Research Grants on Reducing Inequality, William T. Grant Foundation
Funding Opportunity posted by Nia Smith
Description:
Major Research Grants: $100,000 to $600,000 over 2-3 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
Our research interests center on studies that examine ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. We fund research studies that examine 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, among dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, sexual or gender minority status (e.g. LGBTQ+ youth), language minority status, or immigrant origins. We welcome descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality or elucidate how or why a specific program, policy, or practice operates to reduce inequality. We also welcome intervention studies that examine attempts to reduce inequality.
We invite studies from a range of disciplines, fields, and methods, and we encourage investigations into various youth-serving systems, including justice, housing, child welfare, mental health, and education.
Recognizing that findings about programs and practices that reduce inequality will have limited societal impact until the structures that create inequality in the first place have been transformed, the Foundation is particularly interested in research to uproot systemic racism and the structural foundations of inequality that limit the life chances of young people.
Closing Date
Jan 7, 2026