Russell Sage Foundation

Recent grants

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

• $199,096

  Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2023

  Informing Overconfident and Insecure Job Seekers

• $181,173

  Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023

  How Social Media Influencers Shape the Politics of Young Adults

• $176,777

  University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  The Geography of Race, Poverty, Crime, and Policing

• $146,742

  University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

  PHLRentAssist-Direct Evaluation

• $133,824

  New York University · New York, NY · 2023

  The Effect of SNAP on Financial Health

• $129,353

  Drake University · Des Moines, IA · 2023

  The inequities of unemployment

• $125,057

  University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023

  Using municipal land records to reconstruct the initial patterns and evol...

• $100,000

  University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  Political Solidarity and Political Action Among People of Color

• $99,999

  Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  Evaluating the Role of Stigma as a Barrier to Take-up of Public Benefits

• $99,840

  New York University · New York, NY · 2023

  Missing pieces in the puzzle

• $99,409

  Boston College · Chestnut Hill, MA · 2023

  Assessing the Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts of a Four Day W...

• $98,448

  University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  Surveying Perceptions of Employment Discrimination

• $97,511

  University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023

  The Geography of Race and Ethnicity in the United States

• $96,943

  University of Nebraska Lincoln · Lincoln, NE · 2023

  The Parenthood Gap: Firms and Earnings Inequality After Kids

• $96,495

  University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  A Data-Driven Study of Autopsies written for Non-Firearm Legal Interventi...

• $96,326

  Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2023

  Double Jeopardy

• $91,434

  Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023

  How Do High-Achieving Low-Income Students Make Postsecondary Decisions? I...

• $88,144

  Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023

  State-Level Safety Net Investments, Family Economic Well-Being and Childr...

• $87,184

  University of California Merced · Merced, CA · 2023

  Immigrant Peers and the Short-Run Academic and Long-Run Outcomes of US-Bo...

• $84,997

  Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023

  Demographic representation and income stratification in Puerto Rico

• $82,898

  University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023

  Enforcing Inequality

• $82,151

  Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  Reskilling and Upskilling in the Workplace

• $82,000

  University of Houston · Houston, TX · 2023

  A First Examination of Academic and Early-Career Outcomes of Refugee and ...

• $80,965

  University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  Emergency Education and Social Inequalities: Evidence from WWII in the U.S.

• $75,687

  University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

  Prosecutor-Driven Criminal Justice Reform and Socioeconomic Wellbeing

• $75,000

  University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023

  Doing Well by Doing Good? Employee Hardship Funds, worker retention, and...

• $75,000

  University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023

  Equality vs. Equity by Social Vulnerability, Race, and Ethnicity

• $75,000

  Arizona State University · Tempe, AZ · 2023

  Youth Vote and Political Engagement in Unsettled Times

• $75,000

  Joan & Sanford I Weill Medical College of Cornell University · New York, NY · 2023

  State recreational cannabis laws and racial disparities in the criminal j...

• $74,966

  Duke University · Durham, NC · 2023

  Closing the Research Gap on the Social Costs of Incarceration by Extendin...

• $74,800

  Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2023

  Social Capital & Early-Career Outcomes

• $74,721

  University of Alabama Tuscaloosa · Tuscaloosa, AL · 2023

  Pay Your Debt? How Perceived Race and Deservingness Affect Moral Dilemmas...

• $74,663

  University of Massachusetts Amherst · Amherst, MA · 2023

  How People of Color Respond to Narratives of Rising Diversity

• $74,298

  University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2023

  Measuring and Understanding New Work and Displaced Work in the US

• $72,161

  University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2023

  Generating Evidence on the Impact of Cash Transfers for Rapid Rehousing C...

• $72,000

  University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2023

  Multilayered Exclusion, Interrupted Integration

• $69,622

  Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2023

  Chilling Effects and Participation in Safety Net Programs among Children ...

• $69,086

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  A Randomized Evaluation of the Pursuit Fellowship

• $68,210

  Monash University · 2023

  Does Work from Home Work for Diversity? Evidence from a Field Experiment

• $63,145

  University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2023

  The Effects of Credit Access on Mobility and Neighborhood Choice

• $61,640

  University of North Carolina Wilmington · Wilmington, NC · 2023

  The Civil Rights Movement and Legacies of Racial Violence

• $61,189

  Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023

  The Pennsylvania Solitary Study

• $60,720

  University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  Criminal Justice Contact and Labor Market Outcomes

• $57,403

  Purdue University · West Lafayette, IN · 2023

  Attitudes About Parental Leave-Taking for Single and Same-Gender Parents

• $54,738

  Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023

  Improving the Measurement of Child Care in the Supplemental Poverty Measure

• $54,555

  University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023

  Using Large-Scale Network Data to Measure Social Returns and Improve Targ...

• $53,755

  University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023

  Unequal Treatment or Unequal Opportunity? Employer and Location Effects i...

• $53,000

  University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023

  Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grantees Conference at the University of...

• $52,875

  Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  2024 Behavioral Economics (BE) Summer Institute

• $52,341

  University of Texas Arlington · Arlington, TX · 2023

  Urban Braceros

• $50,000

  Georgia Southern University · Savannah, GA · 2023

  Crimmigration, Policing, and Black Immigrant Integration in the U.S. South

• $50,000

  University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  The Impact of Pay Transparency in Job Postings on the Labor Market

• $50,000

  University of Maryland College Park · College Park, MD · 2023

  Moving to Mobility

• $49,994

  Syracuse University · Syracuse, NY · 2023

  Immigrants and Children of Immigrants in the US Military

• $49,987

  Colorado State University Fort Collins · Fort Collins, CO · 2023

  The Geography of Union Decline in the U.S.

• $48,851

  Rice University · Houston, TX · 2023

  Locked Out of Place

• $48,795

  University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023

  Reducing Racial Polarization in Reactions to Police Use of Force

• $39,000

  St John'S University · Jamaica, NY · 2023

  Homeownership, home equity, and Black-owned business starts

• $37,500

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Champaign, IL · 2023

  Algorithmic Management in Hotel Housekeeping

• $37,500

  University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023

  Protest in Congress

• $37,500

  University of Massachusetts Boston · Boston, MA · 2023

  Hurricanes, Floods and Fires

• $37,500

  Virginia Commonwealth University · Richmond, VA · 2023

  The Structural and Cultural Context of Deaths of Despair

• $37,500

  University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Remote Work, Work-Life Conflict, and Belonging in Silicon Valley

• $37,500

  Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation · Kennesaw, GA · 2023

  Long-Term Reduction of Racial and Ethnoreligious Bias Through a New, Mult...

• $37,500

  Gettysburg College · Gettysburg, PA · 2023

  Taking Perspective

• $37,499

  New York University · New York, NY · 2023

  Transforming the narrative of racial struggle in the social movement for ...

• $37,498

  Research Foundation for the State University of New York · Albany, NY · 2023

  The Economic and Social Impact of COVID-19 and Anti-Asian Hate on Chinato...

• $37,487

  Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023

  Hidden Money: School-Supporting Non-Profit Funds and Rising Inequality

• $37,463

  University of Mississippi · University, MS · 2023

  Disability Insurance and Economic Decline in Rural America

• $37,441

  University of Connecticut · Storrs, CT · 2023

  If You Dont See Color, You Dont See Me

• $37,433

  Duke University · Durham, NC · 2023

  Has the Changing Media Landscape Affected Labor Union Organizing? Evidenc...

• $37,425

  University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2023

  Measuring the Impact of a Technology Training Program on the Economic Mob...

• $37,407

  University of Massachusetts Amherst · Amherst, MA · 2023

  Mechanisms and Extent of Penal Inequality in the United States

• $37,356

  University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Who Is and Should Be American? How Religion, Race, and Demographic Shifts...

• $37,000

  University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023

  The Life Course Implications of Legal Exclusion Among Undocumented Latina...

• $35,000

  University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023

  From Information to Participation

• $35,000

  Rutgers University New Brunswick · New Brunswick, NJ · 2023

  (Mis)Perceptions of American Economic Inequality at the Intersection of ...

• $35,000

  Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta, GA · 2023

  The Effect of Medicaid on Recidivism and Employment after Release from Prison

• $35,000

  University of Massachusetts Boston · Boston, MA · 2023

  Witnessing the Emplacement of Whiteness

• $35,000

  University of Maryland College Park · College Park, MD · 2023

  Black Men's Vocational Journeys: Overcoming Racism and Justice Involvement

• $35,000

  University of North Texas · Denton, TX · 2023

  Renewing the American Dream: The Children of Immigrants in Higher Education

• $35,000

  University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  The Socioeconomic Incorporation and Well-Being of Venezuelan Migrants Acr...

• $35,000

  Research Foundation for the State University of New York · Albany, NY · 2023

  When the Lottery of Birth is Racialized

• $35,000

  University of Massachusetts Amherst · Amherst, MA · 2023

  Time Will Tell

• $35,000

  Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023

  What is fair? Disentangling public conceptions of merit and equity in the...

• $34,920

  University of Wisconsin Madison · Madison, WI · 2023

  Charter Schools in the Southern City

• $34,360

  Emmanuel College · Boston, MA · 2023

  Beyond White Picket Fences

• $34,261

  Colgate University · Hamilton, NY · 2023

  Subjective feelings of falling behind other whites and being passed by pe...

• $32,849

  University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

  Effects of School Officers on Student Outcomes

• $32,838

  Rutgers University New Brunswick · New Brunswick, NJ · 2023

  The Impact of Massachusetts' Chapter 40B on Affordable Housing Beneficiaries

• $32,650

  Washington Center for Equitable Growth · Washington, DC · 2023

  The Future of Public Sector Worker Power

• $32,240

  University of British Columbia · 2023

  Causes and Macroeconomic Implications of the Growth of the Professional B...

• $31,660

  University of Toronto · 2023

  Does Better Information Reduce Gender Discrimination in the Technology In...

• $30,516

  University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2023

  Addressing Racial Inequities in Prosecution

• $30,000

  University of Georgia Research Foundation · Athens, GA · 2023

  The effects of eviction moratoria and renter-supportive measures on the p...

• $30,000

  University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  The Power of Second Sight

• $30,000

  American University · Washington, DC · 2023

  SNAP Distribution Schedules and Student Standardized Test Score Performance

• $30,000

  Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023

  Abandoned by everyone else

• $30,000

  Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2023

  Navigating Town-Gown Dynamics in New Haven, CT

• $30,000

  University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2023

  Alienated Activism