The Hitchcock Foundation is an independent non-profit foundation located in Lebanon, New Hampshire. The mission of the foundation is to aid and advance the study and investigation of human ailments and injuries, and the causes, prevention, relief, and cure thereof, and the study and investigation of problems of hygiene, health and public welfare, and the promotion of medical, surgical and scientific learning, skill, education and investigation, and to engage in and conduct and to aid and assist in medical, surgical and scientific research in the broadest sense. The assets of the foundation are managed and administered under the leadership of the board of trustees.