Funding search · EIN 131624021 · New York, NY

William T Grant Foundation

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

454
grants reported
$47.1M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$70,280
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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7 grants matching “workforce development · $594,021

  • $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

  • $125,000

    Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024

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

  • $72,223

    University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023

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

  • $72,222

    University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023

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

  • $17,843

    Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2023

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

  • $144,445

    University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022

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

  • $17,843

    Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2022

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

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • New York University14 grants · $2.0M
  • University of California Irvine10 grants · $1.6M
  • University of California Berkeley12 grants · $1.2M
  • University of North Carolina at Greensboro6 grants · $1.2M
  • University of Pittsburgh6 grants · $1.1M
  • Pennsylvania State University6 grants · $1.1M
  • University of Illinois Chicago6 grants · $1.1M
  • University of Washington6 grants · $951,426
  • Regents of the University of Colorado5 grants · $936,303
  • University of Virginia10 grants · $927,541

Giving over time

$13.0M
2022
$16.3M
2023
$17.7M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 454 grants.

  • $511,681

    University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2023

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

  • $497,580

    The Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

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

  • $460,021

    Philanthropy New York · Th Fl, NY · 2023

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

  • $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 read all
  • $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

  • $387,727

    National Summer Learning Association · Washington, DC · 2023

    Reducing inequality convening and institutional challenge grant convening

  • $360,000

    National Summer Learning Association · Washington, DC · 2024

    Institutional challenge grant convening 2024 and reducing inequality convening 2025

  • $344,325

    Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2022

    Optimization of the rpc model: enhancing effectiveness and equity in improving the use of research

  • $336,739

    The Pew Charitable Trusts · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

    Transforming evidence funders network

  • $324,009

    The Forum for Youth Investment · Washington, DC · 2023

    Building capacity and bridging research, policy and practice

  • $323,150

    Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024

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

  • $322,667

    The Regents of the University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

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

  • $315,853

    University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023

    Codesigning family-school agency & early critical literacies of black youth towards systemic racial equity

  • $311,177

    Rutgers University Newark · Washington Street, NJ · 2023

    Tribes and families: fulfilling the dual-promise of indian child welfare reform

  • $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

  • $301,684

    New York University · New York, NY · 2023

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

  • $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

  • $297,337

    Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023

    Identifying pathways to employment for college students

  • $291,564

    University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2023

    Reducing inequalities for immigrant, multilingual students in secondary schools

  • $290,088

    Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023

    A networked improvement community approach to equitable literacy in urban schools hardin

  • $284,147

    University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022

    Codesigning family-school agency & early critical literacies of black youth towards systemic racial equity

  • $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

  • $272,761

    Michigan State University · East Lansing, MI · 2022

    Racial equity in discipline for black students

  • $267,763

    William Marsh Rice University · Houston, TX · 2024

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

  • $267,037

    Regents of the University of Colorado · Boulder, CO · 2023

    Embedding research into organizational routines to deepen the use of evidence annie allen

  • $264,864

    Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2023

    Reducing structural barriers in a school-based system of food assistance to reduce inequality in food security and child outcomes

  • $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?

  • $259,179

    University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023

    The impact of black lives matter mobilization on police departments policies to reduce racial inequality

  • $253,557

    Florida State University Research Foundation · Tallahassee, FL · 2022

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

  • $252,304

    Children'S Hospital of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

    A mixed-method evaluation of the impact of social risk screening on uptake of social assistance

  • $248,735

    University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2022

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

  • $246,333

    University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2022

    Developing an effective white bystander intervention to reduce racial inequality in higher education

  • $233,747

    New York University · New York, NY · 2022

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

  • $232,434

    New York University · New York, NY · 2023

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

  • $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

  • $231,389

    University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022

    Who benefits from the public prek and increased k-12 funding? Dynamic complementarity in californias education policies

  • $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

  • $221,254

    University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2022

    Reducing inequalities for immigrant, multilingual students in secondary schools

  • $220,701

    University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022

    An investigation of a cultural humility & social justice training and support intervention for mentors of youth of color

  • $219,043

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023

    Improving access & equity in private scholarships joshua angrist

  • $217,784

    New York University · New York, NY · 2022

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

  • $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

  • $214,563

    Behavioral Ideas Lab Inc (Dba Ideas42) · New York, NY · 2023

    Child poverty impacts of safety net responses to covid-19

  • $213,000

    Norc at the University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022

    Using a facilitated collaborative to build equity in higher education institutions

  • $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)

  • $210,764

    Regents of the University of Colorado · Boulder, CO · 2022

    Mind the gap: partnering to narrow denvers achievement gaps by retaining top teachers

  • $209,084

    University of Illinois Urbana · Urbana, IL · 2024

    Unconditional cash transfers and child maltreatment

  • $207,837

    University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2023

    A southern california regional rpp network for the comparative study of research use in anti-racist partnerships

  • $207,517

    Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2023

    Optimization of the rpc model: enhancing effectiveness and equity in improving the use of research

  • $203,407

    Regents of the University of California at Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2022

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

  • $203,386

    University of Toronto · 2023

    Youth in relation to returned land

  • $202,792

    University of North Carolina at Greensboro · Greensboro, NC · 2023

    Co-designing for parental presence in middle school stem

  • $202,097

    University of North Carolina at Greensboro · Greensboro, NC · 2022

    Co-designing for parental presence in middle school stem

  • $201,452

    University of North Carolina at Greensboro · Greensboro, NC · 2023

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

  • $201,300

    University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2022

    A southern california regional rpp network for the comparative study of research use in anti-racist partnerships

  • $200,615

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2024

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

  • $200,333

    University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    Hattie's influences on student achievement under an institutionally racist system: what works for black & brown students

  • $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

  • $200,000

    Russell Sage Foundation · New York, NY · 2023

    Advancing research on the promotion of educational attainment and economic mobility among racially, ethnically, and economically diverse groups in a post -affirmative action era

  • $198,680

    Regents of the University of California at Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2023

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

  • $198,411

    University of North Carolina at Greensboro · Greensboro, NC · 2022

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

  • $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

  • $197,546

    University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022

    Reducing inequality through school finance reforms: understanding the mechanisms and outcomes

  • $197,382

    University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023

    Interrogating successive school discipline reforms as levers for promoting racial equity

  • $196,802

    Wayne State University · Fort Wayne, IN · 2024

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

  • $195,484

    Boston College · Chestnut Hill, MA · 2022

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

  • $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

  • $185,155

    University of Toronto · 2022

    Youth in relation to returned land

  • $183,218

    University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023

    Who benefits from the public prek and increased k-12 funding? Dynamic complementarity in californias education policies

  • $183,118

    University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022

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

  • $182,404

    New York University · New York, NY · 2022

    Prosecutorial reform initiative

  • $180,526

    Norc at the University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023

    Using a facilitated collaborative to build equity in higher education institutions

  • $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

  • $179,360

    Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska for the University of Nebras · Omaha, NE · 2023

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

  • $178,722

    Washington University in St Louis · St Louis, MI · 2022

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

  • $178,165

    University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

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

  • $177,141

    Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022

    The inception and impact of researcher-policymaker relationships

  • $176,304

    University of Toronto · 2024

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

  • $176,179

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2023

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

  • $173,688

    University of Toronto · 2022

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

  • $172,620

    Rutgers University Newark · Newark, NJ · 2022

    Tribes and families: fulfilling the dual-promise of indian child welfare reform

  • $172,356

    Children'S Hospital of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

    A mixed-method evaluation of the impact of social risk screening on uptake of social assistance

  • $171,333

    Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024

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

  • $170,000

    Michigan State University · East Lansing, MI · 2023

    Racial equity in discipline for black students

  • $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

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