The Research Grants 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.
Donor Name: William T. Grant Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/07/2025
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 4 Years
Details:
This program funds research studies that advance theory and build empirical knowledge on ways to improve the use of research evidence by policymakers, agency leaders, organizational managers, intermediaries, community organizers, and other decision-makers that shape youth-serving systems in the United States.
Proposed studies must pursue one of the following aims:
- Building, identifying, or testing strategies to improve the use of existing research evidence
- Testing whether strategies that improve the use of research evidence in turn improve decision-making and youth outcomes.
Funding Information
- Major research grants: $100,000–$1,000,000 over 2–4 years, including up to 15% indirect costs.
- Officers’ research grants: $25,000–$50,000 over 1–2 years, including up to 15% indirect costs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Organizations
- The Foundation makes grants only to tax-exempt organizations. They do not make grants to individuals.
- Foundation encourages proposals from organizations that are under-represented among grantee institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Alaska NativeServing Institutions, Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions, and Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions.
- Eligible Principal Investigators
- The Foundation defers to the applying organization’s criteria for who is eligible to act as a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on a grant. In general, they expect that all investigators will have the experience and skills to carry out the proposed work.
- Foundation strives to support a diverse group of researchers in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, and seniority, and they encourage research projects led by Black or African American, Indigenous, Latinx, and/or Asian or Pacific Islander American researchers.
- Eligible Studies
- Only studies that 1) align with the stated research interests of this program and 2) relate to the outcomes of young people between the ages of 5 and 25 in the United States are eligible for consideration.
- Foundation does not support non-research activities such as program implementation and operational costs, or make contributions to building funds, fundraising drives, endowment funds, general operating budgets, or scholarships. Applications for ineligible projects are screened out without further review.
Deadlines
- Major Research Grants: 7 May, 2025.
- Officers’ Research Grants: 8 August, 2025.
For more information, visit William T. Grant Foundation.
