William T Grant Foundation Inc
Historical FunderNew York, New York · EIN 13-1624021 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$17.7M
Organizations funded159
Typical grant$79,025
Total assets$420M
Half of its grants to organizations were between $30,000 and $168,791.
From the return
How to apply
The foundation filed the following application information (Form 990-PF Part XV, tax year 2024):
| Contact | ROSANNA AYBAR |
|---|---|
| Address | 60 E 42ND STREET 43RD FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 101650047 |
| Phone | 2127520071 |
| Form and materials | APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED THROUGH THE FOUNDATION'S ONLINE APPLICATION SYSTEM AT WTG.SMARTSIMPLE.COM |
| Deadlines | SEE HTTP://WTGRANTFOUNDATION.ORG/FUNDING |
| Restrictions | THE FOUNDATION DOES NOT FUND GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT, SERVICE EXPANSION OR PROGRAM GROWTH, BUILDING CAMPAIGNS, SCHOLARSHIPS, ENDOWMENTS, LOBBYING, OR AWARDS TO INDIVIDUALS. THE EXCEPTION TO THIS IS THE YOUTH SERVICE CAPACITY-BUILDING GRANTS. CAPACITY-BUILDING NEEDS MAY INCLUDE: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, BOARD RECRUITMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, STAFF TRAINING, FUNDRAISING, STRATEGIC PLANNING, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNICATIONS, AND EVALUATION SYSTEMS. BOTH THE YOUTH SERVICE CAPACITY-BUILDING GRANTS AND YOUTH SERVICE IMPROVEMENT GRANTS ARE LIMITED TO ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING SERVICES TO YOUTH IN THE FIVE BOROUGHS OF NEW YORK. |
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What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
78% of grants went outside New York.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Urban Institute | Washington, DC | Redesigning the child tax credit to reduce economic inequality: changes to benefits and administration | $497,580 |
| Santa Clara University | Santa Clara, CA | Strengthening a holistic, community-based pre-collegiate and collegiate support system to enhance college matriculation, persistence, and… | $429,750 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | Improving the use of research evidence in multilingual learner policy and practice: research-practice partnership engagement with state… | $426,494 |
| Philanthropy New York | New York, NY | Scholars retreat and meeting on mentoring and career development through fiscal sponsor philanthropy new york | $410,006 |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | The promise of marijuana legalization to reduce racial disparities in youth legal system contact in new jersey | $400,219 |
| National Summer Learning Association | Washington, DC | Institutional challenge grant convening 2024 and reducing inequality convening 2025 | $360,000 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | Community-Driven, technology-guided school rezoning to reduce economic segregation | $323,150 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | A networked improvement community approach to equitable literacy in urban schools | $309,912 |
| University of South Florida | Tampa, FL | Utilizing discrete event simulation (des) to improve the use and relevance of research evidence to inform school mental health services | $305,892 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Boulder, CO | Embedding research into organizational routines to deepen the use of evidence | $299,266 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | Understanding the potential of youth participatory action research to improve african american youth mental health outcomes | $298,327 |
| New York University | New York, NY | Directing change: a novel approach to addressing disparities in suicidal behaviors among latinx and lgbtq+ youth | $283,819 |
| William Marsh Rice University | Houston, TX | Brokering activities and outcomes among embedded versus informal liaisons in education research-practice partnerships | $267,763 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | How can state governments most effectively use research evidence when deciding how to spend tax dollars? | $259,573 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | Improving the use of research evidence to reduce child and youth opioid-related trauma: developing and testing a reflective decision… | $232,013 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | The delaware early literacy research-practice partnership: catalyzing educational equality | $230,260 |
| Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | State-Level interrupted time series of the family impact seminars: a national infrastructure for improving the use of research evidence | $227,305 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska for the University of Nebras | Omaha, NE | An online family-based program to reduce inequity among sexual and gender minority youth of color | $224,231 |
| University of Illinois Chicago | Chicago, IL | Interrogating successive school discipline reforms as levers for promoting racial equity | $221,465 |
| University of California | Santa Cruz, CA | Youth and undergraduate transformation to harness community change (youth-c2) | $217,120 |
| University of Illinois Chicago | Chicago, IL | C2-Principal preparation | $216,572 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Reducing harm from structural xenophobia for reproductive equity | $215,979 |
| American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences | Arlington, VA | A study on the corequisite model in the kentucky community and technical college system (kctcs) | $211,588 |
| University of Illinois Urbana | Urbana, IL | Unconditional cash transfers and child maltreatment | $209,084 |
| Mdrc | New York, NY | The role of community college interventions in reducing racial inequality in students academic progress | $200,615 |
| University of North Carolina at Greensboro | Greensboro, NC | One talk at a time: a racial-ethnic socialization intervention for diverse families to reduce psychosocial inequalities | $200,136 |
| Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | States as laboratories: experimental trial of the research-to-policy collaboration to improve states use of evidence to benefit youth | $200,000 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | Reducing inequalities in opportunities to learn mathematics through adaptive teacher professional development | $197,913 |
| Wayne State University | Fort Wayne, IN | How do mixed-income neighborhood initiatives reduce educational inequality for low-income black youth? | $196,802 |
| University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | Bridging institutions to close youth opportunity gaps | $194,168 |
| The Pew Charitable Trusts | Philadelphia, PA | Transforming evidence network | $192,875 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | What drives racial/ethnic disparities in school discipline? understanding mechanisms to inform policy solutions | $192,101 |
| University of California Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | Microecological influences of supervision on ure in childrens mental health: secondary analysis of the child steps in california randomized… | $188,656 |
| University of California Irvine | Irvine, CA | Reducing inequalities for immigrant, multilingual students in secondary schools | $185,829 |
| Florida State University Research Foundation | Tallahassee, FL | Fostering number sense development in K-1 ebs through interactive simulations and engagement in math discourse practices | $179,842 |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Understanding and intervening on inequities in chronic absenteeism and its consequences among high school students | $178,165 |
| University of Toronto | Toronto, CA | Raising academic achievement in under-performing schools through improved management: a research-practice partnership | $176,304 |
| Brown University | Providence, RI | Increasing teacher diversity, supply, and retention through grow your own programs | $171,333 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | Enhancing nursing capacity to understand and address the needs of native american youth on the fort belknap reservation | $169,625 |
| Washington University in St Louis | St Louis, MI | Choosing opportunities: reducing racial inequality with choice neighborhoods, wrap-around services, and case management | $168,791 |
| The Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | Carpe diem (courageous, antiracist, and reflective parenting efforts: deepening intentionality with each moment) | $167,293 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | Disrupting inequalities along the path to college and career: a partnership between metro nashville public schools and vanderbilt university | $162,500 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Improving access & equity in private scholarships | $157,871 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | Effects of work and financial assistance policies on child outcomes: long-term evidence from welfare reform experiments | $151,936 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | Research-Practice partnerships (rpps) and racial equity in school discipline: an exploration of the functioning of equity-centered rpps and… | $151,616 |
| National Public Radio | Washington, DC | In support of nprs coverage of children, youth and families | $150,000 |
| University of California Davis | Davis, CA | Effectiveness of a multi-system leadership strategy for using evidence during sustainment of asd interventions | $149,999 |
| King's College London | UK | Growing and sustaining a ure methods repository | $147,901 |
| University of North Carolina at Greensboro | Greensboro, NC | Co-Designing for parental presence in middle school STEM | $147,543 |
| The University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | Reducing inequality in academic outcomes through personalized learning | $146,624 |
| Florida State University Research Foundation | Tallahassee, FL | University research partnerships to reduce educational disparity in college towns: building a model in tallahassee, fl | $144,445 |
| Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | Reducing inequities in postsecondary debt and repayment through a multi-sector research-practice partnership | $144,445 |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | Focus: mental health: a stress and workforce development intervention promoting racial and economic justice among youth | $144,445 |
| University of Toronto | Toronto, CA | Youth in relation to returned land | $144,143 |
| Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA | The impact of upstream prevention of homelessness on youth educational and developmental outcomes | $142,440 |
| Bank Street College of Education | New York, NY | Public learning for a multiracial democracy: a project to construct a new narrative | $138,951 |
| The University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | Fostering belonging in school for black and latinx students: the pathway from teachers professional learning on asset-based pedagogy to… | $129,818 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | Building a more holistic and inclusive workforce development system for boston's youth | $125,000 |
| Brown University | Providence, RI | Identifying pathways to employment for college students | $120,613 |
| Tulane University | New Orleans, LA | How state policy affects racial/ethnic and gender equity in advanced course-taking | $112,212 |
Showing the 60 largest of 159 grants to organizations.
Grants approved for future payment
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | Improving the use of research evidence to reduce child and youth opioid-related trauma: developing and testing a reflective decision… | $733,353 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | Measuring the role of racial literacy in promoting equitable reading instruction through the 3rs | $648,527 |
| University of South Florida | Tampa, FL | Utilizing discrete event simulation (des) to improve the use and relevance of research evidence to inform school mental health services | $644,108 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Empowering latinx and black youth with school discipline referrals as peer coaches | $599,997 |
| North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC | An educational game to support multilingual learners' reading comprehension and science learning | $599,413 |
| The University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | Transformative justice in schools: unraveling the impacts of restorative practices on youth outcomes and inequality | $541,730 |
| Wayne State University | Fort Wayne, IN | How do mixed-income neighborhood initiatives reduce educational inequality for low-income black youth? | $403,198 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Hattie's influences on student achievement under an institutionally racist system: what works for black & brown students | $399,667 |
| University of Illinois Urbana | Urbana, IL | Unconditional cash transfers and child maltreatment | $389,603 |
| William Marsh Rice University | Houston, TX | Brokering activities and outcomes among embedded versus informal liaisons in education research-practice partnerships | $373,734 |
| University of Toronto | Toronto, | Exploring the role of youth advocacy in state policymakers use of research evidence for eating disorders prevention | $349,749 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | Reducing structural barriers in a school-based system of food assistance to reduce inequality in food security and child outcomes | $335,005 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | Research-Practice partnerships (rpps) and racial equity in school discipline: an exploration of the functioning of equity-centered rpps and… | $322,562 |
| The University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | Reducing inequality in academic outcomes through personalized learning | $303,376 |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | Investigating cross-sector synergies for reducing residential and school segregation | $300,000 |
| William Marsh Rice University | Houston, TX | National network of education research-practice partnerships | $296,443 |
| Washington University in St Louis | St Louis, MI | Advancing the social and economic mobility of black male youth and young men | $292,031 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | Understanding the potential of youth participatory action research to improve african american youth mental health outcomes | $281,671 |
| University of Oregon Foundation | Eugene, OR | Mapping the civics education landscape: identifying the role of research and politics in educational decision-making | $276,006 |
| University of California Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | Reducing socioeconomic inequality in pathways from college to work | $273,841 |
| Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA | Strategies and conditions facilitating and hindering education law attorneys use of research evidence | $272,536 |
| Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | School victimization and hate crime exposure among asian students: an evidence base to reduce well-being inequality | $270,636 |
| The University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | Fostering belonging in school for black and latinx students: the pathway from teachers professional learning on asset-based pedagogy to… | $270,186 |
| Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | Detecting preventable childhood vision loss and barriers to care in the navajo nation to reduce vision health disparities | $239,979 |
| Tulane University | New Orleans, LA | How state policy affects racial/ethnic and gender equity in advanced course-taking | $228,545 |
| Brown University | Providence, RI | Increasing teacher diversity, supply, and retention through grow your own programs | $224,705 |
| Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | State-Level interrupted time series of the family impact seminars: a national infrastructure for improving the use of research evidence | $222,535 |
| The Urban Institute | Washington, DC | Assessing the effect on inequality of a childless eitc expansion for young adults | $219,423 |
| University of California San Diego | LA Jolla, CA | Explicating the role of higher education in native nation-building | $201,369 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska for the University of Nebras | Omaha, NE | An online family-based program to reduce inequity among sexual and gender minority youth of color | $196,409 |
| University of California Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | Microecological influences of supervision on ure in childrens mental health: secondary analysis of the child steps in california randomized… | $191,328 |
| Harvard University | Boston, MA | Building healthy foundations: city-wide mapping of childhood asthma rates for early identification of dangerous housing | $189,836 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | Cisinformed: misinformation and the media war on transgender youth | $183,611 |
| University of Illinois Chicago | Chicago, IL | Interrogating successive school discipline reforms as levers for promoting racial equity | $181,130 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | Enhancing nursing capacity to understand and address the needs of native american youth on the fort belknap reservation | $180,375 |
| University of Tennessee | Knoxville, TN | Racism and the mechanisms maintaining racial stratification in poverty and material hardship for families with children | $167,343 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Improving access & equity in private scholarships | $161,000 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Reducing inequalities in public education through algorithmic assignment | $160,209 |
| King's College London | Growing and sustaining a ure methods repository | $147,900 | |
| New York University | New York, NY | Using big data to understand and reduce inequality in youth connectedness in an era of economic polarization | $143,727 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | How can state governments most effectively use research evidence when deciding how to spend tax dollars? | $140,427 |
| University of California | Santa Cruz, CA | Youth and undergraduate transformation to harness community change (youth-c2) | $132,880 |
| University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | Understanding how u.s. immigrant and immigration policies affect latino adolescents' school lives | $132,285 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | Building a more holistic and inclusive workforce development system for boston's youth | $125,000 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | Top-Down discipline: the effects of carceral ideology on low-income and racial minority students | $121,405 |
| New York University | New York, NY | Centering equity and improving evidence use in nycs education ecosystem | $120,000 |
| Mdrc | New York, NY | The role of community college interventions in reducing racial inequality in students academic progress | $117,187 |
| Arizona State University Foundation | Tempe, AZ | Changed mindsets, changed futures? enduring effects of two social-psychological interventions | $114,213 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | The delaware early literacy research-practice partnership: catalyzing educational equality | $113,007 |
| University of Maryland College Park | College Park, MD | Welcoming central american newcomer immigrant students: a mixed-methods study of school-community partnerships to reduce inequalities | $112,860 |
| The Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | Carpe diem (courageous, antiracist, and reflective parenting efforts: deepening intentionality with each moment) | $109,972 |
| William Marsh Rice University | Houston, TX | Reducing inequality through housing policies: the housing choice voucher program and its effects on academic outcomes of low-income… | $101,113 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | Institute in critical quantitative, computational, and mixed-methodologies | $94,109 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Boulder, CO | Embedding research into organizational routines to deepen the use of evidence | $83,697 |
| The Pew Charitable Trusts | Philadelphia, PA | Transforming evidence network | $82,000 |
| Community Resource Exchange | New York, NY | Support for yscg grantees | $76,660 |
| University of Illinois Urbana | Urbana, IL | The role of income and housing support in reducing inequality in child neglect | $71,983 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Reducing harm from structural xenophobia for reproductive equity | $71,536 |
| University of California Merced | Merced, CA | Assessing the effectiveness of school district safe-zone policies in narrowing achievement gaps among minority students: evidence from… | $70,020 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | How politics, poverty, and social policy implementation shape racial inequality in child development in the rural south | $63,840 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $17,746,826 | 263 |
| 2023 | $16,321,788 | 271 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Nov 15, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202513189349105436
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 13-1624021
- Profile updated Nov 5, 2026
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