Funding Opportunities

Our current programs support high-quality research studies in our focus areas, career-development awards for promising early-career faculty, grants that encourage research institutions to make structural changes that encourage engaged research, and programs of good-neighbor grants that support nonprofit youth service providers in New York City.

Current Opportunities

Grant Programs

Funding

Institutional Challenge Grant – Funding

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 and details for the 2024 competition will be published in April 2024.

Funding

Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence – Funding

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:

Open

Open date:

November 9, 2023

Next Deadline:

January 10, 2024 3:00 pm EST

Funding

Research Grants on Reducing Inequality – Funding

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:

Open

Open date:

November 9, 2023

Next Deadline:

January 10, 2024 3:00 pm EST

Funding

William T. Grant Scholars Program – Funding

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

Dates and details for the 2024 competition will be published in early 2024.

Funding

Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants – Funding

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 and details for the 2024 competition will be published in summer 2024.

Funding

Youth Service Improvement Grants – Funding

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 2024 competition will be published in January 2024.

Youth Service Improvement Grants – Funding

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.