Advancing healthcare® through philanthropy
We believe that advancing healthcare often requires more than a for-profit investment model can provide.
That’s why Deerfield employees founded and fund the Deerfield Foundation – a private, New York City-based not-for-profit organization on a mission to improve health, accelerate innovation, and promote human equity throughout the world.
Since its inception in 2005, the Deerfield Foundation has partnered with a diverse slate of healthcare-focused non-profits to make a difference in the lives of patients and families, with a special emphasis on improving children’s health. The Foundation’s funds are provided through employee contributions and directly from Deerfield’s profits.
Deerfielders at every level of our firm are active contributors to the Foundation – whether by serving on committees that shape its mission and strategy; serving as hands-on operational liaisons to organizations from clinics in the South Bronx to the highlands of Nepal; or participating in Foundation-sponsored volunteer opportunities.
2025 Foundation Partners Index
African Mission Healthcare
African Mission Healthcare strategically partners with mission hospitals across sub-Saharan Africa to provide lifesaving care today, train doctors for tomorrow, and equip hospitals to sustain and expand care into the future.
Achilles International
Achilles International is a global organization providing opportunities and support for people with disabilities interested in participating in mainstream athletics. Through a portfolio of programs, Achilles encourages personal achievement, enhances self-esteem and breaks down barriers to living a fulfilling and healthy life.
Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation
The Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF) was founded to improve the treatment, quality of life, and the long term outlook for children with brain and spinal cord tumors through research, support, education, and advocacy to families and survivors.
The Matthew Larson Foundation for Pediatric Brain Tumors (IronMatt)
The Matthew Larson Foundation, or IronMatt, is on a mission to build a network committed to reducing family hardship, funding pediatric brain tumor research, and giving children the opportunity to live long, healthy lives.
May We Help
When someone with a disability needs a device that isn’t available commercially, May We Help’s volunteers—engineers, designers, therapists, and makers—design and build custom solutions at no cost, helping hundreds achieve independence and passion every year.
Peace Islands Children’s Center
The Peace Island Children’s Center (PICC) is a transformational organization focused on improving living conditions for residents in the fishing communities surrounding Lake Victoria, Uganda.
Piers Park Sailing Center
Located on the East Boston waterfront, Piers Park Sailing Center (PPSC) offers fully accessible sailing, education, and personal growth opportunities for all ages and abilities. Their programs inspire participants to become community stewards, harbor advocates, and leaders in wellness.
The Pradiya Foundation
The Pradiya Foundation is a non-profit organization with the mission of empowering the people of India and Nepal to improve living conditions for people suffering from illness, poverty, discrimination and a lack of human rights.
Project Sunshine
Project Sunshine’s mission is to deliver the healing power of play to children with medical needs through the work of trained, dedicated volunteers and free, customizable programs.
Swifty Foundation
The Swifty Foundation raises funds and awareness for pediatric brain cancer research in celebration of the life of Michael Gustafson, who chose to donate his brain and spine to researchers after his death to help find a cure for pediatric brain cancer.
Health and Education for All
Health and Education for All (HAEFA) was founded to address the healthcare needs of Bangladesh’s garment factory workers and underserved communities in Cox’s Bazar. HAEFA focuses on primary and prevention care, using a unique electronic medical record system for efficient disease screening.
Jeffrey Modell Foundation
The Jeffrey Modell Foundation is a global non-profit organization dedicated to the early diagnosis, meaningful treatments, and ultimately, cures for primary immunodeficiency (PI) through basic and clinical research, physician and patient education, public awareness, government advocacy, patient support, newborn screening, and genetic sequencing.
Manjushree Vidyapith Inclusion School
The Manjushree Vidyapith School cares for and educates needy children from a vast area of the Northeast Himalaya, Indo-Tibet border with a focus on the upliftment and protection of girls and differently abled children. The school places great emphasis on human kindness, compassion and love with a hope to inspire young people to act with a good heart, become leaders in their communities and help bring peace to the world.
Pakistan Children's Heart Foundation
Pakistan Children’s Heart Foundation (CHF) provides full or partial financial support for lifesaving heart surgeries of deserving children in Pakistan suffering from congenital heart disease (CHD). PCHF aims to ensure that not a single child born with CHD remains untreated in Pakistan.