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The mission of the John P. Hussman Foundation is to provide life-changing assistance through medical research, education, and direct aid to vulnerable individuals having urgent needs or significant disabilities.
To achieve the greatest impact, the Foundation emphasizes projects having the capacity to save or significantly improve lives, at a small financial commitment per person affected. These projects are often on the margin that divides a modest amount of help from nothing at all.
The Hussman Foundation seeks to “tip the balance” in critical areas where research or intervention can significantly alter the course of individual lives, and where resources would otherwise not be available. The Foundation also helps organizations to develop grant-writing and reporting procedures so they can secure long-term funding from broader sources.
Foundation projects include:
- supporting promising medical research in autism, diabetes, malaria and other conditions, along under-funded lines of investigation;
- establishing model programs in a variety of fields that can provide springboards for broad replication (e.g. educational inclusion, pediatric diabetes testing), and;
- providing emergency or “stop-gap” assistance to health programs and schools in impoverished countries, where individuals suffer life-threatening diseases or are displaced without access to basic education, stable living conditions, or human rights.
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Current Projects 
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The Hussman Foundation has an ongoing partnership with Dr. Margaret Pericak-Vance and Dr. Jeffery Vance, now of the Hussman Institute of Human Genomics at the University of Miami, to identify genetic factors involved in autism.
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The Hussman Foundation is supporting the Carter Center's work to eradicate the last remaining scourge of Guinea worm in Ghana and Sudan, and to provide urgently needed long-lasting bed nets to prevent malaria in Ethiopia. For information on matching of major grants, please contact Becky Brookshire or Seema Shams at the Carter Center.
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Based on promising new findings, the Hussman Foundation is funding research by Dr. Matthew Thomas to generate basline information on the persistence and safety of fungal pesticides for the control of mosquitos and malaria.
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Thousands of children along the Thai-Burma border have no access to government aid or schooling. The Hussman Foundation provides grants for education, shelter, and health services, and assists fledgling aid organizations until they can broaden their funding sources.
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