Funding search · EIN 263241764 · Houston, TX

Laura and John Arnold 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.

2,588
grants reported
$754.5M
total given
2020–2024
filing years
$138,933
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

researchpolicyrandomizedtrialcontrolledstateconductcare

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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

  • Criminal justice research: pretrial, policing, sentencing, community supervision
  • Health care cost and drug pricing policy analysis for policymakers
  • Randomized controlled trials and evidence-to-policy infrastructure (J-PAL, MDRC)
  • Medicare Advantage, dual-eligibles, and insurance market research
  • K-12 and postsecondary education reform, student lending accountability
  • Housing supply, zoning reform, fiscal and tax policy analysis

Typical grant

Median grant is $138,933, with the middle half between $50,713 and $297,174. University research projects and evaluations cluster in the $500,000 to $1,000,000 range; the eight-figure checks go to long-term intermediary partners like The City Fund and MDRC receiving general operating support. Repeat funding is heavy, with MIT, RAND, Yale, Penn, Brown, Harvard, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Urban Institute appearing multiple times across years.

Their words

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

  • randomized controlled trial
  • to inform policy discussions
  • evidence-based
  • technical assistance to policymakers
  • policy translation
  • nonpartisan

Positioning adjacent work

  • Lead with a causal design: RCT or rigorous evaluation, not descriptive work or program delivery.
  • Name the specific policymaker audience and the decision your findings will inform.
  • Ask $500K to $1M for a single university research project; larger only with institutional track record.
  • Connect to a live reform: pretrial assessment, Medicare Advantage payment, zoning, drug pricing, or supervision revocations.
  • Pair research with a dissemination or technical assistance arm; they fund translation, not just findings.

Worth knowing: Money concentrates in DC think tanks and a small set of elite research universities, and the same institutions recur year after year, so this reads as a relationship-driven portfolio built around known research teams. Recent years show heavy weighting toward health care cost containment and criminal justice evaluation, with education flowing mostly through a few large intermediaries rather than individual scholars.

200 grants matching “evaluations · $59.9M

  • $5.0M

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2024

    To support grantee to develop and advance multiple strategies to significantly increase its organizational impact in areas including: (i) strengthening connections between its research and policymakers; (ii) building a read all
  • $3.5M

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    To support j-pal north america, including by funding landmark randomized evaluations, expanding the capacity and diversity of researchers who work on randomized evaluations, translating findings into actionable insights read all
  • $2.0M

    Vera Institute of Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    To support the restoring promise initiative that partners with state departments of corrections to design and facilitate rigorous evaluation of reimagined housing units for incarcerated young adults in a way that center read all
  • $945,308

    Nacdl Foundation for Criminal Justice · Washington, DC · 2024

    To support a pilot evaluation on the adoption of counsel at first appearance in virginia.

  • $900,000

    Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2024

    To conduct a comprehensive outcome evaluation for oregon measure 110.

  • $683,353

    Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024

    To support the renewal of grantee's collaboration for regulatory rigor, integrity, and transparency project, which will evaluate the quality of the evidence base for medical products, fulfillment of required post-market read all
  • $670,128

    University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    To conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the change in policy governing police department use and documentation of pretextual stops.

  • $610,483

    Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    To conduct a mega study - a large-scale randomized controlled trial that aims to simultaneously evaluate ten different low-cost interventions that support first-year college students.

  • $570,000

    Code for America Labs · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    To support a state to design, build, and evaluate a process to reduce the costs and administrative burden associated with renewing medicaid eligibility for dual-eligible beneficiaries and creating publicly available mat read all
  • $554,540

    Anne Tumlinson Innovations Llc · Washington, DC · 2024

    To objectively track biopharmaceutical companies' investment and r&d decisions and evaluating how these choices impact innovation, particularly in response to federal policy changes.

  • $515,277

    University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2024

    To expand grantee's lab for economic opportunities? ("leo") capacity to work with organizations and agencies in the criminal justice space, with the overall goal of increasing rigorous criminal justice impact evaluation read all
  • $463,899

    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024

    To conduct an evaluation to understand the effects of a rapid, multi-payer transition from fee-for-service to value-based payments on health care cost and the quality of care.

  • $447,890

    Minnesota Justice Research Center · Saint Paul, MN · 2024

    To support implementation of the recently-passed, omnibus supervision bill in minnesota, providing guidance and expertise to agency leaders, and monitoring implementation issues; facilitating connections between policy read all
  • $423,126

    Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024

    To evaluate the implementation of two neighborhood community violence interventions in washington, d.c.

  • $406,376

    Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2024

    To evaluate the law enforcement alternative response strategies implemented by two north carolina cities: durham and greensboro.

  • $401,200

    Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2024

    To build a network of sheriffs to pilot and evaluate policy innovations, workshop policy and research needs, and serve as a launchpad for an independent organization of solutions-oriented sheriffs.

  • $377,324

    The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2024

    Develop and rigorously evaluate the first use of a sandbox environment within a government agency to advance the use of ai in the public sector.

  • $347,331

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    To support the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab ("j-pal") north america community safety and criminal justice reform initiative, with the overall goal of spurring new evaluations and evidence on criminal legal poli read all
  • $338,391

    Reading Partners · Oakland, CA · 2024

    To conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluation of the reading partners program.

  • $337,078

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    To evaluate whether algorithmically blinding prosecutors to a defendant's race reduces bias in charging decisions, and if race-blinding has other unintended impacts on charging decisions.

  • $303,803

    Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2024

    To design two new transformative undergraduate degree programs at asu to serve as a model for other programs and higher education institutions seeking to improve return-on-investment for students and taxpayers, and buil read all
  • $300,000

    Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2024

    To provide expert training and technical assistance to law enforcement and city officials in six (6) urban areas to implement, evaluate and test the effectiveness of place network investigations ("pni"), with the overal read all
  • $299,833

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    To evaluate the existing home and community based services evidence base and develop a research agenda aimed at decreasing nursing home utilization and spending.

  • $293,138

    Justice Innovation · New York, NY · 2024

    To explore the prosecutor policy landscape relating to intimate partner violence, as well as host two convenings to further generate evaluation opportunities.

  • $293,000

    New York University · New York, NY · 2024

    To evaluate the collection, retention and use of dna analysis by law enforcement.

  • $288,986

    Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2024

    To conduct and disseminate research that evaluates the effectiveness of state-level initiatives on contraceptive access by estimating causal effect of other similar state-run programs.

  • $287,291

    Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024

    To conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluation of mississippi's kinship care navigator program, a support program for kinship caregivers of children in mississippi.

  • $281,077

    Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    To evaluate "playing 4 change," a video game-supported, school-based therapeutic group that is designed to reduce aggression among at-risk youth, during the pivotal transition to adolescence.

  • $280,000

    Project Evident · Boston, MA · 2024

    To pilot an evidence pipeline accelerator to expand the pool of nonprofit programs ready for rigorous evaluation.

  • $273,359

    The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2024

    To conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluation of roots, an early numeracy tutoring program for kindergarten students developed by the university of oregon.

  • $271,136

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    This project uses a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of financial assistance on both short-term and long-term pretrial outcomes, including court attendance, incarceration for failures to appear, and ca read all
  • $266,320

    The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2024

    To conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate tutored by teachers, an online tutoring program for elementary school students aimed at improving math and english language arts achievement.

  • $263,174

    Education Strategy Group Llc · Chevy Chase, MD · 2024

    To (i) provide technical assistance to up to five states to help states build a framework for measuring and evaluating postsecondary value and return-on-investment; and to (ii) support louisiana and tennessee to develop read all
  • $261,183

    Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2024

    To evaluate the implementation and impact of body-worn cameras automated auditing on multiple police agencies.

  • $255,072

    Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    To evaluate the advance peace gun-violence reduction program.

  • $250,000

    National Policing Institute · Arlington, VA · 2024

    To evaluate the effects of police reforms in new jersey, including de-escalation training, peer bystander intervention training, and a change in use of force policy and reporting requirements, on officer perceptions and read all
  • $250,000

    Duke University · Durham, NC · 2024

    To develop and evaluate a new plea bargaining tracking tool in durham county, north carolina and utah county, utah.

  • $241,700

    Regents of the University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2024

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate lifeskills training program for high school students in colorado.

  • $239,532

    National Center for State Courts · Williamsburg, VA · 2024

    To conduct a causal inferential impact study to evaluate the outcomes and impact of kentucky's pretrial policies using statewide data in kentucky.

  • $239,112

    Economic Mobility Corporation · New York, NY · 2024

    To conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluation of the valley initiative for development and advancement (vida), an organization that supports adults seeking to complete occupational training programs at area colleg read all
  • $219,433

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

    To reduce the use of high-cost and high-use low-value medical devices by: (1) implementing and evaluating policy interventions, (2) analyzing and developing policy proposals, and (3) disseminating findings.

  • $217,312

    Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    To support resound research for reproductive health in its evaluation of the effectiveness of state-level vasectomy coverage policies.

  • $216,952

    Mathematica · Princeton, NJ · 2024

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a nurse-led hospital discharge and home follow-up program for chronically ill older adults.

  • $213,603

    University of South Carolina · Columbia, SC · 2024

    To evaluate the implementation and impact of the truleo system of body-worn camera automated auditing on multiple police agencies.

  • $208,332

    Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024

    To conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluation of safecare, an in-home, parent-training program that aims to reduce child neglect and maltreatment.

  • $199,913

    Justice Innovation · New York, NY · 2024

    To develop a practice model to support effective policy implementation and its rigorous evaluation in the area of public defense.

  • $198,168

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2024

    To evaluate the effectiveness of development course referral using multiple measures assessment on successful gateway course completion and on degree completion or transfer to a four-year college.

  • $197,256

    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024

    To support north carolina counties in implementing social workers in newly established public defender offices, evaluate the implementation, and prepare for an impact evaluation in the future.

  • $195,925

    The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2024

    To evaluate community wellness and crisis response program in california.

  • $189,983

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    To evaluate the impact of the commonwealth care alliance to inform the design of integrated care models.

  • $187,384

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2024

    To evaluate the lifeskills training substance abuse prevention program in minnesota.

  • $186,681

    Drexel University · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    To evaluate the impact of expanding access to diversion program in two counties in pennsylvania.

  • $184,973

    University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2024

    To support scholars to conduct rigorous impact evaluations in the criminal justice policy space, with the overall goal of increasing current and future capacity for strong, causal cj research.

  • $175,000

    Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    To conduct a retrospective evaluation of the firearm assault shoot team ("fast"), a police program to improve non-fatal shooting case clearance rates in denver, colorado.

  • $174,889

    The Justice Management Institute · Arlington, VA · 2024

    To support the evaluation of a study on the lack of prosecution of misdemeanor offenses and its impact on subsequent criminal justice system involvement.

  • $169,180

    Regents of the University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2024

    To support evaluation of school reforms in denver.

  • $165,000

    Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

    To update grantee's 2019 state survey of medicaid physician fees with 2024 data to support efforts to evaluate and analyze medicaid fees, fee changes (2019 to 2024), and medicaid-to-medicare fee ratios.

  • $164,776

    The Brigham and Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024

    To evaluate the implementation of a novel medicaid values-based payment model on contraceptive access in primary care in massachusetts.

  • $150,309

    Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

    To conduct randomized control trial to evaluate kentucky's wraparound program, a care-coordination model for children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health needs, and their families.

  • $150,000

    American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · Washington, DC · 2024

    To conduct research to evaluate the new excise tax on stock buybacks, especially with regard to relative tax advantages between stock buybacks and stock dividends, the use of buybacks, and investment incentives.

  • $149,422

    Drexel University · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the project scope (safety, cleaning, ownership, partnerships and engagement) program by the southeastern pennsylvania transit authority's police department.

  • $140,592

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    To conduct a research study to evaluate a court-based intervention to reduce judges' inequitable decisions in bail decisions.

  • $130,923

    Virginia Center for Health Innovation · Henrico, VA · 2024

    To evaluate interventions to reduce the use of low-value healthcare in virginia.

  • $129,183

    Wested · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    To conduct a quasi-experimental design to evaluate an online math tutoring program air tutors for upper grade elementary school students.

  • $125,000

    Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2024

    To conduct an evaluation of the civil rights, civil liberties, and ethical concerns presented by law enforcement's use of body cameras, review and analysis.

  • $121,733

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2024

    To conduct a randomized control trial ("rct") evaluation of coop careers.

  • $120,846

    University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024

    To conduct an evaluation to measure the level of racial inequality in the use of low-value care and to quantify the harms associated with low-value care across the medicare population and by racial-ethnic groups.

  • $116,300

    Colorado Succeeds · Denver, CO · 2024

    To strengthen statewide definitions of degree and non-degree credentials of value and secure the data policies necessary to evaluate the efficacy of those definitions through policymaker education and technical assistan read all
  • $115,000

    The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024

    To evaluate the implementation and effects of a 2017 texas law (hb 351) that increased the opportunity for judicial consideration of a person's ability to pay fines and fees and provided alternatives to levying them.

  • $108,161

    Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a cost-of-living grant for low-income community college students.

  • $106,853

    Childrens Home · Tampa, FL · 2024

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the kin-tech kinship navigator, a program designed to support caregivers of children impacted by the child welfare system.

  • $102,729

    Partners for Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    To evaluate grantee's collaborative defense model (the "cdm"), an approach that augments public defense with stronger social service connections, mitigation, and court navigation, with the overall goal of undertaking a read all
  • $100,000

    University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024

    To adapt and evaluate a scalable version of situational decision-making (sit-d) training for police officers, with the overall goal of improving officer decision-making during high-pressure situations and reducing adver read all
  • $100,000

    Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2024

    To plan a causal evaluation at law enforcement agencies (prioritizing sheriffs' offices) to understand the impact of training on use of force and related outcomes.

  • $100,000

    Callisto · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    To develop grantee's legal options program, establishing a network of local referrals for legal and mental health resources for survivors, and designing and implementing a data collection system, with the overall goal o read all
  • $99,980

    University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024

    To revise and publish the study "from retributive to restorative: an alternative approach to justice" which evaluates the short-run impacts of the rollout of restorative justice practices through a research-practice par read all
  • $99,557

    Oregon State University Foundation · Corvallis, OR · 2024

    To conduct exploratory research to test the possibility of rigorously evaluating if evictions increase criminal activities among evicted tenants.

  • $97,335

    George Mason University · Fairfax, VA · 2024

    To plan a research study to causally evaluate the safer stronger together ("sst") initiative, a family-based and location-based approach to preventing violence, arrest, and victimization, in three sites in maryland.

  • $97,000

    Center for Justice and Human Dignity · Tempe, AZ · 2024

    To develop grantee's federal alternatives to incarceration initiative and plan a multi-year study and evaluation.

  • $94,612

    Drexel University · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    To support a future evaluation of a pilot program in philadelphia that relieves eligible residents from legal financial obligations.

  • $90,000

    Police for · Cary, NC · 2024

    To plan for an experimental evaluation of a new police training program that tests the effect of incorporating transparency statements in police-community interactions.

  • $90,000

    University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024

    To support the publication and dissemination of an evaluation of the impact of a prosecutorial intervention targeted towards domestic violence victims at high risk of future harm.

  • $80,312

    Regents of the University of California at Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2024

    This project uses synthetic controls to evaluate the impact of banning pretextual police stops and a difference-in-differences design to evaluate the impact of federal training for local law enforcement on how to make p read all
  • $79,154

    Tufts Medical Center · Boston, MA · 2024

    To conduct an evaluation to measure the level of racial inequality in the use of low-value care and to quantify the harms associated with low-value care across the medicare population and by racial-ethnic groups.

  • $76,431

    Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy · Bethesda, MD · 2024

    To support content development and no-spin summaries of program evaluations aimed at policy and research audiences.

  • $75,672

    Loyola University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024

    To support a national institute of justice-funded process and impact evaluation of illinois's pretrial fairness act.

  • $71,250

    University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024

    To evaluate the causal impact of the lawndale christian legal center's holistic defense model.

  • $60,000

    Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024

    To quantitively evaluate the $800 billion paycheck protection program.

  • $57,499

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024

    The project uses interrupted time series, difference-in-differences, and synthetic control methods to evaluate the impact of a federal consent decree in seattle.

  • $52,109

    Mathematica · Princeton, NJ · 2024

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a program designed to reduce repeat unplanned pregnancies.

  • $50,000

    Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

    To conduct research to evaluate the impact of a new pretrial policy in louisiana.

  • $50,000

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    To support follow-up of a large-scale randomized controlled trial to evaluate the nurse family partnership in south carolina.

  • $48,997

    Wested · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    To support the expansion and extension of a large-scale randomized controlled trial to evaluate assistments, an online math study tool for seventh graders designed to improve math achievement.

  • $43,867

    University of Memphis · Memphis, TN · 2024

    To evaluate the impact of reforms in tennessee, with the overall goal of ensuring that pretrial decision-making is both fair to the accused and promotes positive downstream outcomes for the community.

  • $28,414

    Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024

    To evaluate the long-term impacts of the boston summer youth employment program on violent crime and post-secondary enrollment.

  • $24,553

    Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a supportive housing program for people experiencing chronic homelessness.

  • $19,974

    Behavioral Ideas Lab · New York, NY · 2024

    To evaluate new court notice and communication materials to improve outcomes for californias with outstanding fines and fees.

  • $16,451

    Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024

    To conduct an evaluation on how the growth in medicare advantage enrollment affects how private insurers are paid under medicare advantage.

  • $12,247

    Just City · Memphis, TN · 2024

    To support bail system data collection and data democratization, with the overall goal of providing an accurate and holistic picture of the criminal justice system and evaluating the fidelity and impact of the changes m read all
  • $10,621

    University of South Carolina · Columbia, SC · 2024

    To plan a multi-site randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of implementing truleo, a body worn-video analysis tool for supervision.

  • $7,280

    American Action Forum · Washington, DC · 2024

    To support the evaluation of implications of allowing the child tax credit to be refunded against tax obligations.

  • $6,018

    American Friends of the Hebrew University · New York, NY · 2024

    To conduct research using real-time commercial real estate data to evaluate the impact of opportunity zone designations on economic outcomes.

  • $2,862

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    To help evaluate the impact of a hybrid learning model created by an education partnership on student outcomes.

  • $853,207

    Police Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2023

    To evaluate the effects of police reforms in new jersey on officer perceptions and behavior.

  • $650,000

    The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To evaluate newly approved cancer drugs while developing policy related to the approval and coverage of novel molecular tests and screening technologies.

  • $571,842

    Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023

    To conduct an evaluation on how the growth in medicare advantage enrollment affects how private insurers are paid under medicare advantage.

  • $562,788

    Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2023

    To conduct a comprehensive outcome evaluation for oregon measure 110.

  • $550,000

    Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2023

    To plan for a rigorous evaluation of replications of the university of california san francisco (ucsf) trauma recovery center (trc) model that have been implemented in evergreen park, il; des moines, ia; atlanta, ga; lo read all
  • $536,028

    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023

    To conduct an evaluation to understand the effects of a rapid, multi-payer transition from fee-for-service to value-based payments on health care cost and the quality of care.

  • $535,000

    The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2023

    To evaluate the implementation and effects of a 2017 texas law (hb 351) that increased the opportunity for judicial consideration of a persons ability to pay fines and fees and provided alternatives to levying them.

  • $456,502

    Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023

    To evaluate the implementation of two neighborhood community violence interventions in washington, d.c.

  • $420,000

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Nashville, TN · 2023

    To evaluate the inflation reduction act's impact on changes in drug pricing, insurer benefit design, and use of anticancer drugs among medicare beneficiaries.

  • $420,000

    Vera Institute of Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

    To support the restoring promise initiative that partners with state departments of corrections to design and rigorously evaluate reimagined housing units for incarcerated young adults.

  • $410,000

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2023

    To evaluate the least burdensome release conditions and supervision practices that improve court appearance.

  • $405,580

    Regents of the University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2023

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate lifeskills training program for high school students in colorado.

  • $402,119

    Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2023

    To evaluate the law enforcement alternative response strategies implemented by two north carolina cities: durham and greensboro.

  • $355,502

    Regents of the University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2023

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate functional family therapy-gangs, a therapeutic intervention for justice-involved youth and their families, in denver, colorado.

  • $325,000

    University of Washington · Chicago, IL · 2023

    To evaluate washington state's "netflix" model for purchasing hepatitis c drugs.

  • $308,230

    Vera Institute of Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

    To help reimagine the american prison system through strategic communications and expanding and evaluating the restoring promise initiative.

  • $267,171

    Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023

    To evaluate the advance peace gun-violence reduction program.

  • $209,391

    The Brigham and Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023

    To evaluate factors that influence how doctors make antimicrobial drug prescribing decisions.

  • $198,555

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2023

    To evaluate the impact of the commonwealth care alliance to inform the design of integrated care models.

  • $194,882

    Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

    To conduct a retrospective evaluation of the firearm assault shoot team ("fast"), a police program to improve non-fatal shooting case clearance rates in denver, colorado.

  • $193,252

    Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2023

    To evaluate the impact of new york state pre-trial reform.

  • $191,003

    Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023

    To conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluation of safecare, an in-home, parent-training program that aims to reduce child neglect and maltreatment.

  • $184,795

    Loyola University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023

    To support a national institute of justice-funded process and impact evaluation of illinois's pretrial fairness act.

  • $179,353

    The Justice Management Institute · Arlington, VA · 2023

    To support the evaluation of a study on the lack of prosecution of misdemeanor offenses and its impact on subsequent criminal justice system involvement.

  • $162,263

    Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2023

    To support the evaluation of state policies on contraceptive access.

  • $150,907

    Wested · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To conduct a quasi-experimental design to evaluate an online math tutoring program air tutors for upper grade elementary school students.

  • $150,000

    Drexel University · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the project scope (safety, cleaning, ownership, partnerships and engagement) program by the southeastern pennsylvania transit authority's police department.

  • $150,000

    Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023

    To support an evaluation of california's ab 1950, which reduced the maximum length of probation sentences.

  • $137,960

    Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2023

    To evaluate "perverse incentives" of high prescription drug prices adversely affect cancer care quality and costs to beneficiaries and the medicare program.

  • $133,717

    Chestnut Health Systems · Bloomington, IL · 2023

    To evaluate the implementation and testing of a syringe service program-based model for linking patients with opioid use disorder to medication-assisted treatment.

  • $132,170

    Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023

    To evaluate legislation that limits in- and out-of-network rates for state employees in oregon.

  • $128,000

    Reading Partners · Oakland, CA · 2023

    To conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluation of the reading partners program.

  • $115,155

    Childrens Home · Tampa, FL · 2023

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the kin-tech kinship navigator, a program designed to support caregivers of children impacted by the child welfare system.

  • $114,947

    Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2023

    To evaluate the effect of receiving supplemental security income on mortality among older adults.

  • $108,161

    Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a cost-of-living grant for low-income community college students.

  • $102,520

    University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023

    To evaluate the causal impact of the lawndale christian legal centers holistic defense model.

  • $100,000

    Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2023

    To support national institute of justice's efforts to rigorously evaluate the implementation of office of justice program's community based violence intervention and prevention initiative projects.

  • $99,845

    Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2023

    To assess the feasibility of an evaluation of the center for medicare & medicaid services' ("cms") 1115 medicaid waiver for california that, for the first time, grants medicaid eligibility for all eligible incarcerated read all
  • $86,368

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2023

    To evaluate the quality and usability of recent nursing home ownership data released by cms.

  • $84,105

    American Friends of the Hebrew University · New York, NY · 2023

    To conduct research using real-time commercial real estate data to evaluate the impact of opportunity zone designations on economic outcomes.

  • $84,000

    University of South Carolina · Columbia, SC · 2023

    To plan a multi-site randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of implementing a bodyworn-video analysis tool for supervision.

  • $80,995

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2023

    To evaluate the lifeskills training substance abuse prevention program in minnesota.

  • $70,000

    Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023

    To quantitively evaluate the $800 billion paycheck protection program.

  • $65,756

    Abt Global Llc · Rockville, MD · 2023

    For the extended follow-up of two randomized controlled trials to evaluate the impact of year up's professional training corps.

  • $53,864

    Trustees of the Smith College · Northampton, MA · 2023

    To support evaluation of occupational licensing restrictions and fair chance hiring reforms.

  • $48,787

    Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2023

    To evaluate how first responders can use their existing operational 911 data to better serve individuals in crisis.

  • $47,907

    Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2023

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a supportive housing program for people experiencing chronic homelessness.

  • $46,153

    Governing Council of the University of Toronto · 2023

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a teacher training and coaching program for khan academy in puerto rico.

  • $42,000

    Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2023

    To evaluate the efficacy of new yorks less is more parole reform act.

  • $40,000

    Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2023

    To support capacity building in the office of evaluation sciences to advance high-quality randomized controlled trials of federally funded programs.

  • $31,201

    The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2023

    To support the columbia justice lab's evaluation of the human and fiscal costs of incarceration in manhattan to inform criminal justice policy.

  • $27,400

    University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2023

    To evaluate an innovative co-responder deflection program focused on addressing the opioid epidemic.

  • $23,268

    Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2023

    To evaluate the replication of the cahoots program in three new cities.

  • $22,000

    Economic Mobility Corporation · New York, NY · 2023

    To support identification of high-potential programs in need of randomized controlled trial evaluations.

  • $21,546

    University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023

    To support research evaluating how combining medicare and medicaid benefits in a fide-snp impacts spending, service utilization, and care coordination.

  • $20,000

    Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023

    To evaluate the effects of juvenile administrative fees.

  • $17,376

    University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    To evaluate the increasing role of enhanced plans in medicare part d.

  • $15,932

    University of Kentucky Research Foundation · Lexington, KY · 2023

    To support an evaluation of labor market returns of short-term credentials in higher education.

  • $5,000

    Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2023

    To develop the reporting requirements necessary to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the opportunity zone program.

  • $2.1M

    Vera Institute of Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

    To help reimagine the american prison system through strategic communications and expanding and evaluating the restoring promise initiative.

  • $1.3M

    Mathematica · Princeton, NJ · 2022

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a nurse-led hospital discharge and home follow-up program for chronically ill older adults.

  • $949,869

    Mathematica · Princeton, NJ · 2022

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a program designed to reduce repeat pregnancies.

  • $916,622

    Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

    To conduct research with the philadelphia district attorney's office to evaluate which prosecutor-driven policies can improve fairness and efficiency in the criminal justice system.

  • $838,926

    Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2022

    To conduct a comprehensive outcome evaluation for oregon measure 110.

  • $634,100

    University of Cincinnati Research Institute · Cincinnati, OH · 2022

    To evaluate the effects of police reforms in new jersey.

  • $580,172

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2022

    To launch phase i of the scaling up community college efforts for student success (success) project to pilot and evaluate lower-cost student success interventions to improve such outcomes as completion and time-to-degre read all
  • $571,000

    Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · Branchville, NJ · 2022

    To fund a second evaluation of new jersey's opioid overdose recovery program, which links opioid overdose survivors to medication-assisted treatment.

  • $541,401

    Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2022

    To support the evaluation of state medicaid policies on contraceptive access.

  • $528,386

    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022

    To conduct an evaluation to understand the effects of a rapid, multi-payer transition from fee-for-service to value-based payments on health care cost and the quality of care.

  • $519,270

    Nacdl Foundation for Criminal Justice · Washington, DC · 2022

    To support a pilot evaluation on the adoption of counsel at first appearance in virginia.

  • $405,843

    Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education · Reno, NV · 2022

    To evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of the mobile recovery outreach team intervention on opioid overdose survivors treated in nevada's emergency rooms.

  • $404,820

    Regents of the University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2022

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate lifeskills training program for high school students in colorado.

  • $400,000

    Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022

    To evaluate how the growth in medicare advantage enrollment affects how private insurers are paid under medicare advantage and how targets are established for advanced alternative payment models in traditional fee-for-s read all
  • $375,000

    Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2022

    To evaluate the replication of the cahoots program in three new cities.

  • $326,703

    Virginia Center for Health Innovation · Henrico, VA · 2022

    To evaluate interventions to reduce the use of low-value healthcare in virginia.

  • $325,000

    University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To evaluate washington state's "netflix" model for purchasing hepatitis c drugs.

  • $300,000

    Tufts Medical Center · Boston, MA · 2022

    To conduct an evaluation to measure the level of racial inequality in the use of low-value care and to quantify the harms associated with low-value care across the medicare population and by racial-ethnic groups.

  • $300,000

    The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To conduct a randomized controlled trial of the michigan contraceptive access research and evaluation program.

  • $300,000

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2022

    To evaluate the least burdensome release conditions and supervision practices that improve court appearance.

  • $243,667

    Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2022

    To evaluate the long-term impacts of the boston summer youth employment program on violent crime and post-secondary enrollment.

  • $240,376

    Regents of the University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2022

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate functional family therapy-gangs, a therapeutic intervention for justice-involved youth and their families, in denver, colorado.

  • $235,797

    Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022

    To support an evaluation of california's ab 1950, which reduced the maximum length of probation sentences.

  • $219,122

    Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022

    To evaluate the advance peace gun-violence reduction program.

  • $209,855

    The Brigham and Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022

    To evaluate factors that influence how doctors make antimicrobial drug prescribing decisions.

  • $201,048

    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022

    To evaluate the impact of nutrition-related fiscal policies and programs on public health.

  • $199,353

    The Justice Management Institute · Arlington, VA · 2022

    To support the evaluation of a study on the lack of prosecution of misdemeanor offenses and its impact on subsequent criminal justice system involvement.

  • $198,224

    Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2022

    To work with several state partners to evaluate and design different payment-related incentives that state health care purchasers can utilize to help reduce the use of low-value healthcare services.

  • $192,695

    Regents of the University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2022

    To support evaluation of school reforms in denver.

  • $181,655

    Loyola University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022

    To support a national institute of justice-funded process and impact evaluation of illinois's pretrial fairness act.

  • $180,000

    University of Rochester · Rochester, NY · 2022

    To conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the rochester forensic assertive community treatment model in minnesota.

  • $150,000

    Drexel University · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the project scope (safety, cleaning, ownership, partnerships and engagement) program by the southeastern pennsylvania transit authority's police department.

  • $145,986

    Drexel University · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

    To evaluate the impact of expanding access to diversion program in two counties in pennsylvania.

  • $132,120

    Brown University · Providence, RI · 2022

    To evaluate legislation that limits in- and out-of-network rates for state employees in oregon.

  • $116,134

    Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2022

    To support capacity building in the office of evaluation sciences to advance high-quality randomized controlled trials of federally funded programs.

  • $115,039

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022

    To support follow-up of a large-scale randomized controlled trial to evaluate the nurse family partnership in south carolina.

  • $108,161

    Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a cost-of-living grant for low-income community college students.

  • $100,000

    Wested · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    To support the expansion and extension of a large-scale randomized controlled trial to evaluate assistments, an online math study tool for seventh graders designed to improve math achievement.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • The City Fund3 grants · $30.9M
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology19 grants · $28.2M
  • Urban Institute76 grants · $26.4M
  • Mdrc40 grants · $24.7M
  • Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania41 grants · $21.6M
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College65 grants · $21.1M
  • Center for Effective Public Policy5 grants · $17.0M
  • Research Triangle Institute39 grants · $14.5M
  • Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning2 grants · $13.3M
  • Regents of the University of California at Berkeley56 grants · $11.1M

Giving over time

$212.4M
2020
$185.8M
2022
$162.9M
2023
$193.3M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 2,588 grants.

  • $17.3M

    The City Fund · Falls Church, VA · 2020

    To provide general operating support.

  • $12.5M

    The City Fund · Beaverton, OR · 2024

    To provide general operating support to support grantee's efforts to partner with local leaders to create innovative public school systems, with the overall goal of improving the quality of public education in cities ac read all
  • $10.0M

    Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning · Nashville, TN · 2023

    To support the national tutoring program.

  • $10.0M

    America Achieves · New York, NY · 2022

    To support a national tutoring program and accompanying research to improve academics and wellness for students.

  • $10.0M

    Civica Foundation · Lehi, UT · 2022

    To support the grantee's program to produce nonprofit biosimilar insulin.

  • $6.4M

    Evidence for Healthcare Improvement · Boston, MA · 2020

    To support the institute for clinical and economic review research that provides independent analyses of the comparative cost effectiveness for newly-introduced pharmaceutical drugs.

  • $5.0M

    Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2020

    To support research to advance and elevate tax and spending policy.

  • $5.0M

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2024

    To support grantee to develop and advance multiple strategies to significantly increase its organizational impact in areas including: (i) strengthening connections between its research and policymakers; (ii) building a read all
  • $5.0M

    Habitat for Humanity International · Americus, GA · 2023

    To provide a program-related investment in support of habitat affiliates with early-stage capital for affordable housing development.

  • $5.0M

    Habitat for Humanity International · Americus, GA · 2022

    To provide habitat affiliates with early-stage capital for affordable housing development.

  • $4.8M

    Center for Effective Public Policy · Kensington, MD · 2020

    To provide training and technical assistance for the public safety assessment and pretrial reform.

  • $4.6M

    Center for Effective Public Policy · Kensington, MD · 2023

    To provide training and technical assistance for the public safety assessment and pretrial reform.

  • $4.0M

    Justice Action Network Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023

    To support grantee's charitable and non-partisan criminal justice reform activities.

  • $4.0M

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2020

    To support the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab's north america regional office.

  • $3.5M

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    To support j-pal north america, including by funding landmark randomized evaluations, expanding the capacity and diversity of researchers who work on randomized evaluations, translating findings into actionable insights read all
  • $3.5M

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023

    To support the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab north america in its work to generate randomized controlled trials that measure the impact of social programs and policies.

  • $3.5M

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022

    To support the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab north america in its work to generate randomized controlled trials that measure the impact of social programs and policies.

  • $3.5M

    Center for Effective Public Policy · Kensington, MD · 2022

    To provide training and technical assistance for the public safety assessment and pretrial reform.

  • $3.3M

    Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning · Nashville, TN · 2024

    To support grantee's states leading recovery grant program.

  • $3.2M

    Coalition for Public Safety · Washington, DC · 2020

    To support nonpartisan criminal justice reform efforts in 2020.

  • $3.2M

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2020

    To study the impacts of preschool, summer curricula, and enhanced teacher training on early childhood learning.

  • $3.1M

    Children'S Hospital Corporation Dba Children'S Hospital Boston · Boston, MA · 2020

    To fund a randomized controlled trial analyzing how carbohydrates, fat, and added sugar affect body fat and metabolism.

  • $3.1M

    Persistent Surveillance Systems Llc · Xenia, OH · 2020

    To conduct a six-month pilot test of the aerial investigative research program to assist the baltimore city police department.

  • $3.0M

    Center for Effective Public Policy · Kensington, MD · 2024

    To provide training and technical assistance for the public safety assessment and pretrial reform.

  • $3.0M

    Coalition for Public Safety · Washington, DC · 2022

    To provide general operating support.

  • $3.0M

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    To support the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab north america in its work to generate randomized controlled trials that measure the impact of social programs and policies.

  • $3.0M

    Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2023

    To fund the tax policy center.

  • $3.0M

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022

    To provide general operating support.

  • $3.0M

    Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2022

    To fund the tax policy center.

  • $3.0M

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2020

    To provide general operating support.

  • $2.8M

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2020

    To support the operations of the harvard healthcare markets and regulations lab.

  • $2.5M

    Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2020

    To conduct research on the public safety assessment in up to ten research and implementation sites.

  • $2.5M

    Charter Fund · Broomfield, CO · 2020

    To support the expansion and replication of high-quality schools in camden, new jersey.

  • $2.5M

    Pew Charitable Trusts · Philadelphia, PA · 2020

    To support improved management of state and local public retirement systems.

  • $2.5M

    William Marsh Rice University · Houston, TX · 2020

    To provide operational support to launch the texas policy lab.

  • $2.4M

    Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2022

    To launch a prison research and innovation initiative to infuse transparency, accountability, and innovation into the prison sector.

  • $2.3M

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022

    To support the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab's north america regional office.

  • $2.3M

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2020

    To support the clean slate campaign.

  • $2.2M

    Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2020

    To support implementation of the transitional care model across four hospital systems.

  • $2.1M

    Vera Institute of Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

    To help reimagine the american prison system through strategic communications and expanding and evaluating the restoring promise initiative.

  • $2.0M

    Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024

    To continue to develop and publicly disseminate policy options to regulate and control drug spending.

  • $2.0M

    Vera Institute of Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    To support the restoring promise initiative that partners with state departments of corrections to design and facilitate rigorous evaluation of reimagined housing units for incarcerated young adults in a way that center read all
  • $2.0M

    Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

    To support improvement of the penn wharton budget model.

  • $2.0M

    Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2020

    To support the analysis and impact of federal budget policy reform proposals for policymakers.

  • $2.0M

    Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2020

    To launch a prison research and innovation initiative to infuse transparency, accountability, and innovation into the prison sector.

  • $2.0M

    Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2024

    To support grantee's center on health insurance reforms in providing policymakers and key stakeholders with educational resources and non-partisan technical assistance to support effective cost containment strategies.

  • $1.9M

    American Journalism Project · Washington, DC · 2022

    To support civic news organizations' business development.

  • $1.9M

    American Journalism Project · Washington, DC · 2020

    To support civic news organizations' business development.

  • $1.9M

    Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    To expand pwbm's ability to provide accurate, accessible, and transparent budget and economic analysis of public policy by providing more access to the model and data while deepening the model's capabilities.

  • $1.8M

    Center for Health Policy Development · Portland, ME · 2020

    To provide educational resources for prescription drug and commercial health care prices.

  • $1.8M

    Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2020

    To support grantee's continued efforts to communicates viable, evidence-based methodologies and solutions to drug pricing that balance patient affordability with sustained incentives for innovation.

  • $1.7M

    Research Triangle Institute · Research Triangle Park, NC · 2022

    To conduct research on the public safety assessment in up to ten research and implementation sites.

  • $1.7M

    Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

    To support implementation of the transitional care model across four hospital systems.

  • $1.7M

    Social Finance · Boston, MA · 2022

    To support the acceleration of donor-advised fund capital toward impact investing.

  • $1.6M

    Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2020

    To fund the state medicaid alternative reimbursement and purchasing test for high cost drugs (smart-d) and support the development of value-based alternative drug purchasing models through pharmacy policy interventions, read all
  • $1.5M

    Brown University · Providence, RI · 2020

    To develop and fund initial operations of the brown policy lab.

  • $1.5M

    Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    To support grantee's work in bringing greater attention and visibility to hospital and health system spending, prices, finance, and business practices that impact access to care and lead to higher costs for families, em read all
  • $1.5M

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    To construct a cyclotron facility and procuring the installation of the first 30 mev proton beam within the cyclotron facility.

  • $1.5M

    The Brigham and Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024

    To support the program on regulation, therapeutics, and law ("portal") project on prescription drug policy and promoting meaningful drug innovation and regulation.

  • $1.5M

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2023

    To advance evidence-based policy through high-quality research and technical assistance to generate sustainable, measurable change across several grantee divisions.

  • $1.5M

    The Brigham and Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023

    To support the program on regulation, therapeutics, and law ("portal") project on prescription drug policy and promoting meaningful drug innovation and regulation.

  • $1.5M

    Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

    To support improvement of the penn wharton budget model.

  • $1.5M

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022

    For continued support of the state and local government innovation initiative.

  • $1.5M

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2022

    To advance evidence-based policy through high-quality research and technical assistance to generate sustainable, measurable change across several grantee divisions.

  • $1.5M

    Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2020

    To develop and disseminate research on policy options that maximize access to and affordability of prescription drugs without stifling innovation.

  • $1.5M

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2020

    To support the state and local government innovation initiative at the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab's regional office in north america.

  • $1.5M

    Regents University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2020

    To conduct a randomized controlled trial of the michigan contraceptive access research and evaluation program.

  • $1.5M

    Per Scholas · Bronx, NY · 2020

    To scale up grantee's workforce development program that provides information technology training for low-income adults.

  • $1.4M

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2020

    To advance evidence-based policies that offer concrete, measurable, and lasting improvements to society.

  • $1.4M

    Reason Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2020

    To improve state and municipal pension systems.

  • $1.4M

    Social Finance · Boston, MA · 2024

    To support the acceleration of donor-advised fund capital toward impact investing.

  • $1.4M

    Per Scholas · Bronx, NY · 2022

    To scale up grantee's workforce development program that provides information technology training for low-income adults.

  • $1.3M

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2023

    To study the impacts of preschool, summer curricula, and enhanced teacher training on early childhood learning.

  • $1.3M

    The Council of State Governments · Lexington, KY · 2020

    To implement a scalable technology solution to reduce revocations and recidivism in three states.

  • $1.3M

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2022

    To advance evidence-based policies that offer concrete, measurable, and lasting improvements to society.

  • $1.3M

    Colorado Seminary · Denver, CO · 2020

    To help establish a policy lab in the state of colorado.

  • $1.3M

    Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2022

    To conduct research on how to reduce gun violence.

  • $1.3M

    Social Finance · Boston, MA · 2023

    To support the acceleration of donor-advised fund capital toward impact investing.

  • $1.3M

    Mathematica · Princeton, NJ · 2022

    To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a nurse-led hospital discharge and home follow-up program for chronically ill older adults.

  • $1.3M

    Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2024

    To support fiscal policy work related to tax and budget policy.

  • $1.3M

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    To support the state and local innovation initiative ("slii") of grantee's abdul latif jameel poverty action lab ("j-pal") north america.

  • $1.2M

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2020

    To launch phase i of the scaling up community college efforts for student success (success) project to pilot and evaluate lower-cost student success interventions to improve such outcomes as completion and time-to-degre read all
  • $1.2M

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2022

    To study the impacts of preschool, summer curricula, and enhanced teacher training on early childhood learning.

  • $1.2M

    Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2023

    To support fiscal policy and higher education analysis work.

  • $1.2M

    Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2022

    To support fiscal policy and higher education analysis work.

  • $1.2M

    University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2020

    To provide technical support, capacity building resources, and training to reproductive health providers in utah.

  • $1.2M

    University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2020

    To pilot a project aimed at improving outcomes for youth ages 16 to 24 who are out of school and work in chicago.

  • $1.2M

    Terner Housing Innovation Labs · Oakland, CA · 2024

    To support (1) the scaling of grantee's housing supply simulator tool to new states and municipalities to assist policymakers and researchers in determining the market effects of individual land use policies and (2) pub read all
  • $1.2M

    Southern Poverty Law Center · Montgomery, AL · 2020

    To support litigation and public education efforts concerning indigent incarceration and drivers license suspensions.

  • $1.1M

    The Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023

    To develop a research infrastructure that helps cities better understand and respond to waves of gun violence.

  • $1.1M

    Center for Effective Public Policy · Kensington, MD · 2022

    To provide technical assistance for pretrial reform implementation in illinois.

  • $1.1M

    The City Fund · Falls Church, VA · 2020

    To improve the quality of public education in cities across the united states.

  • $1.1M

    Project On Predatory Student Lending · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2024

    To provide general operating support.

  • $1.1M

    University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To conduct research exploring the impacts of monetary sanctions and identifying alternative legal system reforms.

  • $1.1M

    Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2024

    To support and expand grantee's gun policy in america initiative which provides the public, policymakers, and journalists with needed information on the effects of gun policies.

  • $1.1M

    Mdrc · New York, NY · 2020

    To evaluate the least burdensome release conditions and supervision practices that improve court appearance.

  • $1.1M

    University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2020

    To support further research and policy development on surprise medical billing, analysis on the relationship between private equity and commercial health care prices, and the development of affordability policies and st read all
  • $1.1M

    Regents University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2020

    To support the operations of the california policy lab, which seeks to improve california state and local government programs and policy.

  • $1.1M

    Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2020

    To support the operations of the california policy lab, which seeks to improve california state and local government programs and policy.

  • $1.1M

    Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2023

    To develop domestic violence pretrial assessments.

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.