The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation

The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation was established by Emily Davie Kornfeld in 1979. The Foundation was the principal beneficiary of her estate upon her death in 1989.

Mrs. Kornfeld’s personal philanthropy supported medical research in the control and treatment of pain, as well as efforts directed at enhancing individual choice in medical treatment and dying.

In the last decade the Foundation’s interests have covered bioethics, palliative care, medical research and education.

Please see our Program Areas and Recent Grants to learn more about our current grantmaking.

In an effort to secure increased funding for the field of palliative care, the Kornfeld Foundation joined with other foundations to form the Collaborative to Advance Funding for Palliative Care (CAFPAC). In 2010 CAFPAC produced a survey of the field entitled the Palliative Care Grantmaking Snapshot Report. For more information and to read the report visit www.FundPalCare.org.

"Passionate about how patients with chronic pain and illness are treated and their right to make choices in medical care, Emily Kornfeld was determined to make a difference. She was outraged at the way the medical system in the United States can swallow up a person’s choices. A real dynamo, she threw her full support into early efforts to respect advance directives."

Christopher C. Angell
President of the Emily Davie and
Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation

Updated: April 2011