Next50 is closing out our year by announcing nearly $6 million in grants to organizations across the country who are innovating to make aging more affordable and more equitable. We are proud of the over 40 organizations here that are working to create a world that values aging.
In 2026, we will continue to seek innovative ideas that build resilience and change systems across Colorado and the country to create economic opportunities and well-being for older adults. 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 fourth quarter of 2025:
All Points Transit (Colorado, $200,000 over two years) is a transportation network that ensures older adults and people with disabilities can get rides to reach essential services. This COR grant will allow them to change from a scheduled Dial-a-Ride program to one that includes a micro-transit program that supports group rides. This transition to a more reliable and affordable model will bolster the economic well-being of rural older adults by providing a less expensive transportation option.
Alzheimer Los Ángeles (California, $50,000) is on a mission to improve the lives of local families affected by Alzheimer’s and other dementias by increasing awareness, delivering services, and advocating for quality care and a cure. Next50 is sponsoring their newest endeavor: “Holding the Pieces,” a series targeted to African American caregivers and families who have a loved one with Alzheimer’s to encourage talking to a doctor and seeking out necessary resources. This sponsorship will aid in the dissemination and publication of this series.
Boulder Community Housing Corporation (Colorado, $113,000 over three years) will embark on a three-year project to instate hoarding intervention training for staff in order to help clients maintain stable housing. This project aims to help low-income older adults stay economically secure by addressing the root causes of hoarding and helping them stay housed independently for longer.
Cañon City Golden Age Center (Colorado, $34,000) services older adults through a myriad of services, including nutrition, transportation, social, and wellness programs. The COR grant will upgrade their out-of-date information and technology infrastructure, which will modernize their transit operations and improve reliability. The organization will also develop a transit driver training platform which will reduce their reliance on out of town training and expenses and allow them an opportunity to generate income by offering this training to other organizations.
CARE Fund, a project with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (National, $100,000) is a national pooled fund that brings together major philanthropic partners to strengthen the care ecosystem across the lifespan. Next50’s partnership will help the CARE fund in their work to expand access to long-term services and supports, improve job quality in direct care roles, and increase public investment in aging and disability services.
Caring Across Generations (New York, $15,000) is a national organization of family caregivers, care workers, disabled people, and aging adults working to transform the way we care in this country. Next50 contributed as a sponsor of their annual conference, Care Fest 2025. This year’s conference was specifically focused on stories about disability, immigrant, and rural experiences.
Center for Employment Opportunities (Colorado, $150,000) provides employment services to older adults returning home from incarceration. Next50 funding will help this organization develop new technology-based tools that will expand digital access and workforce readiness skills. This work greatly impacts the economic well-being of older adults, particularly those who are Black and Hispanic, by preparing them for jobs that require adequate digital knowledge.
Colorado Alliance for Caregiving Youth (Colorado, $50,000) is the first Colorado-based nonprofit dedicated to serving caregiving youth. Services help ensure the safety and health of intergenerational households and care systems across the state. COR funding will help this organization improve its data systems and receive a financial audit, which will help it pursue larger funding opportunities with the goal of delivering consistent programming and becoming a sustainable statewide partner for youth in caregiving roles.
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (Colorado, $750,000 over three years) will embark on a three-year project to expand dementia-capable respite care across the state. This Changing Aging grant will create criteria for respite care providers, ensuring that older adults and their family caregivers are getting the best, most equitable dementia care. This project will impact the economic well-being of families by offering affordable respite options that can help caregivers maintain employment and reduce health-related costs.
Colorado Gerontological Society (Colorado, $299,600 over two years) helps older adults and their families navigate complex aging services that make aging in place more affordable for low-income and other marginalized populations. This COR grant will help CGS implement two new Customer Relations Management systems that will improve its management of client data and of community partners. This new system will make sure clients are connected to all benefits for which they are eligible, ensuring they don’t fall through any financial cracks.
Commún Denver (Colorado, $227,332 over two years) addresses gentrification and displacement within a low-income, Hispanic community on the historic Loretto Heights campus. This Changing Aging grant reimagines economic development by integrating older adults into the community through small business incubation programs, financial empowerment courses, workforce coaching, and digital literacy courses. These programs will provide new and innovative ways for older adults to age in place.
Dementia-Friendly Communities of Northern Colorado (Colorado, $36,000 over two years) will use their COR funding to support the next step of their strategic planning by implementing the EOS training system. This will allow their leadership team to create a more cohesive and effective organization, ensuring they can continue to provide dementia-related services to families at no cost.
First Southwest Community Fund (Colorado, $500,000) is a partner in creating the Colorado Nonprofit Bridge Loan Fund that is designed to provide short-term, low-cost loans to nonprofits awaiting government reimbursements. Alongside the Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, the Colorado Trust, and the Boettcher Foundation, Next50 will provide a Program-Related Investment (PRI) that ensures nonprofits serving marginalized older adults can continue their operations. The bridge loans will prevent service disruptions, layoffs, and financial strain on nonprofits. These bridge loans will support the economic stability of older adults and the organizations who service them in rural and low-income areas across Colorado.
Instituto Geena Davis sobre Género en los Medios (National, $134,600) works to reinvent and transform how the media industry tells stories about marginalized communities, with a specific focus on women. Changing Aging funding will allow them to develop a comprehensive analysis of how older women are portrayed in television and film, as well as to create a new feature that helps writers spot ageist tropes and biases in scripts before they reach production. This work seeks to end ageism by analyzing and preventing biased portrayals of older women in the media with the goal of shifting how we view and portray aging.
Gratitude Care Services, Inc. (Colorado, $50,000) is a nonprofit committed to enhancing the quality of life for immigrant communities with a particular focus on older adults. Changing Aging funding will allow them to create digital literacy classes that promote digital equity and economic resilience for their clients.
History Colorado (Colorado, $75,000) is leading the charge to celebrate Colorado’s 150th anniversary. They are running ‘A Portrait of Colorado 150,’ an oral history project that will record and amplify 150 stories from 150 Coloradans. A portrait of Colorado 150 will collaborate closely with individuals and communities to document, preserve, and share inclusive stories across Colorado. Older adults have shaped our state’s history. As Colorado celebrates 150 years of statehood, Next50’s sponsorship will contribute to History Colorado’s project that records their contributions because every generation’s story has value.
History Colorado (Colorado, $100,000) is also embarking on two big legislature-directed projects: the Colorado Black Equity Study and American Indian Boarding School research. With a grant from Next50, both of these initiatives will uncover historic harms against Black Coloradans and Indigenous communities by centering older adults’ voices through listening sessions and collecting oral histories.
HomeCare & Hospice of the Valley (Colorado, $25,000) provides hospice and homecare services in the rural and frontier parts of Eagle, Garfield, and Pitkin counties. Colorado Organizational Resiliency funding will support an overhaul of their marketing strategy, including a website redesign and a refreshed communications strategy. The goal of this project is to increase visibility to reach more rural community members who are in need of services.
Housing Authority of the Town of Deer Trail Colorado (Colorado, $21,000) is a small nonprofit that provides affordable housing to rural Coloradans. Sudden & Urgent Need funding will be used to repair the failure of one hot water heater and the impending failure of another, ensuring that their low-income residents have hot and clean water in the winter months.
Hunger Free Colorado (Colorado, $113,700 over two years) will use Next50 funding to expand outreach and provide enhanced SNAP support to older adults. This Colorado Organizational Resiliency grant will allow them to update staff training material, enhance their online learning platform, and improve client outreach, all with the goal of ensuring food security for low-income older adults across the state.
India Home (New York, $200,000 over two years) is dedicated to addressing the needs of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean older adult immigrant communities in New York City. This Changing Aging grant will help them to create a Robo Pantry, which allows older adults to independently access fresh food in their local community during nontraditional hours. Food insecurity rates are high in the Jamaica, Queens neighborhood, and this innovative solution will help older adults on a fixed income access fresh food for free.
Jackson County Council on Aging (Colorado, $3,000) serves older adults in rural northwest Colorado. This Sudden & Urgent Need grant will support the purchase of new tires for the agency’s accessible vans. These vans are needed to transport older adults to medical appointments and recreational outings across long mountain passes and the new tires will ensure that the vans are safe for use in the winter.
The Learning Council (Colorado, $8,610.71) is dedicated to serving marginalized communities in the North Fork region. Due to recent anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, their building has been the target of physical and verbal harassment. This Sudden & Urgent Need grant will allow them to upgrade their security systems to ensure the safety of staff and visitors to the building.
Loving Beyond Understanding (Colorado, $50,000) is an LGBTQ+-focused organization serving Grand Junction. They will use a COR grant to standardize accounting systems, prepare for an audit, and provide professional development and training, all to create the needed structure for a fast-growing organization.
Memory Care Alliance of New Mexico (New Mexico, $60,000 over two years) brings dementia care to families and older adults of marginalized populations across New Mexico. Over the next three years, this organization will work with three new pueblos to establish communities of caregivers on tribal lands, populations that have long been underserved. This will impact the economic well-being of older adults and caregivers by giving them the tools needed to control their own health as it aligns with their values and traditions.
Milken Institute (National, $450,000 over three years) will create a Longevity Readiness Dashboard that will generate a comprehensive dataset on cultural perceptions of aging, ageism, financial readiness, and caregiving. This initiative seeks to change aging by shaping how the United States understands and responds to its aging population by generating the evidence needed to transform policy and workforce practices.
Multicultural AIDS Coalition (Massachusetts, $225,000 over two years) has spent thirty-five years delivering culturally appropriate HIV care and substance misuse prevention to residents of color in the Boston area. In partnership with the Fenway Institute, MAC will launch a new initiative that aims to document the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ older adults while connecting them to necessary benefits. This work will culminate in a brief that delivers three to five policy recommendations to health and aging agencies across New England to inform their practice to improve the economic well-being of older adults.
North 40 Mountain Alliance (Colorado, $50,000) serves unincorporated, underserved communities with no municipal services or formal social service infrastructure. COR funding will be used to work with a consulting firm to build out a strategic plan and diversified funding strategy. This opportunity will strengthen their food pantry’s long-term sustainability and directly support the economic health of older adults in their rural region.
Northeastern Junior College Foundation (Colorado, $30,000) will work in partnership with the Centennial Area Health Education Center to address the challenge of inadequate dementia care and training. These organizations will provide free dementia-focused Compassionate Care Training for nursing and criminal justice students; EMS, police, and fire staff; and residential care center staff and family caregivers. Access to this training will change aging for older adults living with a cognitive disability and change the systems who are in part responsible for their care.
Oakwood Creative Care (Arizona, $50,000) is a memory care service provider in the Phoenix area, and they are looking to expand their services to rural families living in Flagstaff, Arizona. A Changing Aging grant will allow them to increase the dementia-capable workforce in the area by teaching and incorporating the innovative and proven GUIDE and COPE methodologies. Bringing this work to Flagstaff will enable families and caregivers to have more affordable options for their loved ones, allowing older adults to age in place more affordably.
Pikes Peak Justice and Pro Bono Center (Colorado, $3,000) promotes equal access to justice through free legal clinics, free and reduced attorneys, and other community events. This Next50 sponsorship will support their annual Senior Law Day, where they provide free legal advice, free simple wills, legal classes, and other nonlegal aid information on other resources available to older adults.
Project Guardianship (New York, $150,000 over two years) is dedicated to advancing less-restrictive alternatives to guardianship for older adults and adults with disabilities, specifically working with immigrant, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized populations. This Changing Aging grant will enable them to create a new Power of Attorney program, which will allow older adults who lack other options the ability to appoint Project Guardianship as their power of attorney. This will impact the economic well-being of more vulnerable older adults, giving them more power over their financial and healthcare decisions and futures.
Qualified Listeners (Colorado, $50,000) supports veterans and their families by actively listening to their needs and connecting them to vital resources. Funding will help the organization develop a strategic plan focused on creating sustainability through a new fundraising framework and communications strategy. They will also rethink their volunteer program and prepare for when their founder chooses to step back from the organization.
Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center (Colorado, $150,000 over three years) works to foster equitable economics through business conversions, education, and support. Next50 funds will help them launch their first employee-owned home care business in Denver and two more cooperatives across Colorado. This will bolster the economic well-being of caregivers by placing the power into their own hands, which has been proven to increase wages, decrease staff turnover, and create economic opportunity for employee-owners, all while ensuring higher quality care for clients.
San Francisco Village (California, $50,000) is a successful village network in San Francisco, California. Next50 funding will be used to develop a replicable volunteer program with Southwest Community Center so they can provide essential services to older adults in the underserved, multiracial Lakeview/OMI District. This can then be used as a model for expanding their reach into other underserved neighborhoods in the area and across the state of California.
Senior Support Services (Colorado, $126,000 over two years) is Denver’s only day shelter that exclusively serves people over 60 who are experiencing housing instability, food insecurity, and other effects of poverty. This Colorado Organizational Resiliency grant will allow them to develop a new 5-year strategic plan to make informed, lasting improvements to data systems, communication strategies, funding streams, and client services. This organization’s work is dedicated to improving the economic well-being of Black, Latino, low-income, and homeless populations, and this new strategic plan will make their work even stronger.
SeriesFest (Colorado, $50,000) is a Denver-based nonprofit that strives to create impactful, inclusive opportunities in entertainment. Next50’s sponsorship of their annual festival will work to end ageism by creating a writing lab that ensures positive representation of older adults and through a panel that highlights multigenerational storylines.
Solar Finance Fund, a project of Appalachian Voices (Virginia, $150,000) is dedicated to creating renewable, efficient, and resilient energy development in Central Appalachian communities. This Changing Aging project will develop a solar-powered energy resilience hub at a local Area Agency on Aging which will regularly power the building during regular hours and times of emergencies. There will also be deployable mobile solar generators that can be sent to homes of older adults during climate disasters, grid shutdowns, or when energy bills are financially burdensome. This innovative model will improve the economic well-being of rural older adults and service providers by reducing the cost of energy in a coal-impacted area.
Sun Valley Kitchen + Community Center (Colorado, $50,000 over two years) offers no-cost groceries, free community meals, wellness services, and other programs that reflect and bolster the culture and needs of the older adults they serve. Colorado Organizational Resiliency funding will support their strategic planning and sustainability initiative focused on programmatic growth and the future of their service expansion.
University of Massachusetts Boston (Massachusetts, $175,962 over two years) will use their Changing Aging grant to develop policy-building strategies to reduce barriers older adults face in participating in higher education. By accessing higher education, older adults have the potential to increase income (e.g., through credentialing) or accessing new opportunities in the workforce (e.g., career placement services).
University of Texas Health Science Center (Texas, $149,780 over two years) is working on a project to understand what makes older adults vulnerable to financial exploitation. This specific project will help them develop and test a new tool, the Senior Assistant for Financial Awareness, which will be used to help older adults avoid scams and other instances of financial exploitation.
Village Capital (National, $150,000) will embark on a partnership with Deloitte Health Institute and Next50 to launch an accelerator focused on improving social and economic drivers of health for historically marginalized older adults. This project is seeking to impact the traditional pipeline of health-tech and social-impact innovation by putting an emphasis on founders with lived experience.
Walsh Healthcare Center (Colorado, $40,000) provides stable, safe, and reliable care for older adults. This PRI will allow them to repair the water boiler in their nursing home, bringing them up to code in line with any upcoming inspections.
Warm Cookies of the Revolution (Colorado, $50,000) works to improve the civic engagement of people across the metro Denver area. Next50’s partnership will support their Civic House Parties for older adults, a program relies on the feedback and interest from their communities and helps people host listening and talking sessions at their homes in order to be better engaged in local political and civic issues. This work will bring a new focus on economic well-being for the predominantly immigrant communities they are working with in Aurora.
YEEHAW, a project of the Otero County Health Department (Colorado, $50,000) utilizes older adult volunteers to support the area’s homeless population. Next50’s funding will help them create a responsive training program that will provide volunteers with the tools needed to successfully help their unhoused neighbors access needed resources, such as housing navigation, warming and cooling centers, and on the street engagement. This will help both volunteers and those they serve to age in place by creating a more connected community that is working to alleviate the struggles of homelessness.
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