Copic Medical Foundation

Funding a future of better outcomes for all.

Part of our family of companies, the Copic Medical Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that provides grants and scholarships, with the ultimate aim of improving healthcare outcomes. The Foundation is part of the legacy of our first external, non-physician board member, Harold “Hal” Williamson—reflecting his passion for giving back to the community in real and meaningful ways.

Today, the Foundation’s efforts extend across multiple states, and have impacted the lives of many. Since 1991, we’ve provided more than $12 million in funding to improve patient care and medical outcomes.

We’re on a mission to improve healthcare outcomes.

Our goal is to be a catalyst—improving the quality of healthcare delivery by reducing adverse outcomes and supporting innovation.

This is what drives us.

Hear from Foundation members about our strategic focus and initiatives, as well as past grantees about what we’ve helped them achieve.

Our grants

We’re looking for scalable solutions to fight fragmentation.

As part of our larger commitment to patient safety, our 2025 focus for grant funding is reducing fragmentation across care settings. A top concern in the field of patient safety, breakdowns in care from a fragmented healthcare system can lead to readmissions, missed diagnoses, medication errors, delayed treatment, duplicative testing and procedures, and reduction in quality of care leading to general patient and provider dissatisfaction.

We’re excited to fund approaches that take on these safety concerns. For the Foundation’s grant funding, contributing to a solution means supporting scalable or replicable solutions, focusing on the testing of new ideas or growing existing solutions, and then seeing avenues for larger application. This will be our last grant cycle focused on reducing fragmentation across care settings. The Foundation will evaluate and revise our focus area for the 2026 grant cycle, to be posted in fall 2025.

What we fund:

Programs and initiatives that improve patient safety and quality of care through systems changes and improvements
Pilot programs designed to reduce medical errors
Development and implementation of tools to improve care delivery

Other minimum criteria to be considered:

Approach or program demonstrates potential for uptake or replication by the healthcare community
Organization is designated as a 501(c)(3) organization or has an identified fiduciary
We prioritize projects that exemplify sustainability, feasibility, replicability and scalability

Deadlines, applications, and requests for proposal.

The 2025 grant application cycle is now closed.

If you have any questions, please contact Meredith Hintze at [email protected].

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See how our grant recipients are making a difference.

Our grantees are changing healthcare for the better in communities across the country. Explore their stories—we’re sure you’ll be inspired!

Grant outcomes

Grantee Summit: Bringing together changemakers

Each year, the Copic Medical Foundation hosts past and current grantees and community partners at our annual Grantee Summit. At this event, we host partners from across the country in Denver for a chance to connect, share learnings and explore opportunities for collaboration related to the grant focus area of “reducing fragmentation across care settings.” This event is a key aspect of our work to achieve our goal to be a catalyst in improving the quality of health care delivery by reducing adverse outcomes and supporting innovation.

Meet our Executive Director, Meredith Hintze

Since joining Copic in 2019, Meredith Hintze has used her expertise and experience to maximize the impact of the Copic Medical Foundation. She has formed meaningful partnerships, focused on tangible results, and built strong, personal connections with leaders in communities across the country.

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