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.

131 grants matching “narrative · $73.2M

  • $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

  • $1.5M

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024

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

  • $1.5M

    American Cancer Society · Kennesaw, GA · 2024

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

  • $1.3M

    Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

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

  • $1.1M

    Opportunity Agenda · New York, NY · 2024

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

  • $1.1M

    Center for Story Based Strategy · Oakland, CA · 2024

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

  • $1.0M

    University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    80259 helping city practitioners use data and narrative to promote equitable development in small and midsize cities

  • $1.0M

    Illuminative · Lafayette, CO · 2024

    82078 connecting the public to authentic native narratives through native-led content makers and creatives to build a more equitable media landscape

  • $1.0M

    Array Alliance · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    80088 advancing social justice through array alliance's inclusive filmmaking, education, and outreach that drive narrative change

  • $957,885

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    81589 contributing to a mindset consortium that addresses structural racism and advances health equity -- narrative initiative

  • $666,600

    University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024

    80984 change stories: learning from narratives of equitable and sustainable urban transformation (stage 2)

  • $600,000

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

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

  • $535,278

    Drive Agency Llc · Hubertus, WI · 2024

    81927 developing the collaborative narrative-change work needed to rally society to transform the conditions that work against children's health and success

  • $500,056

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

    81506 vcfc narrative grant to family values @ work: launching the culture strategy fellows program to curate culture-change work that elevates caregiving

  • $500,000

    Array Alliance · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    82045 supporting array alliance's multiplatform media collective including learning guides to achieve narrative and systems change

  • $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

  • $500,000

    Forward Together · Oakland, CA · 2024

    81511 vcfc narrative grant to forward together: piloting the trans youth project to shift culture and foster a liberatory trans youth movement

  • $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

  • $476,822

    Alianza Americas · Chicago, IL · 2024

    81508 vcfc narrative grant to alianza americas: expanding the network's narrative-change capacity toward an equitable way of life for migrant communities

  • $475,000

    Gold House Foundation · Covina, CA · 2024

    82037 promoting narrative change toward more authentic portrayals of asians and pacific islanders

  • $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

  • $450,000

    Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2024

    80376 countering harmful and hostile narratives and advancing recognition and the dignity of transgender and gender non-conforming children and families

  • $431,660

    Frameworks Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

    81721 developing a narrative for spatial justice to deepen understanding of how racism is built into place

  • $380,341

    Equimundo Center for Masculinities and Social Justice · Washington, DC · 2024

    81510 building equimundo's narrative-change work to uplift the deservingness of male caregivers and promote policies necessary to support men's caregiving

  • $375,000

    Engage Rd · Pasadena, CA · 2024

    81889 continuing the equitable developmental evaluation of narrative-change strategies that amplify the inherent worth, dignity, and value of caregivers

  • $353,288

    Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024

    82671 exploring learnings on the process and sensemaking of power, collaboration, and narrative change in the reimagining childcare ecosystem

  • $350,000

    Center On Rural Innovation · Hartland, VT · 2024

    82055 redefining the narrative on rural investment strategies to cultivate equity and inclusion in funding for places facing the deepest disadvantages

  • $300,000

    Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2024

    81669 continuing to design, amplify, popularize, and advance a racial justice housing narrative to recognize housing as a fundamental human necessity

  • $292,500

    State Power Fund · Kent, OH · 2024

    79978 using messaging research on critical issues to advance clear, cohesive local and national narratives that promote equitable and just communities

  • $250,000

    Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    82529 supporting a storytelling campaign in california that centers human dignity by replacing false narratives on poverty with authentic content

  • $225,000

    Climate Central · Princeton, NJ · 2024

    82638 supporting partnership journalism to help bolster narratives that emphasize the links between climate change, health, and equity and their impacts

  • $200,000

    Asian Americans Advancing Justice Aajc · Washington, DC · 2024

    82531 advancing a comprehensive and culturally nuanced narrative about caregiving in asian american native hawaiian and pacific islander communities

  • $190,355

    Association of American Medical Colleges · Washington, DC · 2024

    82260 supporting a 'future leaders in health' initiative to bolster narrative and action showing that workforce diversity is valuable for everyone's health

  • $181,030

    Institute for Community Health · Malden, MA · 2024

    82436 examining the influence of dominant narratives on immigrant wellbeing and policy

  • $180,000

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    81688 supporting a planning grant to organize assets for a national narrative summit aiming to advance new racial and social justice narratives

  • $157,500

    Movement Strategy Center · Oakland, CA · 2024

    82620 supporting proximate press in driving narrative change to advance adoption of participatory investing models

  • $151,250

    Jolu Productions · New Orleans, LA · 2024

    81275 highlighting effective solutions to inequitable fines and fees and transforming narratives for populations historically victimized by inequitable laws

  • $150,193

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

    82127 amplifying narratives on the value of children, families, and multigenerational care in asian american and native hawaiian/pacific islander families

  • $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

  • $150,000

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

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

  • $135,000

    Be a Hero Education Fund · New York, NY · 2024

    81747 crafting compelling narratives on the threat posed by health insurance corporations' privatization of medicare through expansion of medicare advantage

  • $135,000

    Video Veracity · New Orleans, LA · 2024

    82603 providing underwriting support for the public television broadcast of the film "give light" to help scale narrative change on reproductive healthcare

  • $125,000

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    79144 using pop culture narrative-change strategies to ignite public imagination about a just, equitable, and pluralist future

  • $100,000

    Storycorps · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    82628 supporting the brightness in black initiative in promoting asset-framed narratives of joy, pride, resilience, and excellence about black americans

  • $95,000

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

    79328 transforming caregiving narratives into ideals honoring caregivers and the caregiving infrastructure as worthy of investment to help families thrive

  • $95,000

    National Immigration Law Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    79275 supporting advocacy, narrative strategies, and litigation to provide immigrants with the freedom to thrive in their new home country

  • $92,581

    Frameworks Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

    77042 building a new narrative to reshape the public's understanding of children and children's issues to support solutions to ensure their well-being

  • $90,000

    Asian Americans Advancing Justice Aajc · Washington, DC · 2024

    79264 uplifting narratives about the value of caregiving and family across myriad and diverse asian-american communities

  • $90,000

    Bme Community · Hollywood, FL · 2024

    81980 sponsoring the next narrative summit that aims to inspire and partner with fellow philanthropists to build more caring and prosperous futures

  • $90,000

    Alianza Americas · Chicago, IL · 2024

    79289 using narrative power-building strategies to amplify the true value of family structures and communities of care in latinx communities

  • $74,006

    Engage Rd · Pasadena, CA · 2024

    79372 distilling insights from rwjf's multipronged approach in shifting cultural narratives to promote the value and deservingness of adult caregivers

  • $61,359

    American University · Washington, DC · 2024

    82119 using comedy as a means of narrative change to promote social justice and civic power (2024-2026 programming)

  • $51,230

    National Domestic Workers Alliance · New York, NY · 2024

    79185 expanding caring across generations' narrative-change work to recognize the value of caregiving and family care as a communal responsibility

  • $50,000

    Fusion Partnerships · Baltimore, MD · 2024

    82611 developing narrative change skills for grassroots leaders to drive vital community investments for impacted families in the district of columbia area

  • $47,813

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    79285 supporting the narrative initiative in weaving narrative power with other social-movement strategies to achieve long-term equity and social justice

  • $47,500

    Gold House Foundation · Covina, CA · 2024

    80110 shifting the cultural narrative in the mainstream media on asians and pacific islanders to increase belonging and equity

  • $45,000

    Transgender Law Center · Oakland, CA · 2024

    79290 promoting asset-based narratives of trans 'chosen families' to help ensure an array of caregiving relationships for all families

  • $25,000

    Leadership Conference Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    80347 shifting narratives in the media to underscore and emphasize the need for the collection of race and ethnicity data to achieve equitable policy

  • $25,000

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    80341 advancing reproductive justice by spurring action using pop culture and new networks of narrative content creators and influencers

  • $11,564

    Harvard University T H Chan School of Public Health Fxb Center for Health · Boston, MA · 2024

    79968 building the public narrative on reparations as a means to closing the racial health equity gap

  • $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

  • $2.5M

    Array Allian · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

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

  • $1.7M

    Cornell U · Ithaca, NY · 2023

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

  • $1.6M

    American Cancer Soc · Kennesaw, GA · 2023

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

  • $1.0M

    Opportunity Agenda · New York, NY · 2023

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

  • $1.0M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Adv · New York, NY · 2023

    81225 using pop culture narrative change strategies to ignite public imagination about a just, equitable, and pluralist future

  • $861,239

    New York Fdn for the Arts · New York, NY · 2023

    81421 expanding the environmental narrative to elevate consciousness of structural racism and opportunities for change -- transfer grant

  • $855,000

    National Immigration Law Ctr · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    79275 supporting advocacy, narrative strategies, and litigation to provide immigrants with the freedom to thrive in their new home country

  • $781,070

    University of Wisconsin Population Healt · Madison, WI · 2023

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

  • $666,600

    Washington U of · Seattle, WA · 2023

    80984 change stories: learning from narratives of equitable and sustainable urban transformation (stage 2)

  • $461,070

    National Domestic Workers Allian · New York, NY · 2023

    79185 expanding caring across generations' narrative-change work to recognize the value of caregiving and family care as a communal responsibility

  • $452,678

    Michigan Pub Hlt Inst · Okemos, MI · 2023

    81235 exploring how community-driven narrative change-strategies can shift power to advance equitable health data ecosystems

  • $430,313

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

    79285 supporting the narrative initiative in weaving narrative power with other social-movement strategies to achieve long-term equity and social justice

  • $427,500

    Gold House Fdn · Covina, CA · 2023

    80110 shifting the cultural narrative in the mainstream media on asians and pacific islanders to increase belonging and equity

  • $405,000

    Transgender Law Ctr · Oakland, CA · 2023

    79290 promoting asset-based narratives of trans 'chosen families' to help ensure an array of caregiving relationships for all families

  • $364,496

    Unidosus · Washington, DC · 2023

    79274 changing the narrative about caregiving and caregivers in the latino community to improve material conditions for families

  • $325,000

    State Power Fund Dba We Make the Future · Youngstown, OH · 2023

    79978 using messaging research on critical issues to advance clear, cohesive local and national narratives that promote equitable and just communities

  • $237,500

    Center for Comm Change · Washington, DC · 2023

    81293 supporting the maven collaborative in uplifting care narratives that center black women and girls and their families

  • $200,000

    Narrative Nation · Bay Shore, NY · 2023

    79634 general operating support for narrative nation

  • $125,000

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Adv · New York, NY · 2023

    79144 using pop culture narrative-change strategies to ignite public imagination about a just, equitable, and pluralist future

  • $125,000

    Springboard To Opportunities · Jackson, MS · 2023

    78410 enabling black women caregivers to create a new narrative for themselves to address the twin pandemics of the coronavirus and long-standing racism

  • $125,000

    Springboard To Opportunities · Jackson, MS · 2023

    81210 supporting black women caregivers in reshaping harmful internalized narratives about worth, dignity, and what counts as labor

  • $75,000

    Kinetic Leaders · New York, NY · 2023

    80271 identifying gaps in and opportunities to improve existing narratives on access to healthy affordable food

  • $28,325

    American Cancer Soc · Kennesaw, GA · 2023

    80001 building on the american cancer society's narrative project to convey the benefits of healthcare coverage, particularly medicaid

  • $26,193

    Rand Corp · Santa Monica, CA · 2023

    79220 applying global learnings to develop a tested narrative change guide with grassroots engagement to advance equitable well-being policies and outcomes

  • $25,000

    Equimundo Ctr for Masculinities & Soc Ju · Washington, DC · 2023

    78587 shifting gendered narratives of caregivers to illuminate experiences and aspirations of men caregivers and affirm all caregivers' deservingness

  • $20,788

    Fii National Dba Uptogether · Oakland, CA · 2023

    78216 promoting honest narratives of the strengths of low-income people to advance systems change to eradicate a decades-long cycle of poverty

  • $13,750

    Jolu Prods · New Orleans, LA · 2023

    81275 highlighting effective solutions to inequitable fines and fees and transforming narratives for populations historically victimized by inequitable laws

  • $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

  • $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

  • $1.6M

    American Cancer Soc · Kennesaw, GA · 2022

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

  • $1.6M

    Cornell U · Ithaca, NY · 2022

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

  • $1.1M

    California U of Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022

    80259 helping city practitioners use data and narrative to promote equitable development in small and midsize cities

  • $1.0M

    American Cancer Soc · Kennesaw, GA · 2022

    77490 improving understanding of medicaid during the covid-19 crisis through a more comprehensive narrative that 'humanizes' the program and its impact

  • $1.0M

    Array Allian · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    80088 advancing social justice through array alliance's inclusive filmmaking, education, and outreach that drive narrative change

  • $900,000

    Allied Media Projs · Detroit, MI · 2022

    79728 supporting a multimedia research and narrative project about family care to advance a culture of health in black and native american communities

  • $834,489

    George Washington U · Washington, DC · 2022

    79262 expanding the environmental narrative to elevate consciousness of structural racism and opportunities for change

  • $675,000

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022

    80341 advancing reproductive justice by spurring action using pop culture and new networks of narrative content creators and influencers

  • $650,000

    Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2022

    78677 designing, amplifying, and popularizing a housing justice narrative to advance transformative policies that promote housing as a public good

  • $500,000

    Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2022

    80376 countering harmful and hostile narratives and advancing recognition and the dignity of transgender and gender non-conforming children and families

  • $482,500

    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

  • $475,000

    Gold House Fdn · Walnut, CA · 2022

    80110 shifting the cultural narrative in the mainstream media on asians and pacific islanders to increase belonging and equity

  • $421,875

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

    79285 supporting the narrative initiative in weaving narrative power with other social-movement strategies to achieve long-term equity and social justice

  • $325,000

    State Power Fund Dba We Make the Future · Youngstown, OH · 2022

    79978 using messaging research on critical issues to advance clear, cohesive local and national narratives that promote equitable and just communities

  • $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

  • $254,928

    American Cancer Soc · Kennesaw, GA · 2022

    80001 building on the american cancer society's narrative project to convey the benefits of healthcare coverage, particularly medicaid

  • $225,000

    Leadership Conf Edu Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

    80347 shifting narratives in the media to underscore and emphasize the need for the collection of race and ethnicity data to achieve equitable policy

  • $187,092

    Fii National Dba Uptogether · Oakland, CA · 2022

    78216 promoting honest narratives of the strengths of low-income people to advance systems change to eradicate a decades-long cycle of poverty

  • $134,123

    Federation of Appalachian Hous Enterpris · Berea, KY · 2022

    76965 increasing investment in rural regions of persistent poverty with policy, research, and narrative change efforts beyond typical financing approaches

  • $133,693

    Purpose Campaigns · New York, NY · 2022

    78192 enhancing funding for and sharing learning from narrative-change pilot projects under the voices for economic opportunity grand challenge initiative

  • $104,076

    Harvard U T H Chan Sch of Pub Hlt · Boston, MA · 2022

    79968 building the public narrative on reparations as a means to closing the racial health equity gap

  • $100,000

    Equimundo Center for Masculinities and · Washington, DC · 2022

    78587 shifting gendered narratives of caregivers to illuminate experiences and aspirations of men caregivers and affirm all caregivers' deservingness

  • $100,000

    Narrative Nation · Bay Shore, NY · 2022

    79634 general operating support for narrative nation

  • $75,000

    Kinetic Leaders · New York, NY · 2022

    80271 identifying gaps in and opportunities to improve existing narratives on access to healthy affordable food

  • $75,000

    Community Fdn of Louisville · Louisville, KY · 2022

    79087 implementing and learning about a 'reparative economics' approach to strategies that prioritize black agency, narratives, and wealth generation

  • $50,000

    Center for Native Am You Aspen Inst · Washington, DC · 2022

    77395 elevating native american approaches for leadership development and narrative change so native peoples can author their own story and future

  • $37,028

    Rand Corp · Santa Monica, CA · 2022

    77903 leveraging global well-being narratives to advance equitable well-being for people, communities, and the natural environment in the united states

  • $35,000

    Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

    78226 changing the narrative on who is viewed as deserving of economic stability to open the door for solutions to improve the lives of millions

  • $25,050

    Purpose Fdn · New York, NY · 2022

    78591 advancing positive narratives about single mothers to promote policies that better support them and their children

  • $20,000

    Center for An Urban Future · New York, NY · 2022

    78431 using sentiment analysis to shape the narrative in major u.s. Cities to inform successful rollout of covid-19 vaccines

  • $11,587

    Family Values Work a Multi State Cons · Milwaukee, WI · 2022

    78651 creating a plan to flip the anti-caregiver narrative, preparing for dissemination of a new narrative that supports and values caregivers' vital role

  • $10,000

    Federation of Appalachian Hous Enterpris · Berea, KY · 2022

    77495 building a unified narrative strategy to achieve 'strength in numbers' to effect positive change for communities challenged by persistent poverty

  • $10,000

    Three Sisters Kitchen · Albuquerque, NM · 2022

    77526 using the unique influence of a local food space in activating narratives to shift community perspectives and policy and stir action on poverty

  • $10,000

    Institute for Policy Studies · Washington, DC · 2022

    77488 working with the poor people's campaign to change the pervasive narrative that blames poor people in this country for their own poverty

  • $989,856

    American Cancer Soc · Atlanta, GA · 2020

    75227 Humanizing the Medicaid narrative to emphasi

  • $373,950

    Tides Ctr · San Francisco, CA · 2020

    77421 Shifting dominant narratives on race, class,

  • $342,093

    Rand Corp · Santa Monica, CA · 2020

    77903 Leveraging global well-being narratives to a

  • $315,000

    Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2020

    78226 Changing the narrative on who is viewed as d

  • $192,380

    Fii National (Dba Family Independence in · Oakland, CA · 2020

    78216 Promoting honest narratives of the strengths

  • $90,000

    Federation of Appalachian Hous Enterpris · Berea, KY · 2020

    77495 Building a unified narrative strategy to ach

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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