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.

149 grants matching “coloring” · $39.3M

• $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

• $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

  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

• $900,000

  Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation · Little Rock, AR · 2024

  81586 supporting leaders of color and high-impact advocacy organizations serving communities of color to address root causes of racial inequity in arkansas

• $675,000

  Pivot Fund · Lawrenceville, GA · 2024

  81770 strengthening local news organizations led by traditionally marginalized and black, indigenous, and other people of color toward health equity

• $650,000

  Color of Change Education Fund · Oakland, CA · 2024

  82407 working to cut the flow of contributions through donor-advised funds to anti-dei actors and organizations

• $525,929

  Center for Justice Innovation · New York, NY · 2024

  81466 convening a national conversation on reforming municipal courts and their harmful outcomes for lower-income communities and communities of color

• $466,667

  Brooklyn Communities Collaborative · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  81418 establishing a program to center community voice in addressing the maternal health crisis facing women of color in central and east brooklyn, n.y.

• $404,496

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  81549 driving insurance-industry investment in communities with low income and communities of color to advance equity -- transfer grant

• $300,000

  Independent Sector · Washington, DC · 2024

  81672 supporting the ceo circle of color in positioning leaders of color to advance racial equity in community development -- transfer grant

• $270,000

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  82537 advancing the leadership and power of young parents and caregivers of color to influence changes to the care and tax systems

• $230,846

  State Voices · Washington, DC · 2024

  81821 supporting the strategic resilience network in building and sustaining the resilience of leaders of color at the national level

• $225,000

  Initiative for Medicines Access and Knowledge (I Mak) · Lewes, DE · 2024

  82049 examining how pharmaceutical companies abuse the patent system to achieve financialized goals, with a focus on the impact on communities of color

• $215,916

  Equivolve Consulting · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  82341 supporting the mobility unbound project in building a network of people of color organizations to gain decisionmaking power on mobility justice issues

• $210,874

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  77575 advancing forward promise's efforts to address racial trauma among youths of color

• $188,757

  Proinspire · Arlington, VA · 2024

  80321 exploring the social-sector conditions that people of color leaders need to thrive at individual, organizational, and community levels

• $180,000

  Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd · New York, NY · 2024

  80814 studying state public-banking proposals to determine whether and how they could reduce the racial wealth gap in communities of color

• $172,530

  Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024

  81916 exploring the impact of financialization and structural racism on the conditions women workers of color face in home healthcare

• $170,000

  Fines and Fees Justice Center · New York, NY · 2024

  81197 developing a communications strategy to reform unjust and harmful fines and fees imposed on low-income communities and communities of color

• $156,000

  West Marion Community Forum · Marion, NC · 2024

  81641 deepening a partnership with communities of color to advance culturally informed mental/behavioral health policy and care in marion, n.c. -- cshe 2.0

• $150,150

  Monarch Family Services · Houston, TX · 2024

  82059 examining obstacles to supported permanency for black, indigenous, and other people of color kinship caregivers in the foster care system

• $150,000

  Women'S Foundation of the South · New Orleans, LA · 2024

  82535 exploring strategic investments that advance the wellbeing of women and girls of color in the south

• $137,411

  Multiplier · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  82110 supporting the water hub's color of water project to ensure that water news reflects the voices and values of impacted communities -- transfer grant

• $112,725

  Disability Policy Consortium · Malden, MA · 2024

  79546 examining racial barriers to independent living for black, indigenous, and people of color with disabilities in the greater springfield, mass., area

• $103,510

  Brandeis University · Waltham, MA · 2024

  79624 examining disabled people of color's experience with structural racism/ableism barriers in accessing medicaid home and community-based services

• $100,000

  Dancers' Group · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  81307 supporting sins invalid, with the crip survival network, to enable disabled people of color to survive climate crises and rising ableism and racism

• $98,264

  University of Memphis · Memphis, TN · 2024

  81683 examining the impact on health and racial equity of states' preemption of workers' rights, with a focus on communities of color in the u.s. South

• $90,000

  Disability Voices United · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  81663 strengthening advocacy for the right to care by people of color with disabilities through training, coalition building, and collective leadership

• $89,517

  Wayne State University · Detroit, MI · 2024

  82332 developing health equity training for health professionals, focusing on the intersection of disability and aging in communities of color

• $75,620

  University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2024

  80812 developing a land-justice framework and constructing policy scenarios to increase equitable land access for farmers of color in rural california

• $63,800

  Center for Third World Organizing · Oakland, CA · 2024

  80644 going beyond funding to build the ecosystem needed to support leaders of color in building liberatory organizations and enabling liberatory visions

• $50,000

  Players Philanthropy Fund Dba the Care2blossom Collective · Towson, MD · 2024

  82121 providing a sponsorship for the inaugural speechwriters of color conference

• $50,000

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  82641 supporting grantmakers for girls of color's 'when the rainbow is not enough, the imperative of investing in black girls and women's wellbeing' event

• $47,370

  Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2024

  80237 building a tax system that advances economic liberation for children and families of color

• $40,000

  Dnps of Color · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  82239 supporting dnps of color's 2024 annual conference

• $37,500

  National Women'S Law Center · Washington, DC · 2024

  80916 supporting the national women's law center in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion, 2023-2024

• $37,500

  Institute for Women'S Policy Research · Washington, DC · 2024

  80956 supporting the institute for women's policy research in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion, 2023-2024

• $37,500

  Powerswitch Action · Oakland, CA · 2024

  80915 supporting powerswitch action in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion, 2023-2024

• $37,500

  Justice for Migrant Women · Fremont, OH · 2024

  80883 supporting justice for migrant women in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion, 2023-2024

• $37,500

  Economic Policy Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

  80912 supporting the economic policy institute in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion, 2023-2024

• $25,400

  League of Conservation Voters Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  79584 leveraging a transportation funding plan in maricopa county, az, to reduce the heat island effect and fund urban greenways in communities of color

• $22,000

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

  79989 training up to 50 low-income parents of color across illinois in 'the cofi way,' supporting those parents as powerful systems-change agents

• $20,915

  Sisterhood for Equity Consulting Llc · Woodland, CA · 2024

  79035 documenting inequities in access to early childhood education and child-care services faced by mothers of color enrolled in ca community colleges

• $19,000

  Women of Color in Community Development · Washington, DC · 2024

  79872 general operating support for women of color in community development

• $16,120

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

  78343 elevating the voices of low-income parents of color to advance policies for early childhood development responsive to their experiences

• $10,100

  West Marion Community Forum · Marion, NC · 2024

  78450 partnering communities of color and hospital leaders in marion, nc, to advance culturally informed mental/behavioral health policies and practices

• $4,759

  Managed Access To Child Health Inc Dba Partnership for Child Health · Jacksonville, FL · 2024

  78451 amplifying the voice and power of communities of color to prevent youths' disproportionate involvement in the justice system in jacksonville, florida

• $250

  Project South the Institution for the Elimination Poverty & Genocide · Decatur, GA · 2024

  81381 supporting the kindred southern healing justice collective in equipping communities of color to transform trauma using a healing justice framework

• $1.0M

  Nafasi Fund · Huntsville, AL · 2023

  81473 supporting the moriah group in advancing the work of forward promise to affirm the full humanity of people of color

• $954,200

  Prevention Inst · Oakland, CA · 2023

  78667 supporting the people, parks, and power initiative for park and green-space equity for low-income communities of color

• $875,000

  Colorofchangeorg Educ Fund · Oakland, CA · 2023

  80304 general operating support for the color of change.org education fund inc.

• $810,000

  Lincoln Inst of Land Pol · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  80555 driving insurance-industry investment in low-income communities and communities of color to advance equity

• $750,000

  Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  79004 building the capacity and sustainability of media outlets led by people of color in providing accurate public affairs news for communities of color

• $750,000

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

  81214 supporting fair representation in redistricting to address racial gerrymandering and protect voting power in communities of color

• $750,000

  Community Organizing and Fam Issues · Chicago, IL · 2023

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

• $626,381

  Economic Pol Inst · Washington, DC · 2023

  79538 producing original research to disrupt structural racism's cycle of economic hardship impacting low-income children and families of color

• $574,200

  Center for Third World Organizing · Oakland, CA · 2023

  80644 going beyond funding to build the ecosystem needed to support leaders of color in building liberatory organizations and enabling liberatory visions

• $500,000

  Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2023

  80913 supporting liberation in a generation in helping build the power of people of color to transform the economy

• $479,534

  Boston Med Ctr Corp · Boston, MA · 2023

  80905 centering the leadership of people of color to establish community-powered, equitable food systems to nourish all children and families with dignity

• $426,330

  Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2023

  80237 building a tax system that advances economic liberation for children and families of color

• $404,456

  Urban Inst · Washington, DC · 2023

  81290 making homeownership more sustainable for households of color as a primary tool of wealth-building

• $337,500

  Powerswitch Action · Oakland, CA · 2023

  80915 supporting powerswitch action in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion, 2023-2024

• $337,500

  Economic Pol Inst · Washington, DC · 2023

  80912 supporting the economic policy institute in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion, 2023-2024

• $337,500

  Institute for Womens Pol Rsh · Washington, DC · 2023

  80956 supporting the institute for women's policy research in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion, 2023-2024

• $337,500

  Justice for Migrant Women · Fremont, OH · 2023

  80883 supporting justice for migrant women in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion, 2023-2024

• $337,500

  National Womens Law Ctr · Washington, DC · 2023

  80916 supporting the national women's law center in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion, 2023-2024

• $315,000

  New York U Col of Global Pub Hlt · New York, NY · 2023

  81273 learning from cities developing initiatives to preserve wealth among homeowners of color through home repair

• $270,000

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Adv · New York, NY · 2023

  81212 supporting the water hub in advancing its color of water initiative to ensure that water news reflects the voices and values of impacted communities

• $258,750

  Health Res in Action · Boston, MA · 2023

  81236 facilitating mandela yoga in public health crisis communities to achieve systems change and self-healing and leadership for patients of color

• $250,000

  Movement Strat Ctr · Oakland, CA · 2023

  81302 supporting birth center equity in growing the financial resources needed to increase access to midwifery and birth-center care in communities of color

• $250,000

  Montclair St U Fdn · Montclair, NJ · 2023

  80977 increasing the skill and numbers of journalists of color in nj newsrooms and journalistic content produced by and for communities of color

• $228,600

  League of Conservation Voters Education · Washington, DC · 2023

  79584 leveraging a transportation funding plan in maricopa county, az, to reduce the heat island effect and fund urban greenways in communities of color

• $200,000

  Demos a Netwk for Ideas & Action · New York, NY · 2023

  80814 studying state public-banking proposals to determine whether and how they could reduce the racial wealth gap in communities of color

• $150,000

  Social & Envir Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2023

  81257 supporting the national queer and trans therapists of color network in establishing a membership base to advance healing-justice and safety strategies

• $148,250

  Project South the Inst for the Eliminati · Decatur, GA · 2023

  81381 supporting the kindred southern healing justice collective in equipping communities of color to transform trauma using a healing justice framework

• $145,080

  Community Organizing and Fam Issues · Chicago, IL · 2023

  78343 elevating the voices of low-income parents of color to advance policies for early childhood development responsive to their experiences

• $125,000

  Dancers Grp · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  81307 supporting sins invalid, with the crip survival network, to enable disabled people of color to survive climate crises and rising ableism and racism

• $124,351

  Disability Pol Consort · Malden, MA · 2023

  79546 examining racial barriers to independent living for black, indigenous, and people of color with disabilities in the greater springfield, mass., area

• $118,156

  Brandeis U · Waltham, MA · 2023

  79624 examining disabled people of color's experience with structural racism/ableism barriers in accessing medicaid home and community-based services

• $113,966

  Smart Home Am · Mobile, AL · 2023

  80140 furthering resiliency awareness in alabama and reducing climate-change health and financial stressors in low-income communities/communities of color

• $112,500

  Harvard U · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  80861 interdisciplinary research leaders: promoting mental health for lgbtq+ youths of color in the context of structural racism and anti-lgbtq+ stigma

• $105,283

  Danielle Marie Crookes - Northeaste · Boston, MA · 2023

  79245 studying the impact of county-level sanctuary policies for adult immigrants of color on the receipt of preventive care for cardiovascular disease

• $105,000

  Stanley Ray Vance - California U of · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  77151 examining mental health outcomes and gender affirmation for transgender youths of color -- stanley ray vance jr., md

• $100,000

  East Bay Community Fdn · Oakland, CA · 2023

  81237 funding partnerships of people of color healing justice practitioners and movement leaders in california to center healing in advancing racial justice

• $94,209

  Community Fdn of Nj · Morristown, NJ · 2023

  80694 accelerating and enhancing the professional development of nonprofit professionals of color as agents of change -- transfer grant

• $90,571

  Community Organizing and Fam Issues · Chicago, IL · 2023

  79989 training up to 50 low-income parents of color across illinois in 'the cofi way,' supporting those parents as powerful systems-change agents

• $89,900

  Managed Access To Child Hlt Partnership · Jacksonville, FL · 2023

  78451 amplifying the voice and power of communities of color to prevent youths' disproportionate involvement in the justice system in jacksonville, florida

• $89,900

  West Marion Comm Forum · Marion, NC · 2023

  78450 partnering communities of color and hospital leaders in marion, nc, to advance culturally informed mental/behavioral health policies and practices

• $71,068

  California U of Davis · Davis, CA · 2023

  80812 developing a land-justice framework and constructing policy scenarios to increase equitable land access for farmers of color in rural california

• $48,000

  National Womens Law Ctr · Washington, DC · 2023

  79517 supporting the national women's law center in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion, 2022-2023

• $48,000

  Justice for Migrant Women · Fremont, OH · 2023

  79489 supporting justice for migrant women in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion, 2022-2023

• $48,000

  Institute for Womens Pol Rsh · Washington, DC · 2023

  79518 supporting the institute for women's policy research in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion, 2022-2023

• $48,000

  Powerswitch Action · Oakland, CA · 2023

  79519 supporting powerswitch action in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion, 2022-2023

• $48,000

  Economic Pol Inst · Washington, DC · 2023

  79522 supporting the economic policy institute in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion, 2022-2023

• $40,000

  Viacom International · New York, NY · 2023

  79648 catalyzing the color of care campaign to build awareness and support to reduce racial health disparities caused by bias in healthcare delivery

• $37,449

  California U of San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  77671 studying covid-19's impact on pregnant women of color and their babies and embedding authentic, transparent community engagement in the research

• $36,049

  Pennsylvania U of Annenberg Sch for Comm · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

  78084 disrupting vaccination misinformation on popular social media venues to help increase flu and covid-19 vaccinations in communities of color

• $32,735

  Sisterhood for Equity Consulting · Woodland, CA · 2023

  79035 documenting inequities in access to early childhood education and child-care services faced by mothers of color enrolled in ca community colleges

• $27,250

  Inclusiv Dba Natl Fed · New York, NY · 2023

  78261 building the capacity of inclusiv to support credit unions serving communities of color

• $25,000

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Adv · New York, NY · 2023

  79296 supporting the executives' alliance in strengthening philanthropy to expand opportunities and wellness for boys and men of color -- bridge grant

• $20,000

  Rockefeller Fam Fund · New York, NY · 2023

  79209 expanding the work of the democracy and power innovation fund to build the power of communities of color to influence public policy decisions

• $10,000

  Grounded Solutions Network · Oakland, CA · 2023

  80456 supporting, elevating, and positioning leaders of color to influence narrative and systems change that advances racial equity in community development

• $1,570

  Saint Catherine U · Saint Paul, MN · 2023

  78161 examining the impact of the ban-the-box policy in minneapolis on erecting barriers for immigrants and people of color in their search for housing

• $1.9M

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022

  77575 advancing forward promise's efforts to address racial trauma among youths of color

• $1.0M

  Prevention Inst · Oakland, CA · 2022

  78667 supporting the people, parks, and power initiative for park and green-space equity for low-income communities of color

• $875,000

  Colorofchangeorg Educ Fund · Oakland, CA · 2022

  80304 general operating support for the color of change.org education fund inc.

• $800,000

  Civic Nation · Washington, DC · 2022

  79499 working to make covid-19 vaccines more accessible to communities of color and to build trust in vaccines among communities hardest hit by the pandemic

• $679,021

  Economic Pol Inst · Washington, DC · 2022

  79538 producing original research to disrupt structural racism's cycle of economic hardship impacting low-income children and families of color

• $674,719

  Cornell U · Ithaca, NY · 2022

  80452 building the evidence base and engaging the voice of lived experience to help promote food justice in communities of color

• $476,300

  Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2022

  80237 building a tax system that advances economic liberation for children and families of color

• $432,000

  Justice for Migrant Women · Fremont, OH · 2022

  79489 supporting justice for migrant women in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion

• $432,000

  Economic Pol Inst · Washington, DC · 2022

  79522 supporting the economic policy institute in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion

• $432,000

  National Womens Law Ctr · Washington, DC · 2022

  79517 supporting the national women's law center in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion

• $432,000

  Powerswitch Action · Oakland, CA · 2022

  79519 supporting powerswitch action in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion

• $432,000

  Institute for Womens Pol Rsh · Washington, DC · 2022

  79518 supporting the institute for women's policy research in advancing women of color's leadership and in fostering economic inclusion

• $361,760

  Viacom International · New York, NY · 2022

  79648 catalyzing the color of care campaign to build awareness and support to reduce racial health disparities caused by bias in healthcare delivery

• $324,441

  Pennsylvania U of Annenberg Sch for Comm · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

  78084 disrupting vaccination misinformation on popular social media venues to help increase flu and covid-19 vaccinations in communities of color

• $305,000

  Grounded Solutions Network · Oakland, CA · 2022

  80456 supporting, elevating, and positioning leaders of color to influence narrative and systems change that advances racial equity in community development

• $254,000

  League of Conservation Voters Education · Washington, DC · 2022

  79584 leveraging a transportation funding plan in maricopa county, az, to reduce the heat island effect and fund urban greenways in communities of color

• $245,250

  Inclusiv Inc Dba National Federation · New York, NY · 2022

  78261 building the capacity of inclusiv to support credit unions serving communities of color

• $223,425

  Proinspire · Arlington, VA · 2022

  80321 exploring the social-sector conditions that people of color leaders need to thrive at individual, organizational, and community levels

• $200,800

  Community Organizing and Fam Issues · Chicago, IL · 2022

  78343 elevating the voices of low-income parents of color to advance policies for early childhood development responsive to their experiences

• $170,000

  Amalgamated Charitable Fdn · Washington, DC · 2022

  78208 supporting the neighborhood funders group's amplify fund in supporting communities of color's power-building efforts for equitable housing development

• $123,650

  Disability Pol Consort · Malden, MA · 2022

  79546 examining racial barriers to independent living for black, indigenous, and people of color with disabilities in the greater springfield, mass., area

• $123,371

  Smart Home Am · Mobile, AL · 2022

  80140 furthering resiliency awareness in alabama and reducing climate-change health and financial stressors in low-income communities/communities of color

• $120,000

  Institute On Taxation and Economic Pol · Washington, DC · 2022

  77661 refining federal and state tax code modeling to better disaggregate tax proposals by race and ethnicity to help move people of color out of poverty

• $116,667

  Brandeis U · Waltham, MA · 2022

  79624 examining disabled people of color's experience with structural racism/ableism barriers in accessing medicaid home and community-based services

• $112,500

  Transgender Advocates for Justice and Ac · San Leandro, CA · 2022

  79695 interdisciplinary research leaders: violence at the intersection of structural racism and transphobia and valuing the lives of trans women of color

• $107,429

  Community Organizing and Fam Issues · Chicago, IL · 2022

  79989 training up to 50 low-income parents of color across illinois in 'the cofi way,' supporting those parents as powerful systems-change agents

• $105,000

  Stanley Ray Vance - California U of · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  77151 examining mental health outcomes and gender affirmation for transgender youths of color -- stanley ray vance jr., md

• $100,000

  Managed Access To Child Health Inc Db · Jacksonville, FL · 2022

  78451 amplifying the voice and power of communities of color to prevent youths' disproportionate involvement in the justice system in jacksonville, florida

• $100,000

  West Marion Community Forum · Marion, NC · 2022

  78450 partnering communities of color and hospital leaders in marion, nc, to advance culturally informed mental/behavioral health policies and practices

• $91,077

  Miami U of Miller Sch of Med · Miami, FL · 2022

  78159 evaluating how florida's moratorium on evictions during covid-19 contributes to housing stability for urban, low-income communities of color

• $85,500

  Sisterhood for Equity Consulting Llc · Woodland, CA · 2022

  79035 documenting inequities in access to early childhood education and child-care services faced by mothers of color enrolled in ca community colleges

• $75,000

  Dnps of Color · Baltimore, MD · 2022

  80444 supporting the dnps of color 2nd annual hybrid conference

• $50,000

  American Dent Educ Assn · Washington, DC · 2022

  79534 supporting the american dental education association's 2022 president's symposium on men of color in the health professions

• $50,000

  Naacp Empowerment Progs · Baltimore, MD · 2022

  76007 providing general operating support for the national association for the advancement of colored people

• $40,000

  Sweet Water Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2022

  78387 documenting the success of regenerative neighborhood development in creating more-equitable access to parks and green spaces for communities of color

• $30,000

  Children First Pa · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

  79277 planning a children first pa summit to explore needed policy wins to dramatically increase opportunity for low-income children and children of color

• $25,000

  Partners for a Hlt Comm · Springfield, MA · 2022

  74924 studying the health and health equity impacts of complete-streets policy on communities of color in midsize cities with large health inequities

• $18,931

  New Jersey Cit Action Educ Fund · Highland Park, NJ · 2022

  77693 partnering to increase access by low-income workers and people of color to new jersey's paid leave benefits and to improve the program

• $18,500

  Aspen Inst · Washington, DC · 2022

  78398 surveying obstacles people of color face in financing and operating food businesses to help streamline credit access and training programs

• $14,132

  Saint Catherine U · Saint Paul, MN · 2022

  78161 examining the impact of the ban-the-box policy in minneapolis on erecting barriers for immigrants and people of color in their search for housing

• $12,500

  Trust for Am Hlt · Washington, DC · 2022

  78133 developing recommendations to address barriers to acceptance of a safe and effective covid-19 vaccine in communities of color

• $10,000

  Women of Color in Comm Devel · Washington, DC · 2022

  79872 general operating support for women of color in community development

• $4,500

  Birth Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2022

  77923 creating a learning partnership with birth detroit to inform programs that center the needs of communities of color and build community power

• $3,000

  Historic Jamestown Colored School Museum · Geneva, FL · 2022

  Matching gift

• $30,000

  Colorofchangeorg Educ Fund · Oakland, CA · 2020

  77140 General operating support for Color of Chang

• $1,000

  Historic Jamestown Colored School Museum · Geneva, FL · 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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