research to reduce inequality – May 7 letters of inquiry

Posted by William T. Grant Foundation on April 8, 2025

William T. Grant Foundation invites applications for research to reduce inequality

The William T. Grant Foundation invites applications for its Research Grants on Reducing Inequality program, which supports research that aims to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5 to 25 in the United States. Studies that aim to reduce inequalities that exist along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, sexual or gender minority status, language minority status, or immigrant origins are prioritized.

Through the program, grants of up to $600,000 for up to three years will be awarded in support of descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality or elucidate how or why a specific program, policy, or practice operates to reduce inequality; intervention studies that examine attempts to reduce inequality; and studies that improve the measurement of inequality in ways that can enhance the work of researchers, practitioners, or policy makers. Studies from a range of disciplines, fields, and methods are invited, and the foundation encourages investigations into various youth-serving systems, including justice, housing, child welfare, mental health, and education. Applications must identify a specific inequality in youth outcomes; make a convincing case for the dimension(s) of inequality the study will address; and articulate how findings from your research will help build, test, or increase understanding of a program, policy, or practice to reduce the specific inequality that you have identified.

Proposals are encouraged from organizations that are under-represented among grantee institutions, including historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions, Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), Alaska Native-serving institutions, Native Hawaiian-serving institutions, and Asian American Native American Pacific Islander-serving institutions (AANAPISIs).

Applicants must be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code to be eligible.

For complete program guidelines, application instructions, and descriptions of previously funded projects, see the William T. Grant Foundation website.

Deadline: May 7, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. ET (Letters of Inquiry)