Funding search · EIN 131635303 · New York, NY
Russell Sage 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.
- 469
- grants reported
- $19.7M
- total given
- 2021–2023
- filing years
- $30,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2023. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Top recipients
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- Harvard University19 grants · $1.1M
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- New York University16 grants · $912,743
- University of California Los Angeles14 grants · $839,195
- Columbia University12 grants · $652,264
- Brown University10 grants · $578,223
- University of California Berkeley12 grants · $569,958
- Boston University12 grants · $524,396
- Stanford University10 grants · $495,075
- University of Wisconsin Madison8 grants · $408,267
Giving over time
Grant history
The 100 largest of 469 grants.
- $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
- $174,976
Social Science Research Council · Brooklyn, NY · 2021
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2022
- $174,500
Washington University St Louis · Saint Louis, MO · 2021
National Study of Fear of Deportation: Wave 2
- $166,553
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2022
Colleges and Upward Mobility in the US Over the Last Century
- $164,485
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2021
The Origins and Effects of the Antiracism Uprisings of 2020
- $146,742
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
PHLRentAssist-Direct Evaluation
- $140,778
Rutgers University New Brunswick · New Brunswick, NJ · 2021
Police Exposure and Socioeconomic Well-being among African American men
- $137,249
University of Oklahoma · Norman, OK · 2022
Backlash? Schooling Reassignments and the Politics of School Desegregation
- $135,293
University of Mississippi · University, MS · 2022
Whiteness in Crisis?
- $134,250
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Insurance in the Gig Economy
- $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...
- $123,724
New York University · New York, NY · 2021
Understanding and improving polarization on social media
- $119,043
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2021
Changing Dominant Carceral Attitudes: A Deep Canvass Field Experiment
- $118,031
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2021
The rise of punitive criminal justice policy in the wake of the Great Mig...
- $117,604
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2022
Applying Behavioral Science to Improve Remote Working
- $115,064
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2021
Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Financial Well-Being Disparities...
- $115,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Reducing Racial Health Care Gaps via Physician Solidarity Signals
- $114,578
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2021
Authoritarian Policing and Americas Incomplete Democratization
- $113,016
University of Wisconsin Madison · Madison, WI · 2021
Inequalities in Financial Coping During the COVID-19 Crisis
- $108,562
University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2021
Education and Financial Vulnerability across the Adult Life Course during...
- $100,000
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Political Solidarity and Political Action Among People of Color
- $100,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Evaluating the Role of Stigma as a Barrier to Take-up of Public Benefits
- $100,000
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2022
Double Jeopardy
- $99,999
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Evaluating the Role of Stigma as a Barrier to Take-up of Public Benefits
- $99,841
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
Missing pieces in the puzzle
- $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...
- $99,409
Boston College · Chestnut Hill, MA · 2022
Assessing the Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts of a Four Day W...
- $98,449
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Surveying Perceptions of Employment Discrimination
- $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
- $97,420
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2021
Reducing Racial Polarization in Reactions to Police Use of Force
- $96,943
University of Nebraska Lincoln · Lincoln, NE · 2023
The Parenthood Gap: Firms and Earnings Inequality After Kids
- $96,496
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
A Data-Driven Study of Autopsies written for Non-Firearm Legal Interventi...
- $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
- $95,790
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics (2022)
- $95,094
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Why Prosecuting Nonviolent, Misdemeanor Offenses Yields Poorer Outcomes
- $93,398
University of Maryland Baltimore County · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Racial Discrimination, Identity, Socialization and Civic Engagement among...
- $91,434
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
How Do High-Achieving Low-Income Students Make Postsecondary Decisions? I...
- $90,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2021
Demographic representation and income stratification in Puerto Rico
- $88,788
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2021
Impacts of COVID-19 and the Unemployment Insurance System on Workers, Fir...
- $88,568
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
The Segregation Lab: Building Research Capacity for Addressing Inequality
- $88,346
University of Wisconsin Madison · Madison, WI · 2021
Baby's First Years: Mothers' Voices
- $88,144
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
State-Level Safety Net Investments, Family Economic Well-Being and Childr...
- $88,129
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2021
The Impact of Housing Vouchers on Social Service Usage, Health, and Well-...
- $88,000
University of California Merced · Merced, CA · 2022
Immigrant Peers and the Short-Run Academic and Long-Run Outcomes of US-Bo...
- $87,184
University of California Merced · Merced, CA · 2023
Immigrant Peers and the Short-Run Academic and Long-Run Outcomes of US-Bo...
- $87,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
Asian Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- $86,745
National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2021
Reducing Racial Inequalities in the Justice System
- $85,881
Trinity University · San Antonio, TX · 2022
Can Education Fight Inherited Inequity? Using Administrative Data to Meas...
- $85,000
Trinity University · San Antonio, TX · 2021
Can Education Fight Inherited Inequity? Using Administrative Data to Meas...
- $84,997
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
Demographic representation and income stratification in Puerto Rico
- $84,426
University of Wisconsin Madison · Madison, WI · 2022
Baby's First Years: Mothers' Voices
- $83,785
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2021
Racial Inequality in Police Violence
- $83,432
University of Denver · Denver, CO · 2021
Registering Returning Citizens to Vote
- $82,898
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Enforcing Inequality
- $82,867
National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2022
Policies to Reduce Intergenerational Poverty
- $82,151
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Reskilling and Upskilling in the Workplace
- $82,151
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
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.
- $80,407
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
The inequities of unemployment
- $80,038
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2021
Organizational diversity, peer influences, and partisan effects in policing
- $77,592
Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2021
Emergency Relief Fund for Undocumented and Low-Income Students
- $76,392
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2021
Unintended Benefits of COVID-19? Impacts on Job Flexibility and the Gende...
- $75,968
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Reducing Racial Disparities in Bail Decisions
- $75,687
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Prosecutor-Driven Criminal Justice Reform and Socioeconomic Wellbeing
- $75,498
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2022
Trajectories of Segregation in the U.S. Metropolis, 1900-1970
- $75,167
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2022
Unintended Benefits of COVID-19? Impacts on Job Flexibility and the Gende...
- $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...
- $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
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Displaceability by Design
- $75,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
Equality vs. Equity by Social Vulnerability, Race, and Ethnicity
- $74,966
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2023
Closing the Research Gap on the Social Costs of Incarceration by Extendin...
- $74,932
University of North Carolina Charlotte · Charlotte, NC · 2022
Beyond Changing Minds
- $74,877
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2022
The Assimilation Experiences of Unaccompanied Migrant and Orphaned Children
- $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
- $74,383
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2021
Trajectories of Segregation in the U.S. Metropolis, 1900-1970
- $74,299
University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2022
Measuring and Understanding New Work and Displaced Work in the US
- $74,298
University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2023
Measuring and Understanding New Work and Displaced Work in the US
- $74,140
University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2021
Reuniting Families
- $73,891
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022
The racial wealth gap, 1850-2020
- $72,162
University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2022
Generating Evidence on the Impact of Cash Transfers for Rapid Rehousing C...
- $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
- $71,109
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2021
The racial wealth gap, 1850-2020
- $70,000
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2022
Chilling Effects and Participation in Safety Net Programs among Children ...
- $69,622
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2023
Chilling Effects and Participation in Safety Net Programs among Children ...
- $69,509
New York University · New York, NY · 2021
Urban Flight and Avoidance in the 21st Century
- $69,453
Indiana University Bloomington · Bloomington, IN · 2021
Representation, Responsiveness, and COVID-19
- $69,379
Indiana University Bloomington · Bloomington, IN · 2022
Representation, Responsiveness, and COVID-19
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