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The Spencer Foundation: all 1,043 grants

Largest first · $93.9M across 2021–2024 · back to the overview

$114,205
Wake Forest University · Winston Salem, NC · 2023
Something Inside So Strong: Advancing Black and Hispanic Students' Reading Self-Efficacy, Leadership Development, and Community Engagement through CDF Freedom School Culturally Sustaining Academic Programming
$113,729
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024
The complex logics of childrearing
$111,390
Michigan State University · East Lansing, MI · 2023
Redesigning Virtual Schools as Networks of Care and Solidarity
$110,848
The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System · Madison, WI · 2021
Center for Ethics and Education: Graduate Institute in Philosophy of Education 2022-23
$109,878
Amplify Girls · Chattanooga, TN · 2024
Can mentoring improve adolescent girls' educational outcomes?
$109,175
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Education policies in a divided, multiracial democracy
$108,150
University of Massachusetts Boston · Boston, MA · 2023
Intersectional Organizing: Strategies for Cross-issue Solidarity in Educational and Social Justice Movements
$107,914
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
Cultivating Black autistic youth agency in the context of police encounters in schools and communities
$107,870
Adelphi University · Garden City, NY · 2023
Mapping school buildings using sensory ethnographic methods: A district-wide study of school architecture and spatial justice
$107,835
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2024
Waived english learners
$107,607
The Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2024
U.s. School boards
$107,160
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Redwood City, CA · 2021
Evaluation of a preschool socio-emotional curriculum: Testing effectiveness and drivers of change in a large, urban school district
$106,819
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Urbana, IL · 2023
Political Conocimiento in Teaching Mathematics: Preparing Teachers to Advocate for Students
$105,140
University of Miami · Coral Gables, FL · 2023
Strengthening the Miami-Dade Early Learning Partnership: IDEAS for Children
$105,072
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
Reclaiming Land and Languages Through Indigenous Community-Based Mobile Game Design
$103,114
Wayne State University · Detroit, MI · 2022
Reducing Chronic Absenteeism, Increasing Opportunity: A School Community Research Partnership to Improve Policy and Practice Related to attendance in Detroit.
$101,597
The Regents of the University of California · Irvine, CA · 2022
Urban Dual-Language Immersion and Linguistic Minority Students: Issues of Access and Inclusion
$100,551
Kansas State University · Manhattan, KS · 2023
The Tribal Education Department Capacity Building Project
$99,999
The Schott Foundation for Public Education · Quincy, MA · 2023
Education Justice Grassroots Data/Research Collaborative
$98,230
University of Saskatchewan · 2024
Transdisciplinary sustainability education
$96,600
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
Indigenous education salons
$96,600
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2022
Indigenous Education Salons
$95,633
Amplify Girls · Chattanooga, TN · 2022
Can mentoring improve adolescent girls' agency and educational outcomes A Cluster-Randomized Control Trial and Process Tracing Evaluation of the Binti Shupavu Project in Tanzania
$93,094
Universidad De La Sabana · 2022
Strengthening education in a rural community of former guerrilla members and their families: A participatory action research approach towards peace-building in Colombia
$92,164
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2021
Matching in Multilevel Contexts
$90,880
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Indigenous community-based mobile game design
$90,383
Humboldt State University Sponsored Programs Foundation · Arcata, CA · 2023
Renewed Approaches to Education: Expanding Na:tinixwe Indigenous Language Resurgence
$90,306
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2021
Race-based Biological Stress, Ethnic-Racial Identity, and Educational Outcomes: New Approaches to Studying Academic Achievement Gaps
$89,138
The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System · Madison, WI · 2022
Center for Ethics and Education: Graduate Institute in Philosophy of Education 2022-23
$87,701
Michigan State University · East Lansing, MI · 2023
Postsecondary Education: Autistic College Students Experiences of Success (PEACES)
$87,626
Adelphi University · Garden City, NY · 2024
Mapping school buildings
$87,170
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
A national study of black women academics health outcomes
$84,578
Amplify Girls · Chattanooga, TN · 2023
Can mentoring improve adolescent girls' agency and educational outcomes? A Cluster-Randomized Control Trial and Process Tracing Evaluation of the Binti Shupavu Project in Tanzania
$83,014
University of Connecticut · Storrs, CT · 2024
School integration in a multiracial democracy
$82,882
Universidad De La Sabana · 2021
Strengthening education in a rural community of former guerrilla members and their families: A participatory action research approach towards peace-building in Colombia
$79,749
The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2024
Peer social networks and early language development
$79,118
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
Human learning and social change
$79,112
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
Reclaiming Land and Languages Through Indigenous Community-Based Mobile Game Design
$78,636
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023
Project Civic LeAdS: Enhancing Civic Engagement of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families and Students with Disabilities: Legislative Advocacy in Special Education
$77,148
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
Racial identity and cross-generational support
$76,375
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2021
Structure-Agency in Special Education: A multilevel qualitative study of the implementation of inclusion
$76,368
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2023
Addressing the (In)Visibility of Asian American Teachers: Racial Identity and Cross-Generational Support
$75,000
Boston College · Chestnut Hill, MA · 2024
Transformation of measures
$75,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024
Edresearch for action writers fellowship
$75,000
California Community Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Purpose of education
$75,000
Chicago State Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
Illinois center for education equity
$75,000
Drew University · Madison, NJ · 2024
African-american students explorations of black identity development
$75,000
Howard University · Washington, DC · 2024
Hbcu education deans summit
$75,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Advanced institute in critical quantitative, computational and mixed methodology
$75,000
Naacp Empowerment Programs · Baltimore, MD · 2024
70th anniversary of brown v. Board of education
$75,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
Community-research collaborative
$75,000
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
Indigenous education initiative
$75,000
Regents of the University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Community asset mapping
$75,000
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · Piscataway, NJ · 2024
Ecological knowledge to inform climate justice education
$75,000
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · Piscataway, NJ · 2024
Community-based curriculum collectives
$75,000
Stanford University · Redwood City, CA · 2024
Examining course taking
$75,000
Texas a&M University · College Station, TX · 2024
Girls' education ecosystems in india
$75,000
The New Press · New York, NY · 2024
Reimagining education
$75,000
The Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2024
Connecting interdisciplinary experts
$75,000
The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
School organization and support in times of political crisis
$75,000
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
Dialogues on policy
$75,000
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
Enhancing the capacity of higher education professionals
$75,000
University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Transforming higher education systems
$75,000
University of California Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024
Farmworker community education
$75,000
University of Massachusetts Amherst · Amherst, MA · 2024
Production and use of educational data
$75,000
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Enhancing collaborative research
$75,000
University of New Hampshire · Durham, NH · 2024
Transforming literacy
$75,000
University of San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Culture wars, curriculum conflicts & public schools
$75,000
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Harnessing housing policies
$75,000
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Connecting eviction-prevention policies and school practices
$75,000
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2024
Coordinating mental health supports
$75,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
Ai practices in education settings
$75,000
Women Leading Ed · Matthews, NC · 2024
Support for women leading ed
$75,000
Appleseed Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
Appleseed Collaborative Project on School Integration
$75,000
California Association of African American Superintendents and Administrato · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Meeting the Promise of Brown: 70 Years Later, What Have We Learned from the Landmark Supreme Court Ruling?
$75,000
Children'S Hospital of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Teachers as Change Agents in Addressing Racial and Intersectional Microaggressions in School Settings
$75,000
Friends of Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Edmund W. Gordon Intellective and Logistical Support
$75,000
Justice and Joy National Collaborative · Portland, OR · 2023
"We Need New Structures": Critical Mental Health Conversation Spaces for Girls and Gender Expansive Youth of Color to Envision Better Futures
$75,000
Kansas State University · Manhattan, KS · 2023
Visioning and Nurturing our Professional Ecosystems: Exploring Design and Impact of Indigenous Educator Training Programs for Healthy, Thriving Futures
$75,000
Learning Policy Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Preparing Culturally Sustaining and Responsive Teachers
$75,000
Lesley University · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Resisting Curriculum Erasure: Amplify Asian American Voices in Early Childhood Education through a Participatory Design of an Anti-Racist Biliteracy Curriculum
$75,000
Lewis University · Romeoville, IL · 2023
Voices of Reason y Resistencia: Migrant Youth Enacting Participatory Action
$75,000
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2023
Developing a Community-Driven, Culturally Responsive-Sustaining, and Expansive Computer Science Ecosystems in Chicago and Beyond
$75,000
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2023
Understanding the Production of Racial & Linguistic Ability Stratification: A Blueprint for Systemic Transformation
$75,000
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2023
Culturally Relevant and Responsive Elementary STEM Education: Supporting Preservice Teachers Development
$75,000
Tufts University · Medford, MA · 2023
Automated Equity Reports for Supporting Equitable Learning Outcomes in Teamwork Pedagogies in STEM
$75,000
University of British Columbia · 2023
Building Native Language Teacher Proficiency and Fluency for Hawaiian and CHamoru Language Medium Education P-20+
$75,000
University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2023
Moving Beyond the Binary: Re-Conceptualizing School Integration
$75,000
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Race, Gender, and Place: An Exploration of Social and Environmental Factors "Beyond the Schoolhouse" As They Relate to Academic Disparities
$75,000
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Examining, Disrupting, and Transforming Inequitable Postsecondary Science Degree Trajectories for Rural Students Using Participatory Action Research
$75,000
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
National DEI Defense Commission
$75,000
University of Texas at San Antonio · San Antonio, TX · 2023
Challenging Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Textbook Reform, and Archive Preservation
$75,000
Washington State University · Pullman, WA · 2023
Re-centering Indigenous Concepts of Educational Success to Promote Systemic Change
$75,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
Transforming the Discourse for Equity in Early Childhood Education: Reimagining Curriculum and Pedagogies and Young Children as Capable
$75,000
Barnard College Columbia University · New York, NY · 2022
Disrupting Dispossession: Teaching Palestine in Exile, 1975-1995
$75,000
Colorado State University · Fort Collins, CO · 2022
Do We Really Matter? Unpacking Servingness and College Transfer Receptive Cultures through a Racial Lens for Undocumented and DACA Latinx Students at Hispanic Serving Institutions.
$75,000
Equal Opportunity Schools · Seattle, WA · 2022
Measures that Matter Conference
$75,000
Fund for Independent Publishing · New York, NY · 2022
Imagining Indigenous Education Futures Book Project
$75,000
Montclair State University · Montclair, NJ · 2022
The Role of Advanced-Level Mathematics Course Availability and Gentrification on Latinx Postsecondary STEM Enrollment
$75,000
National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2022
The Future of Education Research at IES: Advancing an EquityOriented Science Symposium Event Fall 2022