The Charles Koch Foundation supports research aimed at fostering social progress and contributing to a society that benefits mutually. It encourages research across a variety of issues that align with the Foundation’s vision and goals, advocating for innovative solutions that drive societal improvement.
The Charles Koch Foundation’s Veterans’ Issues Grant aims to address the ongoing challenges veterans face when returning from service or transitioning to civilian life, particularly in accessing timely and effective healthcare. Recognizing that legislative reforms have been insufficient, this grant program seeks to support objective research that can inform policy decisions and foster reforms in veterans' healthcare. The grant focuses on several key areas including evaluating the Veterans Affairs healthcare system and its alternatives, providing fiscal assessments of current and potential VA healthcare models, analyzing veterans' usage of the VA system versus private insurance, examining the VA's benefit structure to modernize it, exploring opportunities for increasing accountability within the VA, and comparing the quality of VA healthcare with private healthcare. This initiative is geared towards enabling social entrepreneurs to significantly improve healthcare outcomes for veterans.