William T Grant Foundation

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

• $497,580

  The Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

  Redesigning the child tax credit to reduce economic inequality: changes to benefits and administration

• $429,750

  Santa Clara University · Santa Clara, CA · 2024

  Strengthening a holistic, community-based pre-collegiate and collegiate support system to enhance college matriculation, persistence, and success among latinx students in east san jos, california: preparing racially min…

• $426,494

  University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

  Improving the use of research evidence in multilingual learner policy and practice: research-practice partnership engagement with state education agency leaders

• $410,006

  Philanthropy New York · New York, NY · 2024

  Scholars retreat and meeting on mentoring and career development through fiscal sponsor philanthropy new york

• $400,219

  Drexel University · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  The promise of marijuana legalization to reduce racial disparities in youth legal system contact in new jersey

• $360,000

  National Summer Learning Association · Washington, DC · 2024

  Institutional challenge grant convening 2024 and reducing inequality convening 2025

• $323,150

  Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024

  Community-driven, technology-guided school rezoning to reduce economic segregation

• $309,912

  Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024

  A networked improvement community approach to equitable literacy in urban schools

• $305,892

  University of South Florida · Tampa, FL · 2024

  Utilizing discrete event simulation (des) to improve the use and relevance of research evidence to inform school mental health services

• $299,266

  Regents of the University of Colorado · Boulder, CO · 2024

  Embedding research into organizational routines to deepen the use of evidence

• $298,327

  Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024

  Understanding the potential of youth participatory action research to improve african american youth mental health outcomes

• $283,819

  New York University · New York, NY · 2024

  Directing change: a novel approach to addressing disparities in suicidal behaviors among latinx and lgbtq+ youth

• $267,763

  William Marsh Rice University · Houston, TX · 2024

  Brokering activities and outcomes among embedded versus informal liaisons in education research-practice partnerships

• $259,573

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024

  How can state governments most effectively use research evidence when deciding how to spend tax dollars?

• $232,013

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024

  Improving the use of research evidence to reduce child and youth opioid-related trauma: developing and testing a reflective decision analysis tool

• $230,260

  University of Delaware · Newark, DE · 2024

  The delaware early literacy research-practice partnership: catalyzing educational equality

• $227,305

  Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2024

  State-level interrupted time series of the family impact seminars: a national infrastructure for improving the use of research evidence

• $224,231

  Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska for the University of Nebras · Omaha, NE · 2024

  An online family-based program to reduce inequity among sexual and gender minority youth of color

• $221,465

  University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Interrogating successive school discipline reforms as levers for promoting racial equity

• $217,120

  University of California · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  Youth and undergraduate transformation to harness community change (youth-c2)

• $216,572

  University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024

  C2-principal preparation

• $215,979

  University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  Reducing harm from structural xenophobia for reproductive equity

• $211,588

  American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences · Arlington, VA · 2024

  A study on the corequisite model in the kentucky community and technical college system (kctcs)

• $209,084

  University of Illinois Urbana · Urbana, IL · 2024

  Unconditional cash transfers and child maltreatment

• $200,615

  Mdrc · New York, NY · 2024

  The role of community college interventions in reducing racial inequality in students academic progress

• $200,136

  University of North Carolina at Greensboro · Greensboro, NC · 2024

  One talk at a time: a racial-ethnic socialization intervention for diverse families to reduce psychosocial inequalities

• $200,000

  Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2024

  States as laboratories: experimental trial of the research-to-policy collaboration to improve states use of evidence to benefit youth

• $197,913

  Regents of the University of California at Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2024

  Reducing inequalities in opportunities to learn mathematics through adaptive teacher professional development

• $196,802

  Wayne State University · Fort Wayne, IN · 2024

  How do mixed-income neighborhood initiatives reduce educational inequality for low-income black youth?

• $194,168

  University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2024

  Bridging institutions to close youth opportunity gaps

• $192,875

  The Pew Charitable Trusts · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Transforming evidence network

• $192,101

  Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024

  What drives racial/ethnic disparities in school discipline? Understanding mechanisms to inform policy solutions

• $188,656

  University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  Microecological influences of supervision on ure in childrens mental health: secondary analysis of the child steps in california randomized effectiveness trial

• $185,829

  University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2024

  Reducing inequalities for immigrant, multilingual students in secondary schools

• $179,842

  Florida State University Research Foundation · Tallahassee, FL · 2024

  Fostering number sense development in k-1 ebs through interactive simulations and engagement in math discourse practices

• $178,165

  University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  Understanding and intervening on inequities in chronic absenteeism and its consequences among high school students

• $176,304

  University of Toronto · 2024

  Raising academic achievement in under-performing schools through improved management: a research-practice partnership

• $171,333

  Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024

  Increasing teacher diversity, supply, and retention through grow your own programs

• $169,625

  Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Enhancing nursing capacity to understand and address the needs of native american youth on the fort belknap reservation

• $168,791

  Washington University in St Louis · St Louis, MI · 2024

  Choosing opportunities: reducing racial inequality with choice neighborhoods, wrap-around services, and case management

• $167,293

  The Regents of the University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  Carpe diem (courageous, antiracist, and reflective parenting efforts: deepening intentionality with each moment)

• $162,500

  Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2024

  Disrupting inequalities along the path to college and career: a partnership between metro nashville public schools and vanderbilt university

• $157,871

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  Improving access & equity in private scholarships

• $151,936

  Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024

  Effects of work and financial assistance policies on child outcomes: long-term evidence from welfare reform experiments

• $151,616

  Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2024

  Research-practice partnerships (rpps) and racial equity in school discipline: an exploration of the functioning of equity-centered rpps and the use of research evidence

• $150,000

  National Public Radio · Washington, DC · 2024

  In support of nprs coverage of children, youth and families

• $149,999

  University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2024

  Effectiveness of a multi-system leadership strategy for using evidence during sustainment of asd interventions

• $147,901

  King'S College London · 2024

  Growing and sustaining a ure methods repository

• $147,543

  University of North Carolina at Greensboro · Greensboro, NC · 2024

  Co-designing for parental presence in middle school stem

• $146,624

  The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Reducing inequality in academic outcomes through personalized learning

• $144,445

  Georgia State University Research Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2024

  Reducing inequities in postsecondary debt and repayment through a multi-sector research-practice partnership

• $144,445

  University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024

  Focus: mental health: a stress and workforce development intervention promoting racial and economic justice among youth

• $144,445

  Florida State University Research Foundation · Tallahassee, FL · 2024

  University research partnerships to reduce educational disparity in college towns: building a model in tallahassee, fl

• $144,143

  University of Toronto · 2024

  Youth in relation to returned land

• $142,440

  Boston College · Chestnut Hill, MA · 2024

  The impact of upstream prevention of homelessness on youth educational and developmental outcomes

• $138,951

  Bank Street College of Education · New York, NY · 2024

  Public learning for a multiracial democracy: a project to construct a new narrative

• $129,818

  The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Fostering belonging in school for black and latinx students: the pathway from teachers professional learning on asset-based pedagogy to students social-emotional experiences

• $125,000

  Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024

  Building a more holistic and inclusive workforce development system for boston's youth

• $120,613

  Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024

  Identifying pathways to employment for college students

• $112,212

  Tulane University · New Orleans, LA · 2024

  How state policy affects racial/ethnic and gender equity in advanced course-taking

• $112,145

  Behavioral Ideas Lab Inc (Dba Ideas42) · New York, NY · 2024

  Child poverty impacts of safety net responses to covid-19

• $111,152

  Arizona State University Foundation · Tempe, AZ · 2024

  Changed mindsets, changed futures? Enduring effects of two social-psychological interventions

• $110,021

  Children'S Hospital of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Detecting preventable childhood vision loss and barriers to care in the navajo nation to reduce vision health disparities

• $108,332

  University of Texas · Burlingame, CA · 2024

  Restoring justice and reimaging research: building community to disrupt the cycle of violence and enhance research-practice partnerships

• $106,942

  The Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

  Assessing the effect on inequality of a childless eitc expansion for young adults

• $105,891

  Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Institute in critical quantitative, computational, and mixed-methodologies

• $105,018

  New York University · New York, NY · 2024

  Using big data to understand and reduce inequality in youth connectedness in an era of economic polarization

• $100,570

  University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2024

  Improving teacher-student relationships to help close the racial discipline gap for young students

• $100,330

  Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2024

  Top-down discipline: the effects of carceral ideology on low-income and racial minority students

• $100,000

  Bipartisan Policy Center · Washington, DC · 2024

  Leveraging a crucial window of opportunity to expand support for working families and children

• $95,937

  William Marsh Rice University · Houston, TX · 2024

  Reducing inequality through housing policies: the housing choice voucher program and its effects on academic outcomes of low-income students in houston, texas

• $87,165

  University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2024

  How ethnic studies teaching reduces racial inequality: identifying effective pedagogy and school efforts to promote it

• $87,113

  Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024

  Cisinformed: misinformation and the media war on transgender youth

• $85,811

  Clemson University · Clemson, SC · 2024

  Representation matters: compiling the data to measure the effect of teacher workforce diversity policies on reducing ethnoracial inequalities in academic outcomes

• $81,565

  New York University · New York, NY · 2024

  Exploring family civics as a lever for building power to influence education among youth and parents of color

• $81,266

  University of Tennessee · Knoxville, TN · 2024

  Racism and the mechanisms maintaining racial stratification in poverty and material hardship for families with children

• $81,229

  Harvard University · Boston, MA · 2024

  Building healthy foundations: city-wide mapping of childhood asthma rates for early identification of dangerous housing

• $80,000

  Society for Research in Child Development · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024

  Child policy connect

• $79,364

  Syracuse University · Syracuse, NY · 2024

  School victimization and hate crime exposure among asian students: an evidence base to reduce well-being inequality

• $79,025

  University of Maryland College Park · College Park, MD · 2024

  Welcoming central american newcomer immigrant students: a mixed-methods study of school-community partnerships to reduce inequalities

• $77,532

  Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  Reducing inequalities in public education through algorithmic assignment

• $77,344

  Boston College · Chestnut Hill, MA · 2024

  Strategies and conditions facilitating and hindering education law attorneys use of research evidence

• $76,670

  Community Resource Exchange · New York, NY · 2024

  Support for yscg grantees

• $76,159

  University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  Reducing socioeconomic inequality in pathways from college to work

• $70,148

  University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024

  Administrative burdens in free-college (promise) programs and postsecondary outcomes for racially minoritized students

• $69,850

  University of Illinois Urbana · Urbana, IL · 2024

  The role of income and housing support in reducing inequality in child neglect

• $68,266

  University of California Merced · Merced, CA · 2024

  Assessing the effectiveness of school district safe-zone policies in narrowing achievement gaps among minority students: evidence from california

• $66,839

  University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  Measuring educators use of research evidence from intermediary websites seeking to support social emotional learning

• $66,143

  University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024

  Understanding how u.s. Immigrant and immigration policies affect latino adolescents' school lives

• $65,938

  Washington University in St Louis · St Louis, MI · 2024

  Advancing the social and economic mobility of black male youth and young men

• $65,214

  Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024

  Structural stigma and suicide risk in gender & racial minority students: a novel study to understand & reduce inequality

• $62,017

  University of Oregon Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2024

  Mapping the civics education landscape: identifying the role of research and politics in educational decision-making

• $60,000

  University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2024

  Workshop on scaling up effective models of tutoring to reduce educational inequality in the wake of the pandemic

• $60,000

  New York University · New York, NY · 2024

  Centering equity and improving evidence use in nycs education ecosystem

• $59,368

  Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024

  The effects of alternative staffing models for instructing students with disabilities

• $56,179

  Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024

  Embracing technology to improve black youths coping with racial discrimination to reduce psychosocial inequalities

• $55,000

  Norc at the University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Mentoring and career development

• $54,142

  University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

  Mentoring and career development

• $52,845

  University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2024

  The intergenerational impacts of reparations on youth outcomes: evidence from the eastern cherokees

• $50,000

  University of Maryland College Park · College Park, MD · 2024

  Expanding the reach and impact of intersectional qualitative research methods institute to minority serving institutions