Funding search · EIN 226029397 · Princeton, NJ

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

13,555
grants reported
$2.27B
total given
2020–2024
filing years
$29,091
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20202024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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.

Where the money goes

  • State and federal health policy advocacy, Medicaid and coverage defense
  • Racial equity and structural racism work across health, housing, economy
  • Health data infrastructure, dashboards, county rankings, disaggregated data
  • Research and leadership programs run through university national program centers
  • Family economic policy: childcare, paid leave, progressive tax, food security
  • New Jersey health equity, food security, and local institutions

Typical grant

Median grant is about $29,000, but the money is barely there: half of all grants sit between $1,250 and $150,000 while the top of the range runs $1M to $12M. The large checks go to national coordinating offices, university program centers, and multiyear general operating support for policy advocacy groups. Repeat giving is the norm, with organizations like Community Catalyst, PolicyLink, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Third Sector New England appearing multiple times in a single year.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

  • health equity
  • structural racism
  • narrative change
  • general operating support
  • technical assistance and direction
  • communities most impacted

Positioning adjacent work

  • Frame research as building the field, not producing a paper. Name the policy audience and the systems change sought.
  • Connect to an existing named program (Evidence for Action, Policies for Action, Systems for Action) rather than proposing a standalone study.
  • For a first university-based project, ask $1M to $3M over two to three years; that is their standard research center size.
  • Center community leadership and lived experience in the design, and say who holds decision-making power in the project.

Worth knowing: Giving is heavily concentrated in DC policy shops, New Jersey (their home state, with dedicated initiatives), and a small set of intermediaries like New Venture Fund, Third Sector New England, and Borealis that regrant on their behalf. The 2020-2024 record shows an unmistakable turn toward explicitly antiracist framing and movement infrastructure, so adjacent work that reads as neutral clinical research will not land.

139 grants matching “inequalities · $58.5M

  • $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

  • $1.7M

    Community Foundation of New Jersey · Morristown, NJ · 2024

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

  • $1.5M

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

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

  • $1.3M

    New Growth Innovation Network · Chicago, IL · 2024

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

  • $1.2M

    Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

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

  • $1.1M

    Center for Story Based Strategy · Oakland, CA · 2024

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

  • $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

  • $613,865

    Acenda · Glassboro, NJ · 2024

    79911 incubating the new jersey public health institute to be operationally nimble and address widespread health inequities in the state

  • $514,062

    Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

    82269 assisting local nonprofit organizations in using data to surface and address structural inequities in community conditions

  • $500,000

    Caring Across Generations · New York, NY · 2024

    81736 narrative grant to caring across generations: transforming societal perspectives on caregiving to address historical and structural inequities

  • $491,391

    Dashporter · Chicago, IL · 2024

    81472 examining the impact of a personalized municipal discount related to an individual's ability to pay on unintended racial inequities in utility bills

  • $474,570

    Seiu Education and Support Fund · Northampton, MA · 2024

    80958 supporting the educator-led communities of care project in addressing racial, gender, and economic inequities in the family childcare sector

  • $425,748

    Lemonada Media · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

    80755 partnering with lemonada media to co-create a podcast series discussing health, health inequity, and the systems that impact a culture of health

  • $381,127

    Grantmakers in Health · Washington, DC · 2024

    82191 launching a community of practice of leaders in rural philanthropy to improve equitable development and to reduce racial inequities in rural places

  • $380,156

    Children'S Hospital Corporation Dba Boston Children'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024

    81890 extending and expanding a database of structural racism laws to capture their impact on health inequities and advance social change and racial justice

  • $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

  • $329,626

    Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024

    80949 creating model systems of cultural objects for the study of social inequalities

  • $270,081

    National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Foundation · Vienna, VA · 2024

    82026 educating federal policymakers/lawmakers on the impact of medicaid estate recovery on racial and health inequities

  • $270,000

    Institute for the Advancement of Minority Health · Ridgeland, MS · 2024

    81719 using community-based participatory approaches to reduce tobacco inequities among african american men in the mississippi delta region, 2024

  • $270,000

    People'S Action Institute · Chicago, IL · 2024

    81918 exposing racial inequities in the private health insurance system and testing messages on the value of public financing and government accountability

  • $242,524

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024

    80639 examining whether collateral consequence policies harm health and exacerbate racial health inequities for persons convicted of criminal offenses

  • $241,762

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

    80229 evaluating the effectiveness and sustainability of the pop-up village model addressing inequities in perinatal care

  • $225,000

    Black Appalachian Coalition · Toledo, OH · 2024

    82202 investing in healing to address historical traumas and systemic inequities impacting the economic and social wellbeing of black families in appalachia

  • $225,000

    Physicians for a National Health Program · Chicago, IL · 2024

    81915 exploring the rise of financialization in healthcare, the worsening systemic inequities, and the growing problem of moral injury among physicians

  • $217,245

    Boys and Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico · San Juan, PR · 2024

    79506 supporting the data needed to assess the impact of policy changes on child poverty and in reducing historical inequities in puerto rico

  • $200,416

    Research Foundation for State University of New York On Behalf of Universit · Buffalo, NY · 2024

    82311 preparing guidelines for data dashboards accountable to those most impacted by structural inequities in the food system

  • $197,190

    Duke University · Durham, NC · 2024

    80436 evaluating a first-responder model implemented in durham, n.c., to reduce mental health inequities -- transfer grant

  • $190,432

    Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2024

    80299 reimagining the tax system to improve economic security and health outcomes for children and families and to reduce racial and ethnic inequities

  • $186,770

    Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL · 2024

    79308 leveraging disparate datasets to close gaps in the current approach to caring for populations at high risk due to health inequity

  • $167,950

    Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services · Seattle, WA · 2024

    80233 guiding a storytelling project to confront the erasure and invisibility that contribute to the health inequities and disparities of indigenous peoples

  • $140,400

    Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024

    81483 supporting resilia in providing capacity-building support for n.j. Nonprofits and grassroots organizations to address systemic inequities, 2024

  • $133,333

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024

    79839 supporting healthy and free tennessee in advancing transformative justice to address systemic racism, mass incarceration, and health inequities

  • $132,531

    Yanica F Faustin - Elon U Col of Ar · Elon, NC · 2024

    81527 investigating maternal health inequities by nativity to address severe maternal morbidity inequities for black birthing persons across the diaspora

  • $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

  • $123,516

    Pride Center San Antonio · San Antonio, TX · 2024

    79554 examining the underuse of healthcare by lgbtq+ people in south texas to help rectify healthcare system inequities

  • $117,410

    Appalachian State University · Boone, NC · 2024

    80809 exploring the impact of guaranteed income on asset development and credit-building, essential tools in combating racial wealth inequality

  • $110,000

    Parent Voices Oakland · Oakland, CA · 2024

    79994 building power to advance the goals of oakland, ca, community leaders impacted by inequity to lead campaigns for economic and educational justice

  • $100,000

    Center for Community Change · Washington, DC · 2024

    81613 supporting the maven collaborative in working to fully dismantle racial and gender inequality in the economy

  • $98,660

    Oklahoma State University · Stillwater, OK · 2024

    79555 examining the totality of the reproductive experience across the gender continuum to address reproductive health inequity in tulsa, okla.

  • $87,500

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

    79405 building the capacity of community-based organizations in the south and midwest to address commercial-tobacco-related racial and economic inequities

  • $49,915

    Boston Medical Center Corporation · Boston, MA · 2024

    79757 shifting leadership paradigms to strengthen community partnerships to dismantle systems of oppression that perpetuate racial and social inequities

  • $45,000

    Caucus Educational Corporation · Montclair, NJ · 2024

    79805 supporting the caucus educational corporation in educating and informing the n.j. Public and policymakers about racial inequities in health, 2022-2025

  • $42,437

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

    80866 supporting building capacity to reduce tobacco inequities in the south and midwest to better promote health equity in tobacco control, transfer grant

  • $40,920

    Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy · Durham, NC · 2024

    79190 launching a food justice think tank of community organizers and researchers to address food system inequities

  • $30,000

    Catchafire · New York, NY · 2024

    79500 continuing catchafire's support in providing access to resources for nj nonprofits and launching the new jersey equity fund to address inequality

  • $28,260

    Pan American Health Organization · Washington, DC · 2024

    78138 launching phase 1 in creation of a health equity status report for the americas and of mechanisms for monitoring health inequalities

  • $25,000

    Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    79161 linking health inequities for indigenous americans to colonial subjugation to shift scholarly attention to overcoming legacies of structural racism

  • $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

  • $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

  • $18,820

    New York Academy of Medicine · New York, NY · 2024

    78986 examining policies and programs that perpetuate inequities related to basic needs of low-income latinx immigrant families in new york city

  • $10,100

    Cancer Patients Alliance · Pacific Grove, CA · 2024

    78448 bringing together patients and health care providers for critical policy solutions to racial inequity in cancer care in the salinas valley, california

  • $10,000

    Coeur D'Alene Tribe · Plummer, ID · 2024

    80580 eliminating systemic health disparities and inequities and improving access to and use of care for coeur d'alene tribal youths

  • $5,000

    National Public Education Support Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    80723 supporting grantmakers for thriving youth to engage grantmakers in learning and action to eliminate structural inequities and support youths to thrive

  • $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

  • $1.7M

    National Acad of Scis · Washington, DC · 2023

    81409 supporting a collaborative framework in the gulf south to advance community-based programs to redress climate, disaster, health, and social inequities

  • $972,710

    Seiu Educ & Supp Fund · Hadley, MA · 2023

    80958 supporting the educator-led communities of care project in addressing racial, gender, and economic inequities in the family childcare sector

  • $900,000

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

    81030 identifying corporate structures and policies that reinforce inequities in health and wellbeing for black and brown children and families

  • $787,500

    Center for Black Hlt & Equity · Durham, NC · 2023

    79405 building the capacity of community-based organizations in the south and midwest to address commercial-tobacco-related racial and economic inequities

  • $783,000

    Institute for the Advancement of Minorit · Ridgeland, MS · 2023

    80675 using community-based participatory approaches to reduce tobacco inequities among african american men in the mississippi delta region, 2023-2024

  • $681,465

    Technical Assistance Collab · Boston, MA · 2023

    80153 building practice-based organizations' capacity to develop systems-alignment research strategies that address racial, social, and health inequities

  • $414,675

    Catalyst Rsh & Educ Fund · Charlottesville, VA · 2023

    81312 supporting the development of strategies to address key food system inequities

  • $392,000

    Louisiana Pub Hlt Inst · New Orleans, LA · 2023

    79786 addressing systemic inequities to reduce tobacco use among african-americans in socioeconomically disadvantaged rural louisiana communities, 2022-2024

  • $382,798

    Center for Black Hlt & Equity · Durham, NC · 2023

    80866 supporting building capacity to reduce tobacco inequities in the south and midwest to better promote health equity in tobacco control, transfer grant

  • $368,300

    Duke U Sanford Sch of Pub Pol · Durham, NC · 2023

    79190 launching a food justice think tank of community organizers and researchers to address food system inequities

  • $341,074

    North Carolina U of Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023

    80669 optimizing health communications to foster in-person social interaction and health equity amid rising economic inequality

  • $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

  • $325,410

    Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico · San Juan, PR · 2023

    79506 supporting the data needed to assess the impact of policy changes on child poverty and in reducing historical inequities in puerto rico

  • $300,000

    Catchafire · New York, NY · 2023

    79500 continuing catchafire's support in providing access to resources for nj nonprofits and launching the new jersey equity fund to address inequality

  • $254,342

    Pan Am Hlt Org · Washington, DC · 2023

    78138 launching phase 1 in creation of a health equity status report for the americas and of mechanisms for monitoring health inequalities

  • $228,600

    Austin Interfaith Sponsoring Committee · Austin, TX · 2023

    79590 addressing inequities in the built environment and securing investments in parks and green spaces in east and south austin, texas

  • $225,001

    New Museum of Contemporary Art · New York, NY · 2023

    80917 supporting new inc to address inequities in working conditions for artists and cultural workers

  • $214,276

    Cornell U · Ithaca, NY · 2023

    80639 examining whether collateral consequence policies harm health and exacerbate racial health inequities for persons convicted of criminal offenses

  • $193,898

    Yale U · New Haven, CT · 2023

    80949 creating model systems of cultural objects for the study of social inequalities

  • $184,788

    Appalachian St U · Boone, NC · 2023

    80809 exploring the impact of guaranteed income on asset development and credit-building, essential tools in combating racial wealth inequality

  • $176,495

    Duke U · Durham, NC · 2023

    80436 evaluating a first-responder model implemented in durham, n.c., to reduce mental health inequities -- transfer grant

  • $174,276

    Lemonada Media · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

    80755 partnering with lemonada media to co-create a podcast series discussing health, health inequity, and the systems that impact a culture of health

  • $166,667

    Hummingbird Indigenous Fam Svcs · Seattle, WA · 2023

    80233 guiding a storytelling project to confront the erasure and invisibility that contribute to the health inequities and disparities of indigenous peoples

  • $150,000

    Project Hope People To People Hlt Fdn · Washington, DC · 2023

    79237 supporting health affairs in exploring the roots of inequity in publishing to guide the journal and other publications to a more equitable future

  • $150,000

    Equalhealth · Brookline, MA · 2023

    81131 building health workers' capacity to practice social medicine and combat systems of oppression to expand efforts to address global health inequities

  • $148,233

    Yale U · New Haven, CT · 2023

    78379 developing an evidence-driven approach that addresses how institutions perpetuate inequity in hidden and systematic ways

  • $141,095

    Oklahoma St U · Stillwater, OK · 2023

    79555 examining the totality of the reproductive experience across the gender continuum to address reproductive health inequity in tulsa, okla.

  • $127,068

    Pride Center San Antonio · San Antonio, TX · 2023

    79554 examining the underuse of healthcare by lgbtq+ people in south texas to help rectify healthcare system inequities

  • $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

  • $117,472

    Kristin Zene Black - East Carolina · Greenville, NC · 2023

    79252 identifying and eliminating structural inequities in women's health and chronic disease outcomes

  • $112,500

    Down North Fdn · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

    80860 interdisciplinary research leaders: addressing intersecting health inequities in north philadelphia through community gardening

  • $108,170

    Jose G Perez-Ramos - Rochester U of · Rochester, NY · 2023

    79251 examining the impact of an innovative model in reducing health inequities related to chronic disease management for isolated puerto rican communities

  • $90,000

    Tides Ctr · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    81297 supporting the bay area regional health inequities initiative in evaluating an antiracist framework for community development

  • $90,000

    Coeur Dalene Tribe · Plummer, ID · 2023

    80580 eliminating systemic health disparities and inequities and improving access to and use of care for coeur d'alene tribal youths

  • $89,900

    Cancer Patients Allian · Pacific Grove, CA · 2023

    78448 bringing together patients and health care providers for critical policy solutions to racial inequity in cancer care in the salinas valley, california

  • $88,000

    Institute for the Advancement of Minorit · Ridgeland, MS · 2023

    79543 using community-based participatory approaches to reduce tobacco inequities among african american men in the mississippi delta region, 2022-2023

  • $50,000

    Caucus Educ Corp · Montclair, NJ · 2023

    79805 supporting the caucus educational corporation in educating and informing the n.j. Public and policymakers about racial inequities in health, 2022-2025

  • $45,000

    National Pub Edu Sup Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

    80723 supporting grantmakers for thriving youth to engage grantmakers in learning and action to eliminate structural inequities and support youths to thrive

  • $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

  • $29,997

    University Hosp Cleveland Med Ctr · Cleveland, OH · 2023

    78231 studying whether a novel model that adjusts care to meet behavioral and social needs reduces inequities in value in a vulnerable medicaid population

  • $19,639

    Minnesota U of · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

    79238 advancing the knowledge on measuring structural racism to strengthen efforts to eliminate racial health inequities

  • $12,671

    Dubois Inst for Entrepreneurship · Dothan, AL · 2023

    78385 supporting building capacity to reduce tobacco inequities in the south and midwest to better promote health equity in tobacco control, 2021-2022

  • $11,000

    Salvation & Soc Justice · Trenton, NJ · 2023

    79485 heightening public awareness of public school segregation in new jersey and the consequent inequities

  • $8,500

    American Pub Hlt Assn · Washington, DC · 2023

    79006 supporting an american journal of public health supplement on how structural racism, institutional racism and discrimination produce health inequities

  • $8,438

    Presbyterian Hltcare Svcs · Albuquerque, NM · 2023

    77276 supporting the n.m. Culture of health initiative to strengthen community engagement to address social, economic, racial, ethnic, and health inequities

  • $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

  • $1.3M

    New Growth Innovation Network · Chicago, IL · 2022

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

  • $875,000

    Center for Black Hlt & Equity · Durham, NC · 2022

    79405 building the capacity of community-based organizations in the south and midwest to address commercial-tobacco-related racial and economic inequities

  • $792,000

    Institute for the Advancement of Minorit · Ridgeland, MS · 2022

    79543 using community-based participatory approaches to reduce tobacco inequities among african american men in the mississippi delta region, 2022-2023

  • $742,385

    Technical Assistance Collab · Boston, MA · 2022

    80153 building practice-based organizations' capacity to develop systems-alignment research strategies that address racial, social, and health inequities

  • $450,000

    Boston Med Ctr Corp · Boston, MA · 2022

    79757 shifting leadership paradigms to strengthen community partnerships to dismantle systems of oppression that perpetuate racial and social inequities

  • $449,532

    Louisiana Pub Hlt Inst · New Orleans, LA · 2022

    77202 addressing systemic inequities to reduce tobacco use among african-americans in rural socioeconomically disadvantaged louisiana communities, 2020-2022

  • $420,000

    Catchafire · New York, NY · 2022

    79500 continuing catchafire's support in providing access to resources for nj nonprofits and launching the new jersey equity fund to address inequality

  • $400,000

    Louisiana Pub Hlt Inst · New Orleans, LA · 2022

    79786 addressing systemic inequities to reduce tobacco use among african-americans in socioeconomically disadvantaged rural louisiana communities, 2022-2024

  • $321,756

    Dubois Inst for Entrepreneurship · Dothan, AL · 2022

    79852 supporting building capacity to reduce tobacco inequities in the south and midwest to better promote health equity in tobacco control, 2022-2024

  • $317,928

    Acenda · Glassboro, NJ · 2022

    79911 incubating the new jersey public health institute to be operationally nimble and address widespread health inequities in the state

  • $254,000

    Austin Interfaith Sponsoring Committee · Austin, TX · 2022

    79590 addressing inequities in the built environment and securing investments in parks and green spaces in east and south austin, texas

  • $240,570

    Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico · San Juan, PR · 2022

    79506 supporting the data needed to assess the impact of policy changes on child poverty and in reducing historical inequities in puerto rico

  • $224,404

    Dubois Inst for Entrepreneurship · Dothan, AL · 2022

    78385 supporting building capacity to reduce tobacco inequities in the south and midwest to better promote health equity in tobacco control, 2021-2022

  • $197,045

    Georgetown U · Washington, DC · 2022

    80299 reimagining the tax system to improve economic security and health outcomes for children and families and to reduce racial and ethnic inequities

  • $193,753

    Presbyterian Hltcare Svcs · Albuquerque, NM · 2022

    77276 supporting the n.m. Culture of health initiative to strengthen community engagement to address social, economic, racial, ethnic, and health inequities

  • $177,450

    California U of San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    80229 evaluating the effectiveness and sustainability of the pop-up village model addressing inequities in perinatal care

  • $133,333

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2022

    79839 supporting healthy and free tennessee in advancing transformative justice to address systemic racism, mass incarceration, and health inequities

  • $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

  • $116,667

    Grantmakers in Hlt · Washington, DC · 2022

    80503 creating a national network of foundations seeking to restore trust in public health information, ultimately to reduce inequities in health

  • $116,235

    Jackson Med Mall Fdn · Jackson, MS · 2022

    77391 using community-based participatory approaches to reduce tobacco inequities among african-american men in the mississippi delta region, 2020-22

  • $116,213

    Yale U · New Haven, CT · 2022

    78379 developing an evidence-driven approach that addresses how institutions perpetuate inequity in hidden and systematic ways

  • $113,443

    Columbia U Mailman Sch of Pub Hlt · New York, NY · 2022

    78975 exploring racial disparities in home energy services to shed new light on persistent housing inequity

  • $110,000

    Parent Voices Oakland · Oakland, CA · 2022

    79994 building power to advance the goals of oakland, ca, community leaders impacted by inequity to lead campaigns for economic and educational justice

  • $108,976

    Pride Center San Antonio · San Antonio, TX · 2022

    79554 examining the underuse of healthcare by lgbtq+ people in south texas to help rectify healthcare system inequities

  • $100,000

    Cancer Patients Alliance · Pacific Grove, CA · 2022

    78448 bringing together patients and health care providers for critical policy solutions to racial inequity in cancer care in the salinas valley, california

  • $99,000

    Salvation and Social Justice · Trenton, NJ · 2022

    79485 heightening public awareness of public school segregation in new jersey and the consequent inequities

  • $97,376

    Oklahoma St U · Stillwater, OK · 2022

    79555 examining the totality of the reproductive experience across the gender continuum to address reproductive health inequity in tulsa, okla.

  • $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

    Communities Unlimited · Fayetteville, AR · 2022

    76755 interdisciplinary research leaders cohort four -- 2019: investing in water systems to reduce health and economic inequalities in the rural south

  • $66,852

    North Carolina St U · Raleigh, NC · 2022

    77306 exploring whether changing the retail environment through 'bundling' can reduce health inequities in the wic nutrition program for women and children

  • $64,221

    Connecticut U of Rudd Ctr for Food Pol & · Hartford, CT · 2022

    77232 understanding the lost opportunity of the child and adult care food program in improving child nutrition and reducing health inequities

  • $50,000

    Caucus Educ Corp · Montclair, NJ · 2022

    79805 supporting the caucus educational corporation in educating and informing the n.j. Public and policymakers about racial inequities in health, 2022-2025

  • $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

  • $18,183

    Illinois U of at Urbana Champaign · Urbana, IL · 2022

    77310 developing and evaluating evidence-supported policy proposals for updating the child and adult care food program to address geographic inequities

  • $10,000

    Caucus Educ Corp · Montclair, NJ · 2022

    77716 supporting the caucus educational corporation in educating and informing the public and policymakers in new jersey about racial inequities in health

  • $7,000

    American Acad of Nurs · Washington, DC · 2022

    77614 honoring the sacrifices and contributions nurses have made to save lives, reduce inequities, and protect communities during the covid-19 pandemic

  • $520,655

    Louisiana Pub Hlt Inst · New Orleans, LA · 2020

    77202 Addressing systemic inequities to reduce tob

  • $261,713

    Drexel U · Philadelphia, PA · 2020

    77644 Tracking outcomes and inequalities of the CO

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

$531.4M
2020
$569.4M
2022
$543.6M
2023
$621.9M
2024

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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