The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Recent grants

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

• $12.2M

  Center On Budget and Policy Priorities · Washington, DC · 2024

  79658 advancing racially equitable economic, tax, and social policy in states and growing essential state policy infrastructure

• $8.6M

  Community Catalyst · Boston, MA · 2024

  80588 serving as the national coordinating/program office for rwjf's voices for health justice authorization

• $7.4M

  University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · Madison, WI · 2024

  80417 continuing the county health rankings & roadmaps' path in developing narratives to address the structural drivers of health inequities

• $5.8M

  Vose River Charitable Fund · Bethesda, MD · 2024

  78878 transforming local data environments through principles of health equity and justice to enable a better use of local data infrastructure and systems

• $5.2M

  Family Values Work a Multi State Consortium · Milwaukee, WI · 2024

  81571 anchoring work to make families an economic priority through the support of a new policy ecosystem -- family values @ work

• $5.2M

  Economic Policy Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

  81568 anchoring work to make families an economic priority through the support of a new policy ecosystem -- economic policy institute

• $4.5M

  Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  82080 supporting the black-led movement fund and disability inclusion fund in catalyzing investments in the racial justice and disability justice movements

• $4.2M

  Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024

  81812 continuing direct technical assistance to states, including promoting community leadership in policymaking and advancing health equity, 2024-2025

• $4.1M

  Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  82057 supporting johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health as national program center for rwjf's health policy research scholars program, 2024-2026

• $4.0M

  Center for Black Health and Equity · Durham, NC · 2024

  81364 supporting the center for black health and equity as regional hub to advance equitable commercial tobacco control in the south and midwest

• $3.6M

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  80940 supporting the national collaborative for health equity in recruiting cohort 3 for the culture of health leadership institute for racial healing

• $3.4M

  New York University · New York, NY · 2024

  80586 continuing to build the city health dashboard's impact and to deepen engagement

• $3.3M

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  81429 renewing support for the center for community investment in its capital absorption approach to addressing structural racism in community investment

• $3.3M

  Center for Community Change · Washington, DC · 2024

  81556 developing a vision for antiracist health policy and other resources for organizations working to advance an antiracist health equity movement

• $3.2M

  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  79853 supporting johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health as national program center for rwjf's health policy research scholars program, 2022-2024

• $3.1M

  Praxis Project · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  81799 supporting the health equity collective in growing and sustaining the movement for liberated leadership, phase 4

• $3.1M

  Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

  80607 supporting the network for public health law, 2023-2025

• $3.0M

  University of Minnesota Sponsored Projects Administration · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  82063 providing technical assistance and direction for the rwjf interdisciplinary research leaders program, 2024-2025

• $3.0M

  Princeton Area Community Foundation · Princeton, NJ · 2024

  82014 rwjf president's grants fund at the princeton area community foundation - 2024

• $2.9M

  University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  81637 continuing evolving rwjf's evidence for action research program to be relevant and to advance racial equity, year 10

• $2.7M

  Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2024

  82190 supporting liberation in a generation in advancing an economy in which all children and families of color have basic needs met, are valued, and belong

• $2.7M

  Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2024

  81014 general operating support for policylink, 2023-2025

• $2.6M

  Well Being and Equity in the World Institute · Nashua, NH · 2024

  81470 conducting planning for implementing justice squared, a program to prepare healthcare and public health leaders to address structural racism

• $2.4M

  Prevention Institute · Oakland, CA · 2024

  81728 expanding the people, parks, and power's broad-based movement for park and green-space equity in the u.s., led by the most-impacted communities

• $2.4M

  Community Foundation of New Jersey · Morristown, NJ · 2024

  81537 supporting equip-nj in strengthening the ecosystem of organizations working to advance health equity and rwjf's policy priorities in new jersey

• $2.2M

  Community Catalyst · Boston, MA · 2024

  81739 ensuring that marketplace coverage meets the needs of systematically excluded communities that face high out-of-pocket costs

• $2.2M

  Food Research and Action Center · Washington, DC · 2024

  80551 ramping up activities of rwjf's new jersey food security initiative to increase equitable access to healthy food in the state

• $2.1M

  Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine · New Orleans, LA · 2024

  81800 continuing to build rwjf's partners for advancing health equity program as a trusted leader in resources related to health equity

• $2.0M

  Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2024

  80600 advancing economic and racial inclusion through 'growth intermediaries' -- locally based and led institutions -- in small and midsize cities

• $2.0M

  American Heart Association · Dallas, TX · 2024

  79656 strengthening voices for healthy kids financially as it evolves from rwjf funding to a multifunder movement

• $2.0M

  Princeton Area Community Foundation · Princeton, NJ · 2024

  82346 creating the rwjf rapid response grant fund at the princeton area community foundation

• $2.0M

  Charities Aid Foundation America · Alexandria, VA · 2024

  81707 adding to the robert wood johnson foundation global fund as a donor-advised fund, 2024

• $2.0M

  Ms Foundation for Women · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  81482 supporting and growing a stronger, more effective u.s. Movement to advance birth justice, 2024-2026

• $2.0M

  National Health Law Program Inc (Nhelp) · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  81557 general operating support for the national health law program, 2024-2025

• $2.0M

  Drexel University · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  81341 illuminating and addressing structural racism in the healthcare industry: building the field from the ground up

• $1.9M

  Illinois Public Health Institute · Chicago, IL · 2024

  80167 supporting the data across sectors for health's national program office, 2022-2025

• $1.9M

  Sistersong · Atlanta, GA · 2024

  81471 general operating support for sistersong, 2024-2026

• $1.8M

  National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2024

  82107 technical assistance and direction for the robert wood johnson foundation health policy fellows program, 2024-2025

• $1.8M

  Leadership Conference Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  82231 continuing support for the data disaggregation action network in advancing state and federal policies to promote meaningful disaggregation of data

• $1.8M

  National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Atlanta, GA · 2024

  80707 supporting stretch 2.0 in supporting the skills of state team members and community partners to effect systems change to advance health equity

• $1.8M

  Ideoorg · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  81469 anchoring a vision for an abundant childcare system in the work of advocates to drive structural and systemic change in the childcare ecosystem

• $1.8M

  Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Foundation · New Brunswick, NJ · 2024

  81954 improving access to cancer care in new jersey by co-locating diagnostic and radiation oncology equipment in the morris cancer center in new brunswick

• $1.8M

  Trust for America'S Health · Washington, DC · 2024

  81941 general operating support for trust for america's health, 2024-2026

• $1.8M

  New York Foundation for the Arts · New York, NY · 2024

  81974 supporting resilience creative in creating climate entertainment that empowers and uplifts, promoting awareness of climate change and health equity

• $1.7M

  Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2024

  80235 strengthening collective state-based capacity to ensure equitable water outcomes under federal infrastructure funding, with a focus on the south

• $1.7M

  New Jersey Institute for Social Justice · Newark, NJ · 2024

  81434 supporting the new jersey reparations council in researching the enduring impact of slavery in the state toward a blueprint to repair slavery's harms

• $1.7M

  University of Miami · Coral Gables, FL · 2024

  82172 highlighting the effectiveness of community ownership of affordable housing and commercial real estate in advancing racial and health equity

• $1.7M

  Community Catalyst · Boston, MA · 2024

  80591 supporting the coverage and care initiative to expand coverage, improve the enrollment experience and benefits, and ensure access to trusted providers

• $1.7M

  Faith in Action Network · Washington, DC · 2024

  78719 general operating support for the faith in action network, 2021-2026

• $1.7M

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  80584 supporting the local solutions support center in countering abusive preemption, including evolving its own decision-making to center equity

• $1.7M

  Community Foundation of New Jersey · Morristown, NJ · 2024

  81636 developing, implementing, and operationalizing a new new jersey health initiatives program that addresses inequities that persist in the state

• $1.6M

  University of Colorado School of Public Health · Aurora, CO · 2024

  82068 providing technical assistance and direction for rwjf's systems for action research program, 2024-2025

• $1.6M

  Purpose Built Communities Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2024

  79904 strengthening and deepening purpose built communities' approach to increasing long-term health and racial equity through neighborhood transformation

• $1.6M

  Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2024

  81536 supporting the center for children and families in continuing to protect medicaid and chip and in advancing health equity for children and families

• $1.5M

  Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies · New Orleans, LA · 2024

  82380 building community power to hold public health systems accountable for addressing structural racism and entrenched health inequities

• $1.5M

  Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024

  79754 developing rapidly responsive community-engaged research on media-messaging and narrative-change strategies to promote health and racial equity

• $1.5M

  Center On Budget and Policy Priorities · Washington, DC · 2024

  81829 supporting state advocates in the south in using administrative advocacy to improve racial equity and accountability in medicaid systems

• $1.5M

  Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  81888 supporting better taxes for a better america in working to advance a progressive tax code to increase revenue for critical family-supporting programs

• $1.5M

  Notah Begay Iii Foundation · Santa Ana Pueblo, NM · 2024

  80626 general operating support for the notah begay iii foundation, 2023-2025

• $1.5M

  Health Federation of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  81811 supporting home grown in advancing policy goals and in garnering public and private investment for home-based childcare providers and networks

• $1.5M

  American Cancer Society · Kennesaw, GA · 2024

  79646 creating a comprehensive medicaid narrative to emphasize the program's potential for improving low-income individuals' equitable access to healthcare

• $1.4M

  Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

  81601 providing technical assistance and direction for rwjf's policies for action research program, 2024

• $1.4M

  Powerswitch Action · Oakland, CA · 2024

  81652 general operating support for powerswitch action

• $1.4M

  Child Trends Incorporated · Rockville, MD · 2024

  82333 facilitating a nuanced and strengths-based understanding of black families in the u.s. And exploring systems and communities with which they engage

• $1.4M

  Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2024

  82229 training a diverse set of research analysts to demonstrate the value of admin data for health equity studies and place-based research

• $1.4M

  Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

  82123 supporting the early childhood funders collaborative and its racial justice and equity fund in strengthening a comprehensive early childhood system

• $1.4M

  Economic Policy Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

  80879 strengthening collaboration between grassroots and advocacy organizations to remove racial barriers to economic inclusion for children and families

• $1.4M

  Bipartisan Policy Center · Washington, DC · 2024

  81751 providing flexible funding for the bipartisan policy center, 2024-2025

• $1.4M

  Community Catalyst · Boston, MA · 2024

  81027 general operating support for community catalyst, 2023-2025

• $1.3M

  Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers · Camden, NJ · 2024

  80263 general operating support for the camden coalition of healthcare providers, 2022-2024

• $1.3M

  Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

  81720 supporting the decolonizing wealth project in strengthening and uplifting narratives about black and indigenous caregivers -- transfer grant

• $1.3M

  Howard University · Washington, DC · 2024

  80654 supporting the center for journalism & democracy to continue investigative reporting that addresses health disparities and advances health equity

• $1.3M

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  82386 supporting the protect our care education fund in championing medicaid, expanded premium tax credits, and legal defense of healthcare, 2024-2026

• $1.3M

  United We Dream · Washington, DC · 2024

  79178 general operating support for united we dream, 2021-2026

• $1.3M

  Changelab Solutions · Oakland, CA · 2024

  80824 general operating support for changelab solutions, 2023-2025

• $1.3M

  National Asian Pacific American Women'S Forum · Chicago, IL · 2024

  79151 general operating support for the national asian pacific american women's forum

• $1.3M

  New Growth Innovation Network · Chicago, IL · 2024

  79898 supporting an 'action hub' to drive inclusive economic development, advance racial equity, and reduce health inequities in small and midsize cities

• $1.2M

  Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  81825 implementing the approaches of a health trust initiative to combat public health misinformation and disinformation and rebuild audience trust

• $1.2M

  New Growth Innovation Network · Chicago, IL · 2024

  82069 expanding the small and mid-size city hub to drive inclusive economies and racial and health equity in historically economically excluded communities

• $1.2M

  Thirdspace Action Lab Llc · Cleveland, OH · 2024

  81178 creating conditions that shift community development norms, processes, policies, and practices to a more explicitly antiracist paradigm

• $1.2M

  Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  82266 supporting the bay area regional health inequities initiative in addressing displacement by coordinating rwjf's antidisplacement community of practice

• $1.2M

  Center for Health Policy Developmentnashp · Portland, ME · 2024

  81487 general operating support for the national academy for state health policy, 2024-2025

• $1.2M

  Michigan Public Health Institute (Mphi) · Okemos, MI · 2024

  80168 supporting the data across sectors for health's national program office -- michigan public health institute, 2022-2025

• $1.2M

  Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2024

  82235 supporting the center for community uplift in using wellbeing as an anchor in addressing issues of economic mobility and the racial wealth gap

• $1.2M

  Center for Health Care Strategies Supporting Organization · Hamilton, NJ · 2024

  81729 continuing support for the medicaid leadership institute and medicaid pathways program, exploring collective leadership for strategic learning

• $1.2M

  Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  82392 developing a vision for economic justice for black disabled youth and families through community-led research

• $1.2M

  Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

  81983 supporting the public finance initiative in implementing a pilot program to strengthen the investment ecosystem of small and rural cities

• $1.1M

  National Immigration Law Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  82388 supporting the protecting immigrant families coalition in developing local, innovative solutions to barriers faced by low-income immigrant renters

• $1.1M

  Duke University · Durham, NC · 2024

  80072 supporting healthy eating research's 2022-2025 commissioned research activities

• $1.1M

  Opportunity Agenda · New York, NY · 2024

  81256 supporting a communications lab that develops a shared narrative strategy for the health equity field

• $1.1M

  Human Impact Partners · Oakland, CA · 2024

  80627 strengthening public health and community power-building partnerships to promote innovation to address structural racism and advance health equity

• $1.1M

  Community Organizing and Family Issues (Cofi) · Chicago, IL · 2024

  80592 supporting the united parent leaders action network in addressing the voicelessness of low-income parents of color in u.s. Domestic public policy

• $1.1M

  Praxis Project · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  80728 general operating support for the praxis project inc.

• $1.1M

  Center for Story Based Strategy · Oakland, CA · 2024

  82094 using a narrative and story-based strategy to transform cultural mindsets on families, children, and caregiving to address structural inequities

• $1.1M

  Community Catalyst · Boston, MA · 2024

  81939 advancing community catalyst's work to strengthen advocacy to hold hospital and health systems accountable for their role in the medical-debt crisis

• $1.1M

  Rutgers the State University of New Jersey New Brunswick · New Brunswick, NJ · 2024

  82614 supporting the rutgers center for state health policy in deepening its role of informing health policy in new jersey and around the nation, 2025-2026

• $1.1M

  Smart Growth America · Washington, DC · 2024

  80673 reconnecting small and midsize communities harmed by divisive transportation infrastructure

• $1.1M

  National League of Cities Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

  82381 spreading and scaling the proven cities of opportunity framework to enable city leaders to take meaningful action to advance equitable wellbeing

• $1.1M

  National Main Street Center · Chicago, IL · 2024

  81945 launching a pilot program to drive investment in communities of color and other economically vulnerable populations to improve local economies

• $1.0M

  Center for Health Care Strategies Supporting Organization · Hamilton, NJ · 2024

  79607 continuing support for core activities of the medicaid leadership institute and medicaid pathways program, with a focus on inclusive leadership