Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence, William T. Grant Foundation

Funding Opportunity posted by Nia Smith

Thu Dec 11, 2025

Description:

Major Research Grants: $100,000 to $1,000,000 over 2-4 years, including up to 15% indirect costs

Officers' Research Grants: $25,000 to $50,000 over 1-2 years, including up to 15% indirect costs

This program supports research on strategies focused on improving the use, usefulness, and impact of evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We welcome impact studies that test strategies for improving research use as well as whether improving research use leads to improved youth outcomes. We also welcome descriptive studies that reveal the strategies, mechanisms, or conditions for improving research use. Finally, we welcome measurement studies that explore how to construct and implement valid and reliable measures of research use.

We seek proposals for studies that advance theory and build empirical knowledge on ways to improve the use of research evidence by policymakers, public agency leaders, organizational managers, intermediaries, community organizers, and other decision-makers that generally shape youth-serving systems in the United States.