The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

44 grants matching “agenda” · $11.8M

• $1.1M

  Opportunity Agenda · New York, NY · 2024

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

• $500,000

  Black Directors Health Equity Agenda · Chicago, IL · 2024

  81461 supporting the 2024 black directors health equity agenda national summit -- health equity 2024: charting our course

• $450,000

  Opportunity Agenda · New York, NY · 2024

  82457 general operating support grant for the opportunity agenda

• $444,838

  Council On Black Health · Winston Salem, NC · 2024

  82234 continuing strengthening the nbo partnership roundtable as a sustainable model for pursuing a national agenda to advance health in the black community

• $333,283

  Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2024

  80938 advancing a decolonizing agenda to address health inequities and help build global and local u.s. Solutions

• $208,835

  Organisation for Economic Co Operation and Development (Oecd) · 2024

  81593 providing global learning for u.s. Changemakers for implementing a crosscutting agenda on wellbeing and inclusion

• $180,000

  Big Cities Health Coalition (Bchc) · Bethesda, MD · 2024

  80507 supporting bchc in executing an urban health agenda, building the public health infrastructure, and advancing health equity -- transfer grant

• $150,000

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

  81452 supporting the united parent leaders action network in advancing narratives, paradigms, and agendas centering children and caregiving as priorities

• $57,618

  Public Agenda · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  79446 examining perspectives of people seeking behavioral and physical healthcare to understand the impact of and to improve inadequate provider networks

• $49,933

  Council On Black Health · Winston Salem, NC · 2024

  80076 strengthening the national black organization partnership roundtable to ensure a sustainable model for advancing a national black health agenda

• $24,965

  Wested · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  78757 developing a research agenda on how the justice system impacts health equity and on what innovations may mitigate inequities

• $10,000

  National Public Education Support Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  79579 integrating health into the learning agenda and programmatic priorities of the data funders collaborative

• $1.0M

  Opportunity Agenda · New York, NY · 2023

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

• $450,000

  National Med Fellowships · New York, NY · 2023

  80921 advancing an actionable agenda for equitable and accountable healthcare systems that improve health outcomes for historically marginalized communities

• $449,402

  Council On Black Health · Winston Salem, NC · 2023

  80076 strengthening the national black organization partnership roundtable to ensure a sustainable model for advancing a national black health agenda

• $400,000

  Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies · New Orleans, LA · 2023

  79715 facilitating meaningful, authentic engagement to mobilize the power of community actors to advance a community-driven health equity and healing agenda

• $358,333

  National Alliance of Community Economic · Washington, DC · 2023

  80352 advancing a broad, cohesive, and consistent advocacy and research agenda focused on community-based development organizations

• $333,283

  Vanderbilt U · Nashville, TN · 2023

  80938 advancing a decolonizing agenda to address health inequities and help build global and local u.s. Solutions

• $230,355

  National Governors Assn Ctr for Best P · Washington, DC · 2023

  76592 extending and expanding the center for best practices' program, supporting governors in leading a policy agenda to build a culture of health in states

• $112,500

  Fair Share Hous Ctr · Cherry Hill, NJ · 2023

  80909 supporting the united black agenda in expanding capacity to engage new jerseyans in prioritizing the policy priorities of black and brown communities

• $90,000

  National Pub Edu Sup Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

  79579 integrating health into the learning agenda and programmatic priorities of the data funders collaborative

• $67,500

  Agenda for Children · New Orleans, LA · 2023

  78987 examining eligibility barriers at the state and local levels in louisiana that impact low-income children's access to child-support programs

• $54,130

  Public Agenda · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

  79799 developing lessons learned from work in creating a sustainable, inclusive, research-informed engagement infrastructure -- phase 4

• $12,500

  Fair Share Hous Ctr · Cherry Hill, NJ · 2023

  79467 building communications capacity of the united black agenda to engage more new jerseyans in activities to advocate for new jersey's black communities

• $2,500

  Opportunity Agenda · New York, NY · 2023

  Matching gift

• $518,562

  Public Agenda · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

  79446 examining perspectives of people seeking behavioral and physical healthcare to understand the impact of and to improve inadequate provider networks

• $499,905

  Council On Black Health · Winston Salem, NC · 2022

  80076 strengthening the national black organization partnership roundtable to ensure a sustainable model for advancing a national black health agenda

• $487,172

  Public Agenda · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

  79799 developing lessons learned from work in creating a sustainable, inclusive, research-informed engagement infrastructure -- phase 4

• $400,000

  Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies · New Orleans, LA · 2022

  79715 facilitating meaningful, authentic engagement to mobilize the power of community actors to advance a community-driven health equity and healing agenda

• $312,731

  Drexel U Dornsife Sch of Pub Hlt · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

  76764 establishing the council on black health partnership to develop a national solutions-oriented agenda for improving health in the black community

• $291,667

  National Alliance of Community Economic · Washington, DC · 2022

  80352 advancing a broad, cohesive, and consistent advocacy and research agenda focused on community-based development organizations

• $250,000

  In Our Own Voice Nat Black Womens Repro · Washington, DC · 2022

  80287 general operating support for in our own voice: national black women's reproductive justice agenda

• $198,000

  Big Cities Hlt Coal · Bethesda, MD · 2022

  80507 supporting bchc in executing an urban health agenda, building the public health infrastructure, and advancing health equity -- transfer grant

• $112,500

  Fair Share Hous Ctr · Cherry Hill, NJ · 2022

  79467 building communications capacity of the united black agenda to engage more new jerseyans in activities to advocate for new jersey's black communities

• $100,000

  National Pub Edu Sup Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

  79579 integrating health into the learning agenda and programmatic priorities of the data funders collaborative

• $73,070

  Northwestern U Sch of Educ & Soc Pol · Evanston, IL · 2022

  76009 proposing a consensus policy agenda that can garner bipartisan support to improve opportunities for children

• $67,626

  Boston U Sch of Pub Hlt · Boston, MA · 2022

  76132 transcending differences and developing a common communications agenda on firearms that appeals to all in preventing gun violence

• $52,768

  Public Agenda · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

  78648 strengthening a sustainable, inclusive, research-informed engagement infrastructure to create a health system that meets consumers' needs -- phase 3

• $47,314

  Public Agenda · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

  77745 promoting global innovations to advance a healthier democracy in the united states for underserved citizens through meaningful civic participation

• $7,140

  Lakeland Health Foundation Benton Harbor · Saint Joseph, MI · 2022

  78722 producing an interactive digital time line to advance a social justice, anti-racist, health equity agenda in a politically conservative community

• $521,205

  Public Agenda · Brooklyn, NY · 2020

  76539 Developing a sustainable, inclusive, researc

• $425,828

  Public Agenda · Brooklyn, NY · 2020

  77745 Promoting global innovations to advance a he

• $325,000

  Public Agenda · Brooklyn, NY · 2020

  77584 Developing a sustainable, inclusive, researc

• $2,500

  Opportunity Agenda · New York, NY · 2020

  Matching Gifts

Top recipients

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

• Community Catalyst26 grants · $53.3M
• New Venture Fund84 grants · $47.3M
• Third Sector New England38 grants · $19.9M
• Community Catalyst9 grants · $17.3M
• Center On Budget and Policy Priorities11 grants · $17.0M
• Urban Inst40 grants · $16.9M
• Policylink20 grants · $15.5M
• Borealis Philanthropy18 grants · $14.7M
• Center On Budget & Pol Priorities20 grants · $13.9M
• University of Wisconsin Population Healt4 grants · $13.2M

Giving over time

Grant history

The 100 largest of 13,555 grants.

• $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

• $10.5M

  Community Catalyst · Boston, MA · 2020

  77294 Serving as the national coordinating/program

• $10.0M

  Community Catalyst · Boston, MA · 2023

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

• $8.6M

  Community Catalyst · Boston, MA · 2024

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

• $8.3M

  Community Catalyst · Boston, MA · 2023

  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

• $7.4M

  University of Wisconsin Population Healt · Madison, WI · 2023

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

• $7.4M

  American Heart Assn · Dallas, TX · 2020

  77906 Supporting the American Heart Association's

• $5.8M

  American Heart Assn · Dallas, TX · 2022

  77906 supporting the american heart association's next phase of the voices for healthy kids initiative, specifically to advance health equity for children

• $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

• $5.6M

  Illinois Pub Hlt Inst · Chicago, IL · 2020

  77041 Supporting the Data Across Sectors for Healt

• $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

• $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

• $5.0M

  Faith in Action Ntwk · Washington, DC · 2022

  80311 supporting the faith in action endowment in creating racial and economic justice in the united states

• $5.0M

  Naacp Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2022

  80310 supporting the naacp endowment in helping to sustain the fight for civil rights and to weather the rising tides of inequality and injustice

• $5.0M

  Strategic Investment Fund for La Raza (S · Washington, DC · 2022

  80339 supporting the unidosus endowment in enabling action on issues/policies that require an immediate response on behalf of the latino community

• $4.9M

  Princeton U · Princeton, NJ · 2022

  79459 continuing direct technical assistance to states, including advancing community leadership in policymaking, 2022-2024

• $4.8M

  Princeton U · Princeton, NJ · 2023

  79459 continuing direct technical assistance to states, including advancing community leadership in policymaking, 2022-2024

• $4.8M

  Princeton U · Princeton, NJ · 2020

  77271 Providing technical assistance and peer lear

• $4.8M

  Race Forward · Washington, DC · 2023

  81035 general operating support for race forward, 2023-2025

• $4.5M

  University of Wisconsin Population Healt · Madison, WI · 2022

  78090 strengthening county health rankings & roadmaps' efforts to change narrative and catalyze action on health and equity in communities

• $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

• $4.5M

  Trust for Am Hlt · Washington, DC · 2020

  77527 General operating support during the COVID-1

• $4.4M

  Community Catalyst · Boston, MA · 2022

  79840 assisting with enrollment and renewal for populations most likely to be or become uninsured during a historically complex coverage environment

• $4.3M

  Roosevelt Inst · New York, NY · 2022

  78053 accelerating learning about base-building organizations' role in creating community power, advancing systems change, and combating structural racism

• $4.3M

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2020

  77575 Advancing Forward Promise's efforts to addre

• $4.3M

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

  79851 recruiting and onboarding a second cohort of participants for the culture of health leadership institute for racial healing

• $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

• $4.2M

  Center On Budget & Pol Priorities · Washington, DC · 2022

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

• $4.2M

  New York U · New York, NY · 2023

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

• $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

  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch of Pub Hlt · Baltimore, MD · 2022

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

• $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

• $4.0M

  Catholic Charities USA · Alexandria, VA · 2020

  77463 Providing emergency assistance during the CO

• $4.0M

  Feeding Am · Chicago, IL · 2020

  77464 Providing emergency assistance during the CO

• $4.0M

  Mary Reynolds Babcock Fdn · Winston Salem, NC · 2020

  77538 Providing emergency assistance during the CO

• $4.0M

  Meals On Wheels Am · Arlington, VA · 2020

  77467 Providing emergency assistance during the CO

• $3.9M

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

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

• $3.7M

  Urban Inst · Washington, DC · 2022

  79821 identifying policy and practice changes for medicaid and the social safety net to move the nation toward health equity and racial justice, 2022-2023

• $3.6M

  Center On Budget & Pol Priorities · Washington, DC · 2020

  77522 General operating support during the COVID-1

• $3.6M

  Roosevelt Inst · New York, NY · 2020

  78053 Accelerating learning about base-building or

• $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

• $3.5M

  Minnesota U of · Minneapolis, MN · 2022

  79917 continuing support for and evaluating the rwjf interdisciplinary research leaders program, 2022-2023

• $3.5M

  Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

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

• $3.4M

  New York University · New York, NY · 2024

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

• $3.4M

  Ideo Org · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  79490 implementing phase 2 of the health equity collective in advancing equity and addressing racism, sexism, ageism, and discrimination in institutions

• $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

  Right To the City Allian · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

  78048 strengthening base-building organizations to bring tens of thousands of people impacted by housing instability into a powerful movement for change

• $3.3M

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Adv · New York, NY · 2023

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

• $3.3M

  Leadership Conf Edu Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

  78879 advancing state and federal policies for meaningful data disaggregation, allowing research and advocacy to identify gaps in and achieve racial equity

• $3.3M

  Smart Growth Am · Washington, DC · 2023

  80673 reconnecting small and midsize communities harmed by divisive transportation infrastructure

• $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

• $3.1M

  Vose River Charitable Fund · Bethesda, MD · 2023

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

• $3.1M

  Praxis Proj · Oakland, CA · 2023

  80797 implementing phase 3 of the health equity collective as a stand-alone, self-determined, co-led entity for modeling and spreading health equity

• $3.0M

  Leadership Conf Edu Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

  78879 advancing state and federal policies for meaningful data disaggregation, allowing research and advocacy to identify gaps in and achieve racial equity

• $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

• $3.0M

  Peoples Action Inst · Chicago, IL · 2023

  78049 training local tenant-led collectives and supporting base-building innovations to address crises in housing insecurity, homelessness, and evictions

• $3.0M

  Princeton Area Comm Fdn · Princeton, NJ · 2023

  80890 rwjf president's grants fund at the princeton area community foundation - 2023

• $3.0M

  Urban Inst · Washington, DC · 2023

  80785 providing actionable research to inform policy choices aimed at improving access to affordable coverage and care and addressing equity, 2023-2025

• $3.0M

  Peoples Action Inst · Chicago, IL · 2022

  78049 training local tenant-led collectives and supporting base-building innovations to address crises in housing insecurity, homelessness, and evictions

• $3.0M

  Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2020

  77744 Supporting Borealis Philanthropy's Black-led

• $3.0M

  National Domestic Workers Allian · New York, NY · 2020

  77472 Providing emergency assistance during the CO

• $3.0M

  National Low Income Hous Coal · Washington, DC · 2020

  77462 Providing emergency assistance during the CO

• $3.0M

  Notah Begay Iii Fdn · Santa Ana Pueblo, NM · 2020

  77976 General operating support during the COVID-1

• $3.0M

  Peoples Action Inst · Chicago, IL · 2020

  78049 Training local tenant-led collectives and su

• $3.0M

  Southern Partners Fund · Atlanta, GA · 2020

  77534 Providing emergency assistance during the CO

• $3.0M

  Minnesota U of · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  81124 continuing support for and evaluating the rwjf interdisciplinary research leaders program, 2023-2024

• $2.9M

  Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2022

  78395 ensuring that effective laws and policies are in place to address future public health emergencies and create more-equitable health outcomes

• $2.9M

  Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2020

  76499 Increasing the Network for Public Health Law

• $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

• $2.9M

  Center On Budget & Pol Priorities · Washington, DC · 2020

  77552 Expanding the Safety Net Initiative to provi

• $2.8M

  Rutgers St U of Nj Ctr for St Hlt Pol · New Brunswick, NJ · 2020

  77873 Implementing a population-based cohort study

• $2.8M

  Lincoln Inst of Land Pol · Cambridge, MA · 2022

  77272 transforming the community investment system to improve population health, 2020-2023

• $2.8M

  Robert Wood Johnson U Hosp Fdn · New Brunswick, NJ · 2022

  79910 installing a digital operating system for 26 operating rooms at rwj university hospital to streamline surgical flow and ensure patient safety

• $2.7M

  Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2024

  81014 general operating support for policylink, 2023-2025

• $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

  Community Catalyst · Boston, MA · 2020

  77520 Organizing outreach and public education in

• $2.6M

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

  79428 supporting the culture of health leadership institute for racial healing and its first cohort to advance racial and health equity in the leaders' work

• $2.6M

  Camden Coal of Hltcare Providers · Camden, NJ · 2020

  77319 Advancing the complex-care field and maturin

• $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

• $2.5M

  Array Allian · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  80614 supporting the production of the origin film and narrative change social impact campaign

• $2.5M

  Center for Popular Democracy · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

  81163 building grassroots power to advance housing justice for tenants facing housing insecurity and to achieve transformational change

• $2.5M

  Peoples Action Inst · Chicago, IL · 2023

  81191 building community power to support tenants facing housing insecurity and to advance base-building innovations to improve people's lives

• $2.5M

  Right To the City Allian · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

  81144 general operating support for the right to the city alliance

• $2.5M

  America'S Promise Allian for Youth · Washington, DC · 2020

  77401 General operating support for America's Prom

• $2.5M

  Center for the Collab Classroom · Alameda, CA · 2020

  77514 General operating support for Center for the

• $2.5M

  One Fair Wage · Cambridge, MA · 2020

  77642 Providing emergency assistance during the CO

• $2.5M

  Princeton Area Comm Fdn · Lawrenceville, NJ · 2020

  78043 RWJF President's Grants Fund at the Princeto

• $2.5M

  American Nonsmokers Rights Fdn · Berkeley, CA · 2020

  77723 General operating support for American Nonsm

• $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

• $2.4M

  Lincoln Inst of Land Pol · Cambridge, MA · 2020

  77272 Transforming the community investment system

• $2.4M

  American Heart Assn · Dallas, TX · 2022

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

• $2.3M

  Cultural Wellness Ctr · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  81221 providing technical assistance and direction for rwjf's community solutions for health equity program

• $2.3M

  Praxis Proj · Oakland, CA · 2020

  76474 General operating support for the Praxis Pro

• $2.3M

  Center for Popular Democracy · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

  78050 building community power through housing justice and local base-building

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