William T. Grant Foundation – Two Funding Opportunities
The William T. Grant Foundation supports research that improves the lives of young people, with a focus on reducing inequality and strengthening the use of research evidence in policy and practice. Two funding opportunities are currently open, and applicants may submit only one application per cycle as the principal investigator.
1. Research Grants on Reducing Inequality
This program supports research to improve understanding of programs, policies, or practices that reduce inequality in academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes for youth ages 5–25.
Priorities and Restrictions
Research describing how programs or policies reduce inequality or tests their effectiveness through causal evidence. Not Funded: studies focused mainly on physical health outcomes, studies centered solely on dimensions outside race, ethnicity, economic standing, sexual/gender minority status, language minority status, or immigrant origins, or studies that examine the causes or extent of inequality rather than strategies to reduce it.
Awards Size:
- Major Research Grants: $100,000–$600,000
- Officers’ Research Grants: $25,000–$50,000
Project Duration: 1–3 years
Deadline: January 7, 2026. 12:00 pm PST and July 29, 2026. 12:00 pm PST
Research Grants on Reducing Inequality RFP
2. Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence
This program supports research on strategies to improve the use, usefulness, and impact of evidence in ways that benefit youth ages 5–25.
Priorities and Restrictions
Studies that test strategies to improve how research evidence is used in policy or organizational decision-making and how enhanced research use benefits youth outcomes. Studies are invited from a range of disciplines, fields, and methods, and encourage investigations into various youth-serving systems, including justice, housing, child welfare, mental health, K-12 and higher education. Not Funded: studies that only describe how people access or interpret research, studies focused solely on data-driven decision-making, or studies aimed at improving research use by frontline practitioners such as teachers or clinicians.
Awards Size:
- Major Research Grants: $100,000–$1,000,000
- Officers’ Research Grants: $25,000–$50,000
Project Duration: 1–4 years
Deadline: January 7, 2026. 3:00 pm EST and July 29, 2026. 3:00 pm EST
Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence
Allen Family Philanthropies
Allen Family Philanthropies has issued a call to non-profit organizations across the U.S. that are working in the Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) space to break implementation barriers using science and technology. For this RFP, the foundation is particularly interested in projects that develop, test, and deploy science and technology solutions for overcoming NCS implementation barriers. These types of barriers include: 1) material inputs, 2) finance, 3) markets, 4) adverse NCS impacts, 5) knowledge, 6) social and behavioral, 7) rules and laws, and 8) governments and organizations. The foundation believes that the collaborative development of generalizable science and technology solutions to overcome these barriers will be critical for NCS to meet their mitigation potential.
Letter of Interest (LOI) Due January 15, 2026
Full Proposals due by March 10, 2026 by invite only.
Allen Family Philanthropies RFP