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.

31 grants matching “disruption” · $11.7M

• $864,959

  Aarp Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

  79608 disrupting structural barriers to health equity by tapping the full potential of a diverse nursing workforce to increase access to care

• $600,000

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  82545 promoting racial justice narratives as a strategy for disrupting systemic harms

• $549,273

  University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024

  82539 understanding how governmental public health can disrupt structural racism and ultimately contribute to health equity and justice

• $493,548

  Transgender Law Center · Oakland, CA · 2024

  81509 vcfc narrative grant to the transgender law center: disrupting challenges to caregiving and to access to care for trans youths

• $487,500

  Equal Justice Initiative · Montgomery, AL · 2024

  82532 disrupting mindsets of deservingness and advancing narrative change that promotes agency and a collective vision for children and families

• $456,000

  Illuminative · Lafayette, CO · 2024

  82053 advancing representation and accurate narratives of native peoples in the media and entertainment ecosystems to disrupt invisibility and build power

• $375,000

  Action Center On Race and the Economy Institute · Chicago, IL · 2024

  82008 supporting the acre institute in its work to disrupt the u.s. Tax system to redistribute wealth to strengthen black, brown, and working-class families

• $268,754

  Massachusetts Health Quality Partners · Brighton, MA · 2024

  81528 examining social risk factors and creating risk-adjustment models to disrupt racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare and advance health equity

• $180,047

  Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Winston Salem, NC · 2024

  81917 understanding the dimensions and consequences of, and potential solutions for, disruptions in patient care caused by financialization in healthcare

• $150,000

  Narrative Nation · Bay Shore, NY · 2024

  82028 catalyzing systemic change to disrupt racism and bias in health systems and transforming the narrative of the black and brown birthing experience

• $125,000

  Impact Alpha · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  81084 using digital and news media to increase understanding of how municipal bond investments can disrupt systemic racial inequities

• $124,300

  World Health Organization · 2024

  81971 disrupting research and learning for health equity by convening research-policy-implementation sectors to rethink knowledge production and usage

• $70,042

  Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024

  80478 filling the role of rwjf strategic advisor to help advance social/human services, improve health outcomes, and disrupt structural racism in healthcare

• $65,805

  Rutgers the State University of New Jersey Institute for the Study of Glob · New Brunswick, NJ · 2024

  79292 centering humanistic and social scientific fields to identify strategies needed to disrupt structural racism as a determinant of health and well-being

• $18,854

  Mirror Group Llc · Washington, DC · 2024

  79388 conducting a bundled evaluation of initiatives to disrupt barriers to health equity research

• $1.4M

  Aarp Fdn · Washington, DC · 2023

  79608 disrupting structural barriers to health equity by tapping the full potential of a diverse nursing workforce to increase access to care

• $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

• $187,323

  Mirror Group · Washington, DC · 2023

  79388 conducting a bundled evaluation of initiatives to disrupt barriers to health equity research

• $125,000

  Impact Alpha · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  81084 using digital and news media to increase understanding of how municipal bond investments can disrupt systemic racial inequities

• $125,000

  Impact Alpha · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  79751 generating a greater understanding of how investors, issuers, and communities can leverage municipal bond markets to disrupt systemic inequities

• $90,000

  Zero To Three · Washington, DC · 2023

  79710 supporting the expertise of those with lived experience to disrupt systemic racism in policies and advocacy aimed at serving children and families

• $50,000

  Wested · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  79294 disrupting the impact of structural racism in the criminal justice system

• $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

• $1.4M

  Aarp Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

  79608 disrupting structural barriers to health equity by tapping the full potential of a diverse nursing workforce to increase access to care

• $810,000

  Zero To Three · Washington, DC · 2022

  79710 supporting the expertise of those with lived experience to disrupt systemic racism in policies and advocacy aimed at serving children and families

• $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

• $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

• $190,792

  Mirror Group · Washington, DC · 2022

  79388 conducting a bundled evaluation of initiatives to disrupt barriers to health equity research

• $125,000

  Impactalpha · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  79751 generating a greater understanding of how investors, issuers, and communities can leverage municipal bond markets to disrupt systemic inequities

• $82,155

  Northeastern U · Boston, MA · 2022

  80478 filling the role of rwjf strategic advisor to help advance social/human services, improve health outcomes, and disrupt structural racism in healthcare

• $563,794

  Pennsylvania U of Annenberg Sch for Comm · Philadelphia, PA · 2020

  78084 Disrupting vaccination misinformation on pop

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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