Funding search · EIN 131635303 · New York, NY

Russell Sage Foundation

Name: Russell Sage Foundation grants, 2021–2023
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

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

469
grants reported: $19.7M
total given: 2021–2023
filing years: $30,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2023. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

racial covid race effects economic social impact black

Funder website ↗Full IRS filings ↗How this is built Report an error

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.

Top recipients

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

Harvard University19 grants · $1.1M
University of Michigan20 grants · $916,646
New York University16 grants · $912,743
University of California Los Angeles14 grants · $839,195
Columbia University12 grants · $652,264
Brown University10 grants · $578,223
University of California Berkeley12 grants · $569,958
Boston University12 grants · $524,396
Stanford University10 grants · $495,075
University of Wisconsin Madison8 grants · $408,267

Giving over time

$6.1M

2021

$6.3M

2022

$7.3M

2023

Grant history

The 100 largest of 469 grants.

$199,096
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2023
Informing Overconfident and Insecure Job Seekers
$181,173
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023
How Social Media Influencers Shape the Politics of Young Adults
$176,777
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
The Geography of Race, Poverty, Crime, and Policing
$174,976
Social Science Research Council · Brooklyn, NY · 2021
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2022
$174,500
Washington University St Louis · Saint Louis, MO · 2021
National Study of Fear of Deportation: Wave 2
$166,553
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2022
Colleges and Upward Mobility in the US Over the Last Century
$164,485
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2021
The Origins and Effects of the Antiracism Uprisings of 2020
$146,742
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
PHLRentAssist-Direct Evaluation
$140,778
Rutgers University New Brunswick · New Brunswick, NJ · 2021
Police Exposure and Socioeconomic Well-being among African American men
$137,249
University of Oklahoma · Norman, OK · 2022
Backlash? Schooling Reassignments and the Politics of School Desegregation
$135,293
University of Mississippi · University, MS · 2022
Whiteness in Crisis?
$134,250
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Insurance in the Gig Economy
$133,824
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
The Effect of SNAP on Financial Health
$129,353
Drake University · Des Moines, IA · 2023
The inequities of unemployment
$125,057
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Using municipal land records to reconstruct the initial patterns and evol...
$123,724
New York University · New York, NY · 2021
Understanding and improving polarization on social media
$119,043
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2021
Changing Dominant Carceral Attitudes: A Deep Canvass Field Experiment
$118,031
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2021
The rise of punitive criminal justice policy in the wake of the Great Mig...
$117,604
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2022
Applying Behavioral Science to Improve Remote Working
$115,064
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2021
Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Financial Well-Being Disparities...
$115,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Reducing Racial Health Care Gaps via Physician Solidarity Signals
$114,578
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2021
Authoritarian Policing and Americas Incomplete Democratization
$113,016
University of Wisconsin Madison · Madison, WI · 2021
Inequalities in Financial Coping During the COVID-19 Crisis
$108,562
University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2021
Education and Financial Vulnerability across the Adult Life Course during...
$100,000
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Political Solidarity and Political Action Among People of Color
$100,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Evaluating the Role of Stigma as a Barrier to Take-up of Public Benefits
$100,000
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2022
Double Jeopardy
$99,999
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Evaluating the Role of Stigma as a Barrier to Take-up of Public Benefits
$99,841
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
Missing pieces in the puzzle
$99,840
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Missing pieces in the puzzle
$99,409
Boston College · Chestnut Hill, MA · 2023
Assessing the Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts of a Four Day W...
$99,409
Boston College · Chestnut Hill, MA · 2022
Assessing the Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts of a Four Day W...
$98,449
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Surveying Perceptions of Employment Discrimination
$98,448
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Surveying Perceptions of Employment Discrimination
$97,511
University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
The Geography of Race and Ethnicity in the United States
$97,420
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2021
Reducing Racial Polarization in Reactions to Police Use of Force
$96,943
University of Nebraska Lincoln · Lincoln, NE · 2023
The Parenthood Gap: Firms and Earnings Inequality After Kids
$96,496
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
A Data-Driven Study of Autopsies written for Non-Firearm Legal Interventi...
$96,495
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
A Data-Driven Study of Autopsies written for Non-Firearm Legal Interventi...
$96,326
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2023
Double Jeopardy
$95,790
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics (2022)
$95,094
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Why Prosecuting Nonviolent, Misdemeanor Offenses Yields Poorer Outcomes
$93,398
University of Maryland Baltimore County · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Racial Discrimination, Identity, Socialization and Civic Engagement among...
$91,434
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
How Do High-Achieving Low-Income Students Make Postsecondary Decisions? I...
$90,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2021
Demographic representation and income stratification in Puerto Rico
$88,788
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2021
Impacts of COVID-19 and the Unemployment Insurance System on Workers, Fir...
$88,568
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
The Segregation Lab: Building Research Capacity for Addressing Inequality
$88,346
University of Wisconsin Madison · Madison, WI · 2021
Baby's First Years: Mothers' Voices
$88,144
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
State-Level Safety Net Investments, Family Economic Well-Being and Childr...
$88,129
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2021
The Impact of Housing Vouchers on Social Service Usage, Health, and Well-...
$88,000
University of California Merced · Merced, CA · 2022
Immigrant Peers and the Short-Run Academic and Long-Run Outcomes of US-Bo...
$87,184
University of California Merced · Merced, CA · 2023
Immigrant Peers and the Short-Run Academic and Long-Run Outcomes of US-Bo...
$87,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
Asian Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic
$86,745
National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2021
Reducing Racial Inequalities in the Justice System
$85,881
Trinity University · San Antonio, TX · 2022
Can Education Fight Inherited Inequity? Using Administrative Data to Meas...
$85,000
Trinity University · San Antonio, TX · 2021
Can Education Fight Inherited Inequity? Using Administrative Data to Meas...
$84,997
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
Demographic representation and income stratification in Puerto Rico
$84,426
University of Wisconsin Madison · Madison, WI · 2022
Baby's First Years: Mothers' Voices
$83,785
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2021
Racial Inequality in Police Violence
$83,432
University of Denver · Denver, CO · 2021
Registering Returning Citizens to Vote
$82,898
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Enforcing Inequality
$82,867
National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2022
Policies to Reduce Intergenerational Poverty
$82,151
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Reskilling and Upskilling in the Workplace
$82,151
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Reskilling and Upskilling in the Workplace
$82,000
University of Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
A First Examination of Academic and Early-Career Outcomes of Refugee and ...
$80,965
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Emergency Education and Social Inequalities: Evidence from WWII in the U.S.
$80,407
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
The inequities of unemployment
$80,038
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2021
Organizational diversity, peer influences, and partisan effects in policing
$77,592
Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2021
Emergency Relief Fund for Undocumented and Low-Income Students
$76,392
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2021
Unintended Benefits of COVID-19? Impacts on Job Flexibility and the Gende...
$75,968
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Reducing Racial Disparities in Bail Decisions
$75,687
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Prosecutor-Driven Criminal Justice Reform and Socioeconomic Wellbeing
$75,498
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2022
Trajectories of Segregation in the U.S. Metropolis, 1900-1970
$75,167
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2022
Unintended Benefits of COVID-19? Impacts on Job Flexibility and the Gende...
$75,000
Arizona State University · Tempe, AZ · 2023
Youth Vote and Political Engagement in Unsettled Times
$75,000
Joan & Sanford I Weill Medical College of Cornell University · New York, NY · 2023
State recreational cannabis laws and racial disparities in the criminal j...
$75,000
University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Doing Well by Doing Good? Employee Hardship Funds, worker retention, and...
$75,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Equality vs. Equity by Social Vulnerability, Race, and Ethnicity
$75,000
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Displaceability by Design
$75,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
Equality vs. Equity by Social Vulnerability, Race, and Ethnicity
$74,966
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2023
Closing the Research Gap on the Social Costs of Incarceration by Extendin...
$74,932
University of North Carolina Charlotte · Charlotte, NC · 2022
Beyond Changing Minds
$74,877
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2022
The Assimilation Experiences of Unaccompanied Migrant and Orphaned Children
$74,800
Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2023
Social Capital & Early-Career Outcomes
$74,721
University of Alabama Tuscaloosa · Tuscaloosa, AL · 2023
Pay Your Debt? How Perceived Race and Deservingness Affect Moral Dilemmas...
$74,663
University of Massachusetts Amherst · Amherst, MA · 2023
How People of Color Respond to Narratives of Rising Diversity
$74,383
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2021
Trajectories of Segregation in the U.S. Metropolis, 1900-1970
$74,299
University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2022
Measuring and Understanding New Work and Displaced Work in the US
$74,298
University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2023
Measuring and Understanding New Work and Displaced Work in the US
$74,140
University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2021
Reuniting Families
$73,891
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022
The racial wealth gap, 1850-2020
$72,162
University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2022
Generating Evidence on the Impact of Cash Transfers for Rapid Rehousing C...
$72,161
University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2023
Generating Evidence on the Impact of Cash Transfers for Rapid Rehousing C...
$72,000
University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2023
Multilayered Exclusion, Interrupted Integration
$71,109
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2021
The racial wealth gap, 1850-2020
$70,000
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2022
Chilling Effects and Participation in Safety Net Programs among Children ...
$69,622
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2023
Chilling Effects and Participation in Safety Net Programs among Children ...
$69,509
New York University · New York, NY · 2021
Urban Flight and Avoidance in the 21st Century
$69,453
Indiana University Bloomington · Bloomington, IN · 2021
Representation, Responsiveness, and COVID-19
$69,379
Indiana University Bloomington · Bloomington, IN · 2022
Representation, Responsiveness, and COVID-19

View all 469 grants →

Who else funds this kind of work

Grants already paid are the record; PaperOrbit reads your paper and finds the funders whose record matches it — then explains why.

Search funders like this one

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.