Grant Announcements
We are delighted to announce that this year, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Bezos Family Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and Spencer Foundation have joined us to award $2.6 million in...
Grant Announcements
The Foundation is delighted to announce the newest class of William T. Grant Scholars: Tolani Britton, in the school of education at the University of California, Berkeley James Chu,in the...
Grant Announcements
"Collaborations between research and policy partners—like the ones forged by these grantees—have a critical role to play in advancing policies that can reduce inequality in youth outcomes."
From the Field
"The rapidity, constancy, and mean-spiritedness of the moment is demoralizing. We would be well advised to look to history for guidance."
Grantee Voices
How do we repair the relationships that hold together urban communities?
Applicant Guidance
We encourage researchers studying ways to improve outcomes for LGBTQ+ youth within family, school, state, and other contexts to apply for our funding.
Grantee Voices
Can improving families’ material conditions through cash transfers help prevent instances of child maltreatment?
The William T. Grant Foundation Digest is home to insights, findings, and analysis from program staff, grantees, and researchers in the field. Browse these collections to read about issues and questions in our focus areas, what we’re learning, and where new research is needed.
Latest Issue
Issue 11: Winter 2025-26
Research can illuminate the strategies civil society organizations have adopted on behalf of immigrant youth and investigate how these supports can reduce long-term inequality.
Issue 11: Winter 2025-26
At a time when immigrant youth face widening inequities and shifting policy environments, safe-zone schools illustrate how local institutions can protect and advance vulnerable students.
Issue 11: Winter 2025-26
With the courts serving as a space than can reduce or exacerbate youth inequity, studies can illuminate strategies to improve the use of research evidence in the courts to inform youth-related court rulings.
Issue 11: Winter 2025-26
We need studies to cultivate routine use of high-quality research in legal decision-making, rigorous tests to examine the effectiveness of these strategies, and causal assessments of whether increased research use translate to better youth outcomes eventually.
Issue 10: Winter 2024-25
From the point of application through the post-award review process, we seek to ensure that all who interact with the Foundation receive guidance and feedback that will move their research forward.
Issue 10: Winter 2024-25
Research to identify youth's participation in social movements and understand its connection to outcomes can help address some of the most pressing inequalities facing young people today.
