits. These services will help older adults who are facing increased discrimination and decreased financial support to age in place.
Western Colorado Alliance (Colorado; $100,000 over two years) is a grassroots community organization that is dedicated to empowering residents in rural Western Colorado to advocate for solutions in their communities. Changing Aging funding will support community organizing efforts aimed at improving and expanding transportation in Western Garfield County, where the lack thereof is a significant barrier to employment and upward mobility. This grant will directly improve economic opportunities by connecting residents to healthcare, jobs, and other services.
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