Russell Sage Foundation

Historical Funder

New York, New York · EIN 13-1635303 · Private foundation · Website

Grants paid (2024)$6.4M

Organizations funded137

Typical grant$37,500

Total assets$492.6M

Half of its grants to organizations were between $16,771 and $74,973.

From the return

How to apply

The foundation filed the following application information (Form 990-PF Part XV, tax year 2024):

Contact	RSF PROGRAMS DEPT
Address	112 E 64TH STREET, NEW YORK NY 100657307
Phone	2127506000
Email	PROGRAMS@RSAGE.ORG
Form and materials	CHECK THE FOUNDATION'S WEBSITE FOR FORMS, DEADLINES AND RESTRICTIONS.
Deadlines	SEE (B) ABOVE.
Restrictions	SEE (B) ABOVE.

Copied as filed. Deadlines on a tax return describe the foundation's usual process; they are not confirmation of a current open cycle.

What it funds

Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.

Education47
Health5
Housing5
Human Services4
Children & Youth2
Community Development2

Where it gives

83% of grants went outside New York.

Grants paid in tax year 2024

Recipient	Location	Purpose	Amount
North Carolina State University	Raleigh, NC	Police exposure and socioeconomic well-being among african american men	$117,364
Brookings Institution	Washington, DC	Can transfer pathways promote diversity after the 2023 supreme court deci...	$109,000
National Academy of Sciences	Washington, DC	Global forced migration and u.s. resettlement	$100,000
Stanford University	Stanford, CA	A public platform for open mixed-methods research	$100,000
University of California Los Angeles	Los Angeles, CA	Political solidarity and political action among people of color	$100,000
George Washington University	Washington, DC	How does application assistance affect the receipt of unemployment benefi...	$99,996
University of Chicago	Chicago, IL	How homeownership stabilizes and destabilizes womens lives	$99,036
New York University	New York, NY	Bay area thriving families: qualitative assessment	$98,816
Syracuse University	Syracuse, NY	Growing up in court	$98,512
University of California San Diego	LA Jolla, CA	The geography of race and ethnicity in the united states	$97,511
Arizona State University	Tempe, AA	Building a qualitative data infrastructure on how guns shape political life	$96,355
Stanford University	Stanford, CA	The great work from home divide	$96,291
University of California Berkeley	Berkeley, CA	Long run impacts of women's education	$95,459
Utah State University	Logan, UT	Community impacts of immigration enforcement	$94,843
Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MD	How do high-achieving low-income students make postsecondary decisions? I...	$91,433
Colby College	Waterville, ME	Rural work, precarity and resilience	$91,253
Cornell University	Ithaca, NY	Socioeconomic and racial disparities in drivers license suspension	$86,902
University of California Berkeley	Berkeley, CA	Geographic and neighborhood differences in intergenerational earnings mob...	$86,250
Cornell University	Ithaca, NY	The context and life course of racial/ethnic identities among multiracial...	$83,519
Brown University	Providence, RI	Estimating the experience of a worker's first job	$83,396
University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, MN	Enforcing inequality	$82,898
University of Houston	Houston, TX	A first examination of academic and early-career outcomes of refugee and ...	$81,395
University of California Los Angeles	Los Angeles, CA	Emergency education and social inequalities: evidence from wwii in the u.s.	$80,964
Environmental Defense Fund	Washington, DC	Inequities in the distribution of mortgage distress following flood events	$78,010
American University	Washington, DC	Escape from the criminal state	$75,000
Georgia Tech Research Corporation	Atlanta, GA	The effects of diaper taxes on maternal employment	$75,000
Graduate Center City University of New York	New York, NY	Public opinion and new yorks asylum crisis	$75,000
Joan & Sanford I Weill Medical College of Cornell University	New York, NY	State recreational cannabis laws and racial disparities in the criminal J...	$75,000
University at Albany State University of New York	Albany, NY	Anti-Immigrant policies, rhetoric and violence in a new destination ethni...	$75,000
University of Chicago	Chicago, IL	Complements to work: childcare subsidies and female labor supply	$75,000
University of Miami	Coral Gables, FL	Forty acres and a mule: local reparations policies in comparative perspective	$75,000
University of South Florida Research Foundation Inc	Tampa, FL	Place-, home-making, and incorporation after post-disaster migration	$75,000
University of Southern California	Los Angeles, CA	The labor market impacts of remote work	$75,000
Baruch College City University of New York	New York, NY	Post-Deportation experiences in el salvador: a family communication approach	$74,984
Northeastern University	Boston, MA	The consequences of expungement policy on immigration outcomes	$74,973
University of Massachusetts Amherst	Amherst, MA	Understanding the voices of an increasingly diverse electorate through th...	$74,900
University of Tennessee Knoxville	Knoxville, TN	Legal representation in eviction court	$74,800
University of Massachusetts Amherst	Amherst, MS	Evolution, pathways, and behavioral patterns of the economic elite	$74,676
Boston College	Chestnut Hill, MA	How much do older workers value retiree health insurance?	$71,733
Chapman University	Orange, CA	Polarization and partisan norms	$71,200
University of Texas at Austin	Austin, TX	Evaluating the impact of investor ownership of childcare centers	$69,999
University of California Irvine	Irvine, CA	Inheriting good credit	$69,360
Stanford University	Stanford, CA	The g.i. bill and black-white wealth disparities	$66,197
University of California Berkeley	Berkeley, CA	How sponsors legal status and relationship to children shape unaccompani...	$66,000
University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA	Individual worker-owner census	$64,705
Stanford University	Stanford, CA	Beyond representation	$63,718
Brown University	Providence, RI	Climate politics as status politics	$61,233
College of William and Mary	Williamsburg, VA	The long-run impacts of zoning the suburbs	$57,163
University of California Riverside	Riverside, CA	Immigration and education: early insights from the buslift to NYC	$55,592
University of California San Diego	LA Jolla, CA	Unequal treatment or unequal opportunity? employer and location effects I...	$53,754
University of Texas Arlington	Arlington, TX	Urban braceros	$52,340
Columbia University	New York, NY	Racialized and gendered evaluations of remote work	$50,000
Miami University	Oxford, OH	Abortion access and inequalities in education and labor market outcomes	$50,000
State University of New York at Buffalo	Albany, NY	School-To-Work transitions for young adults during the covid-19 pandemic	$50,000
University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA	Racial bias and societal outcomes: can minority media representation help?	$50,000
Clark Atlanta University	Atlanta, GA	Through a du boisian lens-informing public policy through empirical socia...	$49,967
Middlebury College	Middlebury, VT	Improving labor conditions for healthcare workers	$48,459
Vanderbilt University	Nashville, TN	Creating a nuisance? housing nuisance ordinances and their impacts on stu...	$46,903
Boston University	Boston, MS	21St century justice: the struggle to decarcerate in the u.s. states	$45,931
University of Texas at Austin	Austin, TX	Policing socio-geographic change and displacement	$44,607

Showing the 60 largest of 137 grants to organizations.

Grants approved for future payment

Recipient	Location	Purpose	Amount
Northwestern University	Evanston, IL	Does a universal ethnic-racial identity intervention promote psychosocial...	$200,000
University of California Berkeley	Berkeley, CA	Behavioral inequality	$200,000
George Washington University	Washington, DC	The perils and promise of living together	$199,923
University of Rhode Island	Kingston, RI	Does the alleviation of criminal legal debt end the cycle of punishment	$199,897
University of California Los Angeles	Los Angeles, CA	Using longitudinal worker and firm data to measure the impact of ai-drive...	$179,417
Wellesley College	Wellesley, MA	State minimum wages: long-term impacts on the job quality of low wage workers	$144,005
University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, PA	Is police use of force contagious? the role of social networks to explain...	$108,928
National Academy of Sciences	Washington, DC	Global forced migration and u.s. resettlement	$100,000
Stanford University	Stanford, CA	A public platform for open mixed-methods research	$100,000
University of Chicago	Chicago, IL	Impacts of demand-driven workforce development	$100,000
George Washington University	Washington, DC	How does application assistance affect the receipt of unemployment benefi...	$99,996
University of Chicago	Chicago, IL	How homeownership stabilizes and destabilizes womens lives	$99,035
New York University	New York, NY	Bay area thriving families: qualitative assessment	$98,816
Syracuse University	Syracuse, NY	Growing up in court	$98,512
University of Nebraska Lincoln	Lincoln, NE	The parenthood gap: firms and earnings inequality after kids	$96,942
Arizona State University	Tempe, AZ	Building a qualitative data infrastructure on how guns shape political life	$96,355
Stanford University	Stanford, CA	The great work from home divide	$96,290
University of California Berkeley	Berkeley, CA	Long run impacts of women's education	$95,458
Utah State University	Logan, UT	Community impacts of immigration enforcement	$94,843
University of Texas at Austin	Austin, TX	Policing socio-geographic change and displacement	$93,568
Colby College	Waterville, ME	Rural work, precarity and resilience	$91,253
Brown University	Providence, RI	State-Level safety net investments, family economic well-being and childr...	$88,143
Cornell University	Ithaca, NY	Socioeconomic and racial disparities in drivers license suspension	$86,902
University of California Berkeley	Berkeley, CA	Geographic and neighborhood differences in intergenerational earnings mob...	$86,250
Cornell University	Ithaca, NY	The context and life course of racial/ethnic identities among multiracial...	$83,519
Brown University	Providence, RI	Estimating the experience of a worker's first job	$83,395
Environmental Defense Fund	Washington, DC	Inequities in the distribution of mortgage distress following flood events	$78,009
University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, PA	Prosecutor-Driven criminal justice reform and socioeconomic wellbeing	$75,686
Boston University	Boston, MA	Do employment dynamics explain the black-white earnings gap?	$75,000
Colorado State University Fort Collins	Fort Collins, CO	Understanding the impact of the 2023 supreme court decision to ban race-c...	$75,000
Cornell University	Ithaca, NY	Using machine learning to analyze equity in parole-release decisions	$75,000
Duke University	Durham, NC	Records of exclusion: chinese immigration in historical perspective	$75,000
Harvard University	Cambridge, MA	Understanding college decision-making among delayed beginners, stopouts,...	$75,000
New York University	New York, NY	The effects of the 2023 supreme court ruling to ban race-conscious admiss...	$75,000
Purdue University	West Lafayette, IN	The whiteness of ai and its implications for employment outcomes	$75,000
Yale University	New Haven, CT	How couples remote work and schedule control shape work and family time	$75,000
University of Virginia	Charlottesville, VA	Public sector collective bargaining after the covid-19 pandemic	$74,987
Georgetown University	Washington, DC	Reducing inequality in academic outcomes with a meal program	$74,585
University of Toronto	Toronto,	Intellectual humility intervention experiment and intervention design tou...	$74,010
Princeton University	Princeton, NJ	Assessing identity as constraint on democratic accountability	$74,000
University of Colorado Denver	Denver, CO	The intergenerational effects of import competition	$73,136
Cornell University	Ithaca, NY	Analog trades in a digital world	$71,563
University of California Irvine	Irvine, CA	Inheriting good credit	$69,359
University of California Berkeley	Berkeley, CA	How sponsors legal status and relationship to children shape unaccompani...	$66,092
University of Maryland College Park	College Park, MD	Weve got you covered: employer and employee responses to dobbs V. jackson	$65,000
American Political Science Association	Washington, DC	American political science association doctoral dissertation research imp...	$50,000
Arizona State University	Tempe, AZ	Law and science dissertation grant (lsdg) program	$50,000
Middlebury College	Middlebury, VT	Improving labor conditions for healthcare workers	$48,458
Pomona College	Claremont, CA	Justice for janitors, the "new south", and the future of labor	$48,036
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University	Greensboro, NC	Nationality-By-Origin, citizenship status, and judicial decision-making I...	$46,500
Research Foundation of the City University of New York	New York, NY	Understanding the migrant situation in new york city	$46,500
Temple University	Philadelphia, PA	Between borders in a carceral age	$42,500
Washington Center for Equitable Growth	Washington, DC	Tracking generative ai adoption at work	$40,000
Brookings Institution	Washington, DC	Can transfer pathways promote diversity after the 2023 supreme court deci...	$39,106
Brooklyn College City University of New York	New York, NY	What is diversity for? examining the links between diversity rationales, ...	$39,000
Queens College City University of New York	New York, NY	The fight for quality of life	$39,000
University of Chicago	Chicago, IL	A welcoming city? the reception of asylum-seekers in chicago	$38,000
Duke University	Durham, NC	The impacts of non-shooting, gun incidents on public school students	$37,589
Columbia University	New York, NY	Can we talk about race and racism on social media? evidence from a feed E...	$37,500
National Academy of Sciences	Washington, DC	Federal policy impacts on child poverty	$37,500

Giving by year

Tax year	Grants paid	Grant lines
2024	$6,412,899	220
2023	$7,280,552	254
2022	$6,343,919	254

Sources

IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Jul 8, 2026 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202621899349100517
IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 13-1635303
Profile updated Nov 4, 2026

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