The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
Supporting research
to improve the lives
of young people
Focus Areas
Our Work • Focus Area
Reducing inequality in youth outcomes
We believe that it is time to build stronger bodies of knowledge on how to reduce inequality in the United States and to move beyond the mounting research evidence about the scope, causes, and consequences of inequality.
Our Work • Focus Area
Improving the use of research evidence in decisions affecting young people
We want to know what it takes to produce useful research evidence, what it takes to get research used, and what happens when research is used.
Funding
Opportunities
Grant Programs
The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas.
Status:
Closed
Next Deadline:
TBD
The next competition will open in March 2025.
This program supports activities to improve the quality of existing youth services by helping nonprofit organizations in New York City address challenges or remedy problems at the point of service, where staff and youth interact.
Status:
Closed
Next Deadline:
TBD
Dates and details for the 2025 competition will be published in in January 2025.
This program funds research studies that aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States
Status:
Closed
Next Deadline:
TBD
2025 application dates will be posted in November 2024.
This program funds studies that examine ways to improve the use of research evidence by policymakers, agency leaders, organizational managers, intermediaries, and other decision-makers that shape youth-serving systems in the United States.
Status:
Closed
Next Deadline:
TBD
2025 application dates will be posted in November 2024.
The Institutional Challenge Grant supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.
Status:
Closed
Next Deadline:
TBD
Dates for the 2025 competition will be announced in early 2025
The Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants (YSCG) program supports activities to strengthen the organizational infrastructure of small nonprofit organizations in the five boroughs of New York City that provide direct services to young people ages 5 to 25. The YSCG program is aligned …
Status:
Closed
Next Deadline:
TBD
Dates for the 2025 competition will be announced in summer 2025.
“Effective programs and policies can enhance young people’s lives, and social science research can help us understand, build, and improve those that work best.”
Adam Gamoran, President