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.

148 grants matching “sector · $57.6M

  • $3.1M

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

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

  • $1.9M

    Illinois Public Health Institute · Chicago, IL · 2024

    80167 supporting the data across sectors for health's national program office, 2022-2025

  • $1.4M

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

    82123 supporting the early childhood funders collaborative and its racial justice and equity fund in strengthening a comprehensive early childhood system

  • $1.2M

    Michigan Public Health Institute (Mphi) · Okemos, MI · 2024

    80168 supporting the data across sectors for health's national program office -- michigan public health institute, 2022-2025

  • $1.2M

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

    81983 supporting the public finance initiative in implementing a pilot program to strengthen the investment ecosystem of small and rural cities

  • $1.0M

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

    81921 supporting five community foundations in using impact investments to advance racial justice, community development, and health equity

  • $999,596

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

    79158 elevating race and equity in the municipal bond market to drive systemic change

  • $900,000

    Public Health Institute · Oakland, CA · 2024

    79486 deepening build healthy places network's field-building work to advance cross-sector collaboration for racially equitable community investment

  • $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

  • $450,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

    81440 supporting the early childhood funders collaborative in expanding outreach and building momentum of the raising child care fund

  • $448,373

    American Public Health Association Inc (Apha) · Washington, DC · 2024

    79725 strengthening and enriching the promotion of equity in journals in the public health sector

  • $337,500

    New Jersey Arts and Culture Renewal Fund of Princeton Area Community Founda · Lawrenceville, NJ · 2024

    81015 continuing the new jersey arts and culture renewal fund's support for the smallest organizations in the state's arts and culture sector

  • $300,000

    Independent Sector · Washington, DC · 2024

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

  • $188,757

    Proinspire · Arlington, VA · 2024

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

  • $180,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

    81704 supporting the network for public health law in implementing continued organizational change to transition to a more cohesive organizational structure

  • $180,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

    80201 launching the race to lead survey and a racial equity assessment, supporting social-change leaders, and strengthening social-movement ecosystems

  • $180,000

    Nationswell Llc · New York, NY · 2024

    82319 coalescing a diverse group of design partners -- from the private, philanthropic, and social sectors -- to advance collective wealth-building

  • $166,500

    National Association for Family Child Care (Nafcc) · Washington, DC · 2024

    82334 convening global and domestic home-based childcare organizations to identify best practices to advance the sector

  • $157,500

    Candid · New York, NY · 2024

    80504 understanding racial demographics and representation in the social sector to advance racial equity in the sector

  • $124,300

    World Health Organization · 2024

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

  • $113,322

    University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    80766 hosting meetings targeting health data sectors to brainstorm effective approaches for driving data equity

  • $112,500

    Center for Land Reform · Flint, MI · 2024

    80239 building a more robust land-banking sector in new jersey to address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties

  • $100,045

    Sand County Foundation · Madison, WI · 2024

    79510 promoting equitable investment of the federal government's historic investment in the water sector, focusing on historically marginalized communities

  • $90,000

    National Immigration Law Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    82630 amplifying research findings to strengthen cross-sector collaboration and advocacy for immigrant wellbeing

  • $83,333

    Movement Strategy Center · Oakland, CA · 2024

    80489 supporting the equitable intermediary fund in strengthening the work of equitable intermediaries in advancing equity in the social sector

  • $57,600

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

    80302 establishing a planning grant program to test, pilot, and innovate integration of racial equity criteria into different phases of a bond issuance

  • $50,000

    Health Care Without Harm · Reston, VA · 2024

    79559 bringing climate and health equity solutions to scale by advancing strategies from and across the global healthcare sector

  • $48,000

    Digdeep Right To Water Project · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    79780 convening to build a u.s. Water access, sanitation, and hygiene sector through planning meetings and establishing a water access innovation cohort

  • $30,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

    81934 providing membership support for the early childhood funders collaborative, 2024-2026

  • $27,590

    Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL · 2024

    77406 studying the effectiveness of west side united's collaborative approach to cross-sector alignment in chicago to advance health equity

  • $25,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

    79222 supporting grassroots organizations in building demand for and action on equitable child care

  • $24,745

    Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024

    78406 evaluating rwjf's advancing rural connectedness, evidence, policy, and practice across sectors toward improved social and economic outcomes program

  • $20,039

    Public Health Accreditation Board · Alexandria, VA · 2024

    79320 catalyzing governmental health departments and cross-sector partners to advance data modernization and transform equitable public health data systems

  • $20,000

    Possibility Labs · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    79822 employing liberatory leadership and a community of practice to dismantle a white supremacist culture in the nonprofit sector -- transfer grant

  • $19,969

    University of Connecticut · Storrs, CT · 2024

    77432 studying how cross-sector alignment, with a social-service focus on transit, can improve substance-use outcomes and reduce treatment costs

  • $8,197

    Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024

    78647 evaluating the causal impact of labor organizing on staff retention, the quality of care, and cost-efficiency in the nursing home sector

  • $3.5M

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

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

  • $1.2M

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

    79158 elevating race and equity in the municipal bond market to drive systemic change

  • $1.0M

    Public Hlt Inst · Oakland, CA · 2023

    79486 deepening build healthy places network's field-building work to advance cross-sector collaboration for racially equitable community investment

  • $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

  • $900,404

    Sand Co Fdn · Madison, WI · 2023

    79510 promoting equitable investment of the federal government's historic investment in the water sector, focusing on historically marginalized communities

  • $500,000

    Praxis Proj · Oakland, CA · 2023

    78919 identifying, creating, and fostering learning and changes in organizational practices across sectors to improve health equity and racial justice

  • $490,206

    American Pub Hlt Assn · Washington, DC · 2023

    79725 strengthening and enriching the promotion of equity in journals in the public health sector

  • $400,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

    80201 launching the race to lead survey and a racial equity assessment, supporting social-change leaders, and strengthening social-movement ecosystems

  • $375,000

    New Jersey Arts and Culture Renewal Fund · Lawrenceville, NJ · 2023

    81015 continuing the new jersey arts and culture renewal fund's support for the smallest organizations in the state's arts and culture sector

  • $352,652

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

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

  • $350,000

    Independent Sector · Washington, DC · 2023

    81268 general operating support for independent sector, 2023-2024

  • $334,000

    Tides Ctr · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    78195 transforming the manufactured-home-community sector in the midwest, mountain west, and southeast to build resident power

  • $245,734

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

    77367 sustaining the build initiative to capitalize on and solidify gains under rwjf's harnessing opportunities for positive early childhood program

  • $225,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

    79222 supporting grassroots organizations in building demand for and action on equitable child care

  • $211,141

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

    76499 increasing the network for public health law's role in advancing health equity and cross-sector collaboration

  • $180,348

    Public Hlt Accreditation Bd · Alexandria, VA · 2023

    79320 catalyzing governmental health departments and cross-sector partners to advance data modernization and transform equitable public health data systems

  • $180,000

    Possibility Labs · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    79822 employing liberatory leadership and a community of practice to dismantle a white supremacist culture in the nonprofit sector -- transfer grant

  • $138,225

    Public Hlt Accreditation Bd · Alexandria, VA · 2023

    76517 supporting the public health national center for innovations in promoting cross-sector alignment to improve population health

  • $124,087

    California U of Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    80766 hosting meetings targeting health data sectors to brainstorm effective approaches for driving data equity

  • $73,770

    Columbia U · New York, NY · 2023

    78647 evaluating the causal impact of labor organizing on staff retention, the quality of care, and cost-efficiency in the nursing home sector

  • $55,000

    Visible Netwk Labs · Arvada, CO · 2023

    78219 conducting a developmental evaluation of the third phase of rwjf's data across sectors for health authorization

  • $50,000

    Illinois Pub Hlt Inst · Chicago, IL · 2023

    77041 supporting the data across sectors for health's national program office, 2020-2022

  • $49,999

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

    78310 ascertaining the role of law in public health practice to facilitate use of disaggregated data to advance racial/ethnic equity

  • $45,174

    Northeastern U · Boston, MA · 2023

    77756 studying public-sector administrative, regulatory, and procurement practices to help achieve successful alignment of health care and social services

  • $27,328

    South Carolina U of · Columbia, SC · 2023

    77405 exploring how to foster meaningful engagement with individuals with lived experience in south carolina to advance equity in cross-sector alignment

  • $25,000

    Movement Strat Ctr · Oakland, CA · 2023

    79509 advancing a fiscal-justice strategy in the municipal finance sector to integrate social justice movements into municipal bond investing

  • $25,000

    Multiplier · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    78608 creating a more responsible, compassionate, and just tech sector to drive individual, relational, and collective wellness

  • $21,895

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

    78652 exploring further the evolving priorities, strategies, and needs of social movement leaders and ways that funders can support movement leadership

  • $18,370

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

    78573 leveraging and amplifying rwjf community funding in new jersey to advance cross-community learning, action, and network-building to improve health

  • $17,519

    Louisville U of Rsh Fdn · Louisville, KY · 2023

    77407 studying freedom house's collaborative approach to cross-sector alignment in kentucky to improve outcomes for pregnant and parenting women in recovery

  • $12,500

    American Cncl for An Energy Efficient Ec · Washington, DC · 2023

    76744 interdisciplinary research leaders cohort four - 2019: energy insecurity and public health: going further through cross-sector collaboration

  • $10,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

    80137 planning strategies with global learning partners for advancing social connections that will help improve health and well-being for all people

  • $2,500

    Clayton Pub Sch Dist · Clayton, NJ · 2023

    78027 forging data collaboratives in clayton, n.j., to bridge communications gaps to facilitate sharing data across sectors to improve community health

  • $2,125

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

    78203 supporting development of the race equity assessment for learning tool to help advance race equity in the nonprofit sector

  • $1,991

    Washington U of · Seattle, WA · 2023

    77403 engaging tribal nations to learn how cross-sector alignment can contribute to improved health and health equity in tribal settings

  • $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

  • $1.0M

    Michigan Pub Hlt Inst · Okemos, MI · 2022

    80168 supporting the data across sectors for health's national program office -- michigan public health institute, 2022-2025

  • $1.0M

    Sand Co Fdn · Madison, WI · 2022

    79510 promoting equitable investment of the federal government's historic investment in the water sector, focusing on historically marginalized communities

  • $1.0M

    Public Hlt Inst · Oakland, CA · 2022

    79486 deepening build healthy places network's field-building work to advance cross-sector collaboration for racially equitable community investment

  • $989,667

    Illinois Pub Hlt Inst · Chicago, IL · 2022

    80167 supporting the data across sectors for health's national program office, 2022-2025

  • $720,286

    Illinois Pub Hlt Inst · Chicago, IL · 2022

    77041 supporting the data across sectors for health's national program office, 2020-2022

  • $518,400

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2022

    80302 establishing a planning grant program to test, pilot, and innovate integration of racial equity criteria into different phases of a bond issuance

  • $450,000

    Health Care Without Harm · Reston, VA · 2022

    79559 bringing climate and health equity solutions to scale by advancing strategies from and across the global healthcare sector

  • $432,000

    Digdeep Right To Water Project · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    79780 convening to build a u.s. Water access, sanitation, and hygiene sector through planning meetings and establishing a water access innovation cohort

  • $400,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2022

    80201 launching the race to lead survey and a racial equity assessment, supporting social-change leaders, and strengthening social-movement ecosystems

  • $340,204

    Georgia State University Research Founda · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    77918 strengthening cross-sector alignment in policy choices to facilitate recovery from the triple crisis of covid-19, recession, and systemic racism

  • $333,333

    Change Elemental · Washington, DC · 2022

    79791 supporting the economic inclusion of families by advancing cross-sector and multidisciplinary dialogue and strategic planning

  • $333,000

    Tides Ctr · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    78195 transforming the manufactured-home-community sector in the midwest, mountain west, and southeast to build resident power

  • $259,951

    American Pub Hlt Assn · Washington, DC · 2022

    79725 strengthening and enriching the promotion of equity in journals in the public health sector

  • $250,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2022

    79222 supporting grassroots organizations in building demand for and action on equitable child care

  • $233,571

    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

  • $227,655

    Columbia U · New York, NY · 2022

    78647 evaluating the causal impact of labor organizing on staff retention, the quality of care, and cost-efficiency in the nursing home sector

  • $225,000

    Movement Strat Ctr · Oakland, CA · 2022

    79509 advancing a fiscal-justice strategy in the municipal finance sector to integrate social justice movements into municipal bond investing

  • $225,000

    Rutgers St U of Nj Camden · Camden, NJ · 2022

    80480 collaborating with the rutgers-camden master of public administration program to create public and nonprofit-sector leadership networks in new jersey

  • $224,663

    Kaiser Fdn Hlt Plan of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022

    78406 evaluating rwjf's advancing rural connectedness, evidence, policy, and practice across sectors toward improved social and economic outcomes program

  • $223,425

    Proinspire · Arlington, VA · 2022

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

  • $204,038

    Visible Netwk Labs · Arvada, CO · 2022

    78219 conducting a developmental evaluation of the third phase of rwjf's data across sectors for health authorization

  • $200,000

    Possibility Labs · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    79822 employing liberatory leadership and a community of practice to dismantle a white supremacist culture in the nonprofit sector -- transfer grant

  • $200,000

    Harvard U · Cambridge, MA · 2022

    77667 heightening the positive impact that a consistently engaged business sector can have in creating a widespread culture of health

  • $197,058

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2022

    78652 exploring further the evolving priorities, strategies, and needs of social movement leaders and ways that funders can support movement leadership

  • $180,492

    Connecticut U of · Storrs, CT · 2022

    77432 studying how cross-sector alignment, with a social-service focus on transit, can improve substance-use outcomes and reduce treatment costs

  • $175,000

    Candid · New York, NY · 2022

    80504 understanding racial demographics and representation in the social sector to advance racial equity in the sector

  • $165,323

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2022

    78573 leveraging and amplifying rwjf community funding in new jersey to advance cross-community learning, action, and network-building to improve health

  • $125,000

    National Acad of Scis · Washington, DC · 2022

    79541 creating a cross-sectoral framework to mitigate risks for emerging science, technology, and innovation in health and medicine

  • $125,000

    Center for Land Reform · Flint, MI · 2022

    80239 building a more robust land-banking sector in new jersey to address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties

  • $99,058

    Glasser Schoenbaum Hum Svcs Ctr · Sarasota, FL · 2022

    78117 studying covid-19's impact on alignment of social service and public health sectors as related to communities' ability to absorb clinical referrals

  • $90,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2022

    80137 planning strategies with global learning partners for advancing social connections that will help improve health and well-being for all people

  • $83,333

    Movement Strat Ctr · Oakland, CA · 2022

    80489 supporting the equitable intermediary fund in strengthening the work of equitable intermediaries in advancing equity in the social sector

  • $75,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2022

    79985 supporting the building movement project's work with the leadership funders group to improve how philanthropy engages, supports, and develops leaders

  • $75,000

    American Cncl for An Energy Efficient Ec · Washington, DC · 2022

    76744 interdisciplinary research leaders cohort four - 2019: energy insecurity and public health: going further through cross-sector collaboration

  • $70,000

    Seiu Ed and Support Fund · Hadley, MA · 2022

    78134 supporting networks of family child-care educators to ensure their economic stability, elevate their voice, and stabilize the sector

  • $67,762

    National Partnership for Women & Fams · Washington, DC · 2022

    77226 providing comprehensive 'guidance' to enable the health care sector to help childbearing women and newborns live their healthiest lives

  • $67,500

    Multiplier · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    78608 creating a more responsible, compassionate, and just tech sector to drive individual, relational, and collective wellness

  • $54,000

    Global Philanthropy Partnership · Chicago, IL · 2022

    78991 growing and diversifying the emergent learning community to strengthen the social sector in understanding and solving complex social problems

  • $47,878

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2022

    78203 supporting development of the race equity assessment for learning tool to help advance race equity in the nonprofit sector

  • $44,994

    Financial Hlth Ntwrk · Chicago, IL · 2022

    77878 developing guidelines for the health care sector to play an active role in supporting patients' financial health

  • $40,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2022

    79393 providing membership support for the early childhood funders collaborative, 2022-2024

  • $40,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2022

    75312 supporting rwjf's upstream action acceleration initiative in building healthier communities across new jersey

  • $37,200

    Los Angeles Co of Dept of Pub Hlt · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    76438 examining the cross-sector impact of los angeles county's maternity assessment management access & service initiative for pre- and post-natal care

  • $31,500

    Clayton Pub Sch Dist · Clayton, NJ · 2022

    78027 forging data collaboratives in clayton, n.j., to bridge communications gaps to facilitate sharing data across sectors to improve community health

  • $31,490

    Candid · New York, NY · 2022

    77982 providing rapid-response data and resources for the philanthropic sector during the covid-19 pandemic and for evolving societal problems

  • $31,084

    Washington U of · Seattle, WA · 2022

    77403 engaging tribal nations to learn how cross-sector alignment can contribute to improved health and health equity in tribal settings

  • $30,000

    Brookings Inst · Washington, DC · 2022

    78918 advancing collaborative, cross-sector approaches to achieving health equity and effective health care and health outcomes in communities

  • $25,000

    National Comm Reinvestment Coal · Washington, DC · 2022

    78475 mobilizing cross-sector support to shape reform and modernize rules of the community reinvestment act

  • $25,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2022

    78783 integrating global strategies that address root causes of isolation, increase social connections, and create healthier, more equitable communities

  • $18,780

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2022

    77116 collaborating on global learning on social isolation to amplify impact and advance the field

  • $17,200

    Emerson College · Boston, MA · 2022

    78175 laying the groundwork toward development of a framework in boston to effectively share power between the public and public sectors

  • $12,500

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2022

    78331 supporting aces connection's financial self-sufficiency in advancing the science of adversity, resilience, and healing during the time of a pandemic

  • $5,245

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

    74215 understanding health status in the mississippi delta and the role of cross-sector collaboration in improving health and well-being for residents

  • $3,039

    Hennepin County · Minneapolis, MN · 2022

    76095 using cross-sector datasets to examine use of family-supportive services in the removal of a young child from the home

  • $5.6M

    Illinois Pub Hlt Inst · Chicago, IL · 2020

    77041 Supporting the Data Across Sectors for Healt

  • $2.9M

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2020

    76499 Increasing the Network for Public Health Law

  • $1.3M

    Independent Sector · Washington, DC · 2020

    78046 General operating support for Independent Se

  • $988,932

    Georgia State University Research Founda · Atlanta, GA · 2020

    77918 Strengthening cross-sector alignment in poli

  • $601,382

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2020

    77367 Sustaining the BUILD Initiative to capitaliz

  • $450,040

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2020

    78203 Supporting development of the Race Equity As

  • $449,994

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2020

    78310 Ascertaining the role of law in public healt

  • $419,227

    Northeastern U · Boston, MA · 2020

    77756 Studying public-sector administrative, regul

  • $393,830

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2020

    77247 Providing logistic support for the County He

  • $275,000

    Independent Sector · Washington, DC · 2020

    74992 Providing general operating support for Inde

  • $270,974

    Illinois Pub Hlt Inst · Chicago, IL · 2020

    76267 Supporting the Data Across Sectors for Healt

  • $207,000

    Tides Ctr · San Francisco, CA · 2020

    78291 Studying data interoperability across sector

  • $166,241

    Mathematica Pol Rsh · Princeton, NJ · 2020

    75839 Evaluating RWJF's Data Across Sectors for He

  • $112,500

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2020

    78331 Supporting ACEs Connection's financial self-

  • $110,000

    Connecticut U of · Storrs, CT · 2020

    77432 Studying how cross-sector alignment, with a

  • $107,868

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2020

    75312 Supporting RWJF's Upstream Action Accelerati

  • $104,091

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2020

    77638 Assessing legal issues arising from COVID-19

  • $69,700

    Hennepin County · Minneapolis, MN · 2020

    76095 Using cross-sector datasets to examine use o

  • $45,495

    Mount Auburn Assoc · Somerville, MA · 2020

    77807 Understanding how established cross-sector c

  • $45,090

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2020

    77979 Examining the role the municipal bond market

  • $40,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2020

    77340 Providing membership and operational support

  • $15,000

    Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2020

    76104 Rethinking strategies for revenue generation

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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