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The Spencer Foundation: all 1,043 grants

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

$49,487
University of Vermont · Burlington, VT · 2024
Deaf adolescents language, identity, and social-emotional development
$49,426
The Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2023
Exploring "Local Backup" for Schools Targeted by the Anti-CRT "Conflict Campaigns"
$49,424
University of Maryland at College Park · College Park, MD · 2023
The Effect of Centralized-Admission School Lotteries on Between-School Segregation
$49,407
University of Hong Kong · 2024
Identifying conceptions of good citizenship
$49,398
Ithaca College · Ithaca, NY · 2022
Supporting teachers of English learners in rural Upstate New York
$49,396
Brac Independent Evaluation and Research Cell · 2022
Influencing education aspirations and gender attitudes through role models: Evidence from Somali schools
$49,328
Queen'S University Belfast · 2021
Foghlaim thumoideachais idirghluine: A study of family language development in Northern Ireland
$49,287
Loughborough University · 2021
Improving Conceptual Understanding of University Mathematics Through Comparing and Contrasting Students' Mathematical Writing
$49,258
Kabale University · 2022
Examining the relocation of the Batwa Indigenous people from the forests and its influence on their Indigenous Education, Customs and Cultures
$49,234
Texas a&M University · College Station, TX · 2022
Conducting Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses to Advance Racial Equity in Education: A Convening of the Minds
$49,221
The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2022
Against Racial Essentialism in Education Research: Innovating Methodologies through Contestation
$49,201
Ohio University · Athens, OH · 2024
Science teachers language ideologies and attitudes towards linguistic diversity
$49,196
Tufts University · Medford, MA · 2024
Enhance access to calculus
$49,116
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2022
Black to the Future: Fugitive Educational Possibilities in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic
$49,050
Institute for Fiscal Studies (Ifs) · 2022
Estimating classroom peer effects in Ecuadorian elementary schools
$49,016
Chapman University · Orange, CA · 2023
Precarity and Education: Examining the Experiences of Central American Unaccompanied Youth in California Public Schools
$48,902
Montclair State University · Montclair, NJ · 2024
Negotiations of policy in work with muslim youth
$48,862
University of Alabama · Tuscaloosa, AL · 2024
Assessing bayesian fit measures
$48,812
University of Wisconsin-Superior · Superior, WI · 2022
Ideologies, Perceptions, and Practices of Language Learning, Shift, and Identity in Bilingual Juchitain, Oaxaca: A Longitudinal Study
$48,805
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Freedom Dreaming: Black Communal and Familial Educational Practices in Pittsburgh's Hill District before, during and after COVID-19
$48,667
John Carroll University · University Heights, OH · 2023
Models of d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing characters in childrens literature
$48,545
University of Tasmania Foundation USA · New York, NY · 2022
Understanding the dynamic motivation of primary school language teachers: a qualitative network analysis
$48,510
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · Piscataway, NJ · 2021
Other Suns: Designing for Racial Equity through Speculative Education
$48,509
University of Edinburgh · 2022
Disrupting understandings of school disruption: What did we learn from COVID-19?
$48,490
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
History education in the social movement for racial justice
$48,422
Rhodes College · Memphis, TN · 2024
Bilingual book clubs
$48,360
Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2022
FRAME: Faculty Readiness for Antiracist Mathematics Education
$48,300
Universidad De Los Andes Chile · 2023
Visual and verbal rhetoric about teaching profession in Chile: a study on social representations about teachers
$48,219
Governing Council of the University of Toronto · 2021
Reconciliatory Education: Examining the new "First Voices" course
$48,013
Swarthmore College · Swarthmore, PA · 2021
Cultivating Communities Together: Examining and Supporting School+Community Collaboration
$47,940
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Banned scholars project
$47,699
Indiana Univeristy Bloomington · Bloomington, IN · 2023
Thriving in College: A National Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Students
$47,200
Micgill University · 2023
Participatory and Collaborative History Projects as Pathways for Knowledge Creation for Teaching and Learning Anti-Racism in Secondary Schools
$47,150
The Research Foundation for State University of New York On Behalf of the U · Amherst, NY · 2024
Examining the impact of anti-lgbtq+ education bills
$47,124
The Research Foundation for the State University of New York · Albany, NY · 2023
Excavating the Oral Histories of Black World Language Teachers
$46,989
Michigan State University · East Lansing, MI · 2021
Special Education in Indian Country: Challenges and Insights from Applying Indigenous Models of Disability in Schools
$46,786
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Transforming Educational Futures for Black, Latine, and Working-Class Communities: A PAR study of Abolition in Education Justice Movement Organizing
$46,751
University of Embu · 2021
Optimizing Parental Empowerment and Engagement in Early Childhood Development Education in Embu County, Kenya
$46,690
University of Iowa · Iowa City, IA · 2023
Scholarly Book Project on the History of Lyle Spencer
$45,668
Marquette University · Milwaukee, WI · 2022
Minoritized Adolescents Perspectives on Harm, Justice, and Discipline in their Schools: Building a Youth-Focused Understanding of the Developmental Influence of Restorative Justice
$45,577
University of Alabama · Tuscaloosa, AL · 2023
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies to Critique and Reimagine Teaching Qualitative Research
$45,250
Swinburne University of Technology · 2021
Studying Regionally: Experiences of University Students on Regional Campuses
$45,203
Instituto Rosario De Investigaciones En Ciencias De La Educacion (Irice) · 2023
Expanding Early Mathematics Knowledge in Indigenous Contexts. A Culturally-based Educational Program with Wichi Communities in Argentina
$45,000
Texas Tech University · Lubbock, TX · 2021
The Origins and Early Evolution of the SAT, 1926-1970
$45,000
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside · Riverside, CA · 2021
Evaluation of the Chicago Public Schools Civics Initiative - Year 4
$45,000
Utah Valley University · Orem, UT · 2021
Front-Line Students: A Study of Student Custodial Worker Learning During the Covid19 Pandemic
$44,778
University of Manchester · 2023
Research with and about International Students: A conference for critical conceptual and methodological considerations
$44,577
President and Trustees of Bates College · Lewiston, ME · 2021
Disappearing the Delta?: How school closures shape rural African-American communities in the Arkansas Delta
$44,297
The Regents of the University of California · Santa Barbara, CA · 2022
Disrupting Racism in Schools: A Mixed Methods Study of Educators Racial Dispositions and Organizational Change
$44,294
University of South Carolina · Columbia, SC · 2021
From 'Cash Cows' to 'Yellow Peril': Examining the Positioning of Asian International Students in the United States in Contentious Times
$43,954
Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia · Hayward, WI · 2021
Reclaiming Land and Languages Through Indigenous Community-Based Mobile Game Design
$43,916
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2021
Taking Stands and Transforming Stances: An Exploratory Study of Educators Evolving Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity as a Classroom Resource
$43,498
North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC · 2022
Conference on Rural English Learner Education and Research (CREER)
$43,423
Appalachian State University · Boone, NC · 2024
Visual narratives of safety and joy
$43,210
Southern Methodist University · Dallas, TX · 2021
Science Teachers' Experiences Learning about African American English (STELAAE)
$43,193
University of Wisconsin-Madison · Madison, WI · 2024
Youth writing for peace in colombia
$43,060
Centre for Lebanese Studies · 2023
Peasant Pedagogies: Khaduri School, Development, Philanthropy and Rural Capitals (1930 - 1993)
$42,801
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Infectious Lessons: Education and Epidemics in American History
$42,470
Institute of Labor Economics (Iza) · 2024
The effect of monetary transfers on standardized test performance
$42,469
Clemson University · Clemson, SC · 2024
Using an ecological framework to identify salient factors
$41,668
The Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2021
Rapid Research Grant with WT Grant: Research for Reimagining Community Safety
$40,895
University of Toronto · 2024
Inquiry of mandatory indigenous courses
$40,398
Research Foundation of Cuny On Behalf of Brooklyn College · New York, NY · 2023
Zones of Inequality: How Schools Shaped Modern Brooklyn
$40,000
Beloved Community · New Orleans, LA · 2024
Community based research activities
$40,000
The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Consortium Investor Council
$40,000
Chicago Architecture Center · Chicago, IL · 2022
Youth Education at CAC
$40,000
Grantmakers for Education · Portland, OR · 2022
Reimaging Learning
$40,000
The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Consortium Investor Council - Year #2
$40,000
The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Consortium Investor Council
$40,000
University of Oklahoma · Norman, OK · 2022
Beyond the Asterisk 10-Year Anniversary Writing Conference
$40,000
The Regents of the University of California at San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2021
Exploring local responses to 2021 efforts targeting antiracism and "CRT": A rapid response proposal
$39,000
Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2021
Reclaim, Redress, Reconnect: Towards a Theory and Practice of Restorative History
$38,908
Toronto Metropolitan University · 2023
Supporting the Creation of a New Professional Figure in Canadian Early Childhood Education: The Role of the Pedagogist
$38,416
University of Waikato · 2022
Is this a safe thing to do? Exploring schools uses of safety and the construction of citizens at risk
$38,146
President and Trustees of Bates College · Lewiston, ME · 2022
Disappearing the Delta?: How school closures shape rural African-American communities in the Arkansas Delta
$38,130
McGill University · 2024
Trauma, youth voices, and transnational chinese families in the u.s.
$38,000
Association for the Study of African American Life and History · Washington, DC · 2023
Support Teachers at the 108th ASALH
$38,000
Association for the Study of African American Life and History · Washington, DC · 2022
Engaging K-12 Educators in the Study of African American Life and History
$37,824
Loyola Marymount University · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Serving the Public Good: Exploring the Role of Minority Serving Institutions in the Civic Development of Racial/Ethnic Minoritized Students
$37,422
Universidad De Los Andes Chile · 2023
Intergenerational Transmission of Preferences for Higher Education and Gender Stereotypical Majors
$35,000
James B Hunt Jr Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy Foundation · Cary, NC · 2021
One Million Teachers of Color
$34,912
Bank Street College of Education · New York, NY · 2024
A summit on undergraduate pathways into education
$33,221
The Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2022
Children's Everyday Practices in Inclusive Transglossic Spaces: A Study of Collectivist Approaches to Deaf-Nondeaf Inclusive Bilingual Education in France
$32,118
North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC · 2024
Race, religion, and gender in the lives of black muslim college students
$31,727
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2021
Students versus Institutions: How Policymakers Distribute Funds to Higher Education during an Economic Recession
$31,000
Candid (Formerly the Foundation Center) · New York, NY · 2022
2022 General Support 2
$30,232
The Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2021
The Voices of Student Activists Who Moved A Nation: Documenting the Lessons of the Past Through Innovative Educational Research
$30,227
University of Connecticut · Storrs, CT · 2021
The Impact of Summer Mathematics on Low-Income Children's Achievement and Social-Behavioral Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis
$30,040
University of Wisconsin-Madison · Madison, WI · 2024
Disaster resilience in higher education
$30,000
The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Assessing the potential to disrupt disparities in stem education
$30,000
University of Central Arkansas Foundation · Conway, AR · 2022
Queering Education Research Institute Operating Expenses
$30,000
New Schools Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Racial Equity Funder Community of Practice
$28,600
Forefront (Fka Donors Forum) · Chicago, IL · 2024
2024 membership renewal
$28,481
Virginia Commonwealth University · Richmond, VA · 2022
Exploring Education for Providing LGBTQ+ -Affirming Mental Health Care in Alabama
$28,000
Alder Graduate School of Education · Redwood City, CA · 2021
2021 General Support
$27,750
Forefront · Chicago, IL · 2022
2023 Membership Dues
$26,883
University of California Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024
Public methodologies for reimagining histories
$26,500
Alder Graduate School of Education · Redwood City, CA · 2022
2022 General Support
$26,224
The Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2022
Innovations in Family Empowerment and Community Partnerships in Early Education: A Research Practice Policy Partnership in NYC
$25,870
The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2021
Policy Meets Urban Schooling: Black High School Students Educational Pathways Under the Missouri Transfer Law