How to apply
Accepts applications
The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.
- Contact
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RSF Programs Dept
112 E 64th Street
New York, NY 100657307
(212) 750-6000
[email protected] - Form and materials
- Check the foundation's website for forms, deadlines and restrictions.
- Deadlines
- See (b) above.
- Restrictions
- See (b) above.
Assets and giving by year
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Tax year 2024
$6,412,899
- Grants listed
- 137
- Assets, end of year
- $492,645,457
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Tax year 2023
$7,280,552
- Grants listed
- 171
- Assets, end of year
- $466,906,661
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Tax year 2022
$6,343,919
- Grants listed
- 155
- Assets, end of year
- $423,159,958
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Tax year 2021
$6,061,825
- Grants listed
- 143
- Assets, end of year
- $391,503,640
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Tax year 2020
$7,224,398
- Grants listed
- 144
- Assets, end of year
- $452,099,373
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Tax year 2019
$6,085,258
- Grants listed
- 135
- Assets, end of year
- $373,940,427
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Tax year 2018
$5,059,867
- Grants listed
- 101
- Assets, end of year
- $337,324,093
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Tax year 2017
$4,086,775
- Grants listed
- 97
- Assets, end of year
- $347,230,046
Grants paid in 2024
As listed on the return.
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North Carolina State UniversityRaleigh, NC
Police exposure and socioeconomic well-being among african american men
$117,364 -
Brookings InstitutionWashington, DC
Can transfer pathways promote diversity after the 2023 supreme court deci...
$109,000 -
National Academy of SciencesWashington, DC
Global forced migration and u.s. Resettlement
$100,000 -
Stanford UniversityStanford, CA
A public platform for open mixed-methods research
$100,000 -
University of California Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA
Political solidarity and political action among people of color
$100,000 -
George Washington UniversityWashington, DC
How does application assistance affect the receipt of unemployment benefi...
$99,996 -
University of ChicagoChicago, IL
How homeownership stabilizes and destabilizes womens lives
$99,036 -
New York UniversityNew York, NY
Bay area thriving families: qualitative assessment
$98,816 -
Syracuse UniversitySyracuse, NY
Growing up in court
$98,512 -
University of California San DiegoLa Jolla, CA
The geography of race and ethnicity in the united states
$97,511 -
Arizona State UniversityTempe, AZ
Building a qualitative data infrastructure on how guns shape political life
$96,355 -
Stanford UniversityStanford, CA
The great work from home divide
$96,291 -
University of California BerkeleyBerkeley, CA
Long run impacts of women's education
$95,459 -
Utah State UniversityLogan, UT
Community impacts of immigration enforcement
$94,843 -
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD
How do high-achieving low-income students make postsecondary decisions? I...
$91,433 -
Colby CollegeWaterville, ME
Rural work, precarity and resilience
$91,253 -
Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY
Socioeconomic and racial disparities in drivers license suspension
$86,902 -
University of California BerkeleyBerkeley, CA
Geographic and neighborhood differences in intergenerational earnings mob...
$86,250 -
Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY
The context and life course of racial/ethnic identities among multiracial...
$83,519 -
Brown UniversityProvidence, RI
Estimating the experience of a worker's first job
$83,396 -
University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI
Enforcing inequality
$82,898 -
University of HoustonHouston, TX
A first examination of academic and early-career outcomes of refugee and ...
$81,395 -
University of California Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA
Emergency education and social inequalities: evidence from wwii in the u.s.
$80,964 -
Environmental Defense FundNew York, NY
Inequities in the distribution of mortgage distress following flood events
$78,010 -
American UniversityWashington, DC
Escape from the criminal state
$75,000 -
Georgia Tech Research CorporationAtlanta, GA
The effects of diaper taxes on maternal employment
$75,000 -
Graduate Center City University of New YorkNew York, NY
Public opinion and new yorks asylum crisis
$75,000 -
Joan & Sanford I Weill Medical College of Cornell UniversityNew York, NY
State recreational cannabis laws and racial disparities in the criminal j...
$75,000 -
University at Albany State University of New YorkAlbany, NY
Anti-immigrant policies, rhetoric and violence in a new destination ethni...
$75,000 -
University of ChicagoChicago, IL
Complements to work: childcare subsidies and female labor supply
$75,000 -
University of MiamiCoral Gables, FL
Forty acres and a mule: local reparations policies in comparative perspective
$75,000 -
University of South Florida Research Foundation IncTampa, FL
Place-, home-making, and incorporation after post-disaster migration
$75,000 -
University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA
The labor market impacts of remote work
$75,000 -
Baruch College City University of New YorkNew York, NY
Post-deportation experiences in el salvador: a family communication approach
$74,984 -
Northeastern UniversityBoston, MA
The consequences of expungement policy on immigration outcomes
$74,973 -
University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherst, MA
Understanding the voices of an increasingly diverse electorate through TH...
$74,900 -
University of Tennessee KnoxvilleKnoxville, TN
Legal representation in eviction court
$74,800 -
University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherst, MS
Evolution, pathways, and behavioral patterns of the economic elite
$74,676 -
Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, MA
How much do older workers value retiree health insurance?
$71,733 -
Chapman UniversityOrange, CA
Polarization and partisan norms
$71,200 -
University of Texas at AustinAustin, TX
Evaluating the impact of investor ownership of childcare centers
$69,999 -
University of California IrvineIrvine, CA
Inheriting good credit
$69,360 -
Stanford UniversityStanford, CA
The g.i. Bill and black-white wealth disparities
$66,197 -
University of California BerkeleyBerkeley, CA
How sponsors legal status and relationship to children shape unaccompani...
$66,000 -
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA
Individual worker-owner census
$64,705 -
Stanford UniversityStanford, CA
Beyond representation
$63,718 -
Brown UniversityProvidence, RI
Climate politics as status politics
$61,233 -
College of William and MaryWilliamsburg, VA
The long-run impacts of zoning the suburbs
$57,163 -
University of California RiversideRiverside, CA
Immigration and education: early insights from the buslift to NYC
$55,592 -
University of California San DiegoLa Jolla, CA
Unequal treatment or unequal opportunity? Employer and location effects i...
$53,754 -
University of Texas ArlingtonArlington, TX
Urban braceros
$52,340 -
Columbia UniversityNew York, NY
Racialized and gendered evaluations of remote work
$50,000 -
Miami UniversityOxford, OH
Abortion access and inequalities in education and labor market outcomes
$50,000 -
State University of New York at BuffaloAlbany, NY
School-to-work transitions for young adults during the covid-19 pandemic
$50,000 -
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA
Racial bias and societal outcomes: can minority media representation help?
$50,000 -
Clark Atlanta UniversityAtlanta, GA
Through a du boisian lens-informing public policy through empirical socia...
$49,967 -
Middlebury CollegeMiddlebury, VT
Improving labor conditions for healthcare workers
$48,459 -
Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, TN
Creating a nuisance? Housing nuisance ordinances and their impacts on stu...
$46,903 -
Boston UniversityBoston, MS
21st century justice: the struggle to decarcerate in the u.s. States
$45,931 -
University of Texas at AustinAustin, TX
Policing socio-geographic change and displacement
$44,607 -
Columbia UniversityNew York, NY
The pennsylvania solitary study
$43,229 -
University of HartfordWest Hartford, CT
Income inequality at the crossroads
$42,500 -
University of Washington SeattleSeattle, WA
Race, gender, recessions & the power of policy
$42,500 -
University of Wisconsin MadisonMadison, WI
Licensed payday lender vacancies and energy assistance participation
$42,500 -
University of Illinois ChicagoChicago, IL
The life course implications of legal exclusion among undocumented latina...
$38,000 -
Columbia UniversityNew York, NY
Can we talk about race and racism on social media? Evidence from a feed e...
$37,500 -
Gettysburg CollegeGettysburg, PA
Taking perspective
$37,500 -
Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation IncKennesaw, GA
Long-term reduction of racial and ethnoreligious bias through a new, mult...
$37,500 -
National Academy of SciencesWashington, DC
Federal policy impacts on child poverty
$37,500 -
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignChampaign, IL
Algorithmic management in hotel housekeeping
$37,500 -
University of Massachusetts BostonBoston, MA
Hurricanes, floods and fires
$37,500 -
Virginia Commonwealth UniversityRichmond, VA
The structural and cultural context of deaths of despair
$37,500 -
University at Albany State University of New YorkAlbany, NY
The economic and social impact of covid-19 and anti-asian hate on chinato...
$37,497 -
Brown UniversityProvidence, RI
Hidden money: school-supporting non-profit funds and rising inequality
$37,487 -
Duke UniversityDurham, NC
Has the changing media landscape affected labor union organizing? Evidenc...
$37,432 -
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignChampaign, IL
Consequences of the terms "latinx and "latine" in educational contexts
$37,180 -
University of ChicagoChicago, IL
A welcoming city? The reception of asylum-seekers in chicago
$37,000 -
University of Illinois ChicagoChicago, IL
Who is and should be american? How religion, race, and demographic shifts...
$36,757 -
Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, TX
Optimal aid policies: beyond college access
$35,286 -
American UniversityWashington, DC
Investigating race concepts in the college essay production process after...
$35,000 -
Case Western Reserve UniversityCleveland, OH
Demographic change and shifting u.s. State immigration policies, 1996-2024
$35,000 -
Colorado State University Fort CollinsFort Collins, CO
Descriptive diversity and government legitimacy
$35,000 -
Northeastern UniversityBoston, MA
The effect of changing united states demographics on white/black, white/a...
$35,000 -
University of California IrvineIrvine, CA
Health shocks and households' financial well-being
$35,000 -
University of Notre DameNotre Dame, IN
Unsettling refugees
$35,000 -
Williams CollegeWilliamstown, MA
Welcoming immigrants and refugees in a different kind of rural america
$35,000 -
Rutgers University New BrunswickNew Brunswick, NJ
The impact of massachusetts' chapter 40b on affordable housing beneficiaries
$32,838 -
New York UniversityNew York, NY
Can awareness of historical injustice increase support for reparations? T...
$31,451 -
W E Upjohn Institute for Employment ResearchKalamazoo, MI
Gender, wages, hours, and the role of the employer
$30,718 -
University of California IrvineIrvine, CA
Addressing racial inequities in prosecution
$30,516 -
American UniversityWashington, DC
Snap distribution schedules and student standardized test score performance
$30,000 -
University of California DavisDavis, CA
Disparities in exposure risk to environmental disadvantage in neighborhoo...
$29,993 -
University of TorontoToronto, Canada
Pay transparency, negotiation, and employer demand
$27,850 -
University of Georgia Research FoundationAthens, GA
Title: poll watchers and public opinion in the u.s.
$26,500 -
Brown UniversityProvidence, RI
Widening disparities in changing places
$25,000 -
University of VirginiaCharlottesvle, VA
Student racial justice activism and higher education reparations at unive...
$25,000 -
Brown UniversityProvidence, RI
How does firm-level sorting contribute to the gender wage gap? Changes FR...
$24,974 -
University of Maryland Baltimore CountyBaltimore, MD
Racial discrimination, identity, socialization and civic engagement among...
$23,446 -
University of Georgia Research FoundationAthens, GA
Strategic wage concealment and labor market power
$23,366 -
St John's UniversityJamaica, NY
Race, immigration, and integration: south asian immigrants in queens
$23,088 -
University of Colorado DenverDenver, CO
Socio-economic integration and assimilation of mexican-origin migrants in...
$22,437 -
New York UniversityNew York, NY
Partisan misfits
$19,542 -
Boston UniversityBoston, MA
The pennsylvania solitary study
$16,771 -
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD
A theoretical and empirical examination of the american bureaucracy and t...
$16,039 -
University of California MercedMerced, CA
Same as it ever was
$15,225 -
Columbia UniversityNew York, NY
150 years of us skin tone inequality
$15,000 -
Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY
Long-term effects of universal free school meal policies
$15,000 -
Graduate Center City University of New YorkNew York, NY
Measuring authoritarianism through state punishment
$15,000 -
New York UniversityNew York, NY
The racial identification and classification of asians in the united states
$15,000 -
Northwestern UniversityEvanston, IL
Essays on the evolution of women's labor
$15,000 -
Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH
The politics of migration governance and lived realities of afghan migra...
$15,000 -
St Louis UniversitySaint Louis, MO
Mapping financial access
$15,000 -
Syracuse UniversitySyracuse, NY
The black cabinet
$15,000 -
University of California BerkeleyBerkeley, CA
How does housing supply impact asian american segregation?
$15,000 -
University of California IrvineIrvine, CA
Navigating pathways to adulthood in an era of precarity
$15,000 -
University of California Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA
Optimal wage insurance
$15,000 -
University of California Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA
Vehicle living in los angeles
$15,000 -
University of California San DiegoLa Jolla, CA
Elements of latinidad
$15,000 -
University of California Santa CruzSanta Cruz, CA
Rent control, household finances and labor market mobility
$15,000 -
University of Missouri ColumbiaColumbia, MO
Layoffs and crime
$15,000 -
University of Washington SeattleSeattle, WA
Hospital desegregation and hospital holdouts
$15,000 -
University of Wisconsin MadisonMadison, WI
Concrete men: the construction of working-class politics on the job
$15,000 -
University of Wisconsin MadisonMadison, WI
Essays on the social safety net, economic insecurity, and inequality duri...
$15,000 -
University of Wisconsin MadisonMadison, WI
Navigating affordable housing
$15,000 -
Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT
Beyond removal: salvadoran immigrants and the aftermath of deportation
$15,000 -
Duke UniversityDurham, NC
Has the changing media landscape affected labor union organizing? Evidenc...
$13,994 -
New York UniversityNew York, NY
Labor market entry into a recession - unequal effects by gender
$10,000 -
University of California BerkeleyBerkeley, CA
The effects of parent plus loans on educational and family finances
$10,000 -
University of ChicagoChicago, IL
Bureaucracies of innocence: reentry and remedy after wrongful conviction
$10,000 -
University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI
Estimating the long-run impact of government spending on small businesses...
$10,000 -
University of Notre DameNotre Dame, IN
The effects of public eviction records on low-income households
$10,000 -
University of OregonEugene, OR
Pretextual stop ban, policing behavior, & public welfare
$10,000 -
University of Wisconsin MadisonMadison, WI
A privatized welfare state
$10,000 -
University Corporation at Monterey BayMonterey, CA
H-2a mexican agricultural guestworkers
$9,745 -
University of Texas ArlingtonArlington, TX
Urban braceros
$7,500 -
Assumption UniversityWorcester, MA
Debt peonage
$2,970 -
University of North Carolina WilmingtonWilmington, NC
The civil rights movement and legacies of racial violence
$1,671
Approved for future payment
Approved in 2024 and not yet paid; the largest 50 are shown.
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Northwestern UniversityEvanston, IL
Does a universal ethnic-racial identity intervention promote psychosocial...
$200,000 -
University of California BerkeleyBerkeley, CA
Behavioral inequality
$200,000 -
George Washington UniversityWashington, DC
The perils and promise of living together
$199,923 -
University of Rhode IslandKingston, RI
Does the alleviation of criminal legal debt end the cycle of punishment
$199,897 -
University of California Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA
Using longitudinal worker and firm data to measure the impact of ai-drive...
$179,417 -
Wellesley CollegeWellesley, MA
State minimum wages: long-term impacts on the job quality of low wage workers
$144,005 -
University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA
Is police use of force contagious? The role of social networks to explain...
$108,928 -
National Academy of SciencesWashington, DC
Global forced migration and u.s. Resettlement
$100,000 -
Stanford UniversityStanford, CA
A public platform for open mixed-methods research
$100,000 -
University of ChicagoChicago, IL
Impacts of demand-driven workforce development
$100,000 -
George Washington UniversityWashington, DC
How does application assistance affect the receipt of unemployment benefi...
$99,996 -
University of ChicagoChicago, IL
How homeownership stabilizes and destabilizes womens lives
$99,035 -
New York UniversityNew York, NY
Bay area thriving families: qualitative assessment
$98,816 -
Syracuse UniversitySyracuse, NY
Growing up in court
$98,512 -
University of Nebraska LincolnLincoln, NE
The parenthood gap: firms and earnings inequality after kids
$96,942 -
Arizona State UniversityTempe, AZ
Building a qualitative data infrastructure on how guns shape political life
$96,355 -
Stanford UniversityStanford, CA
The great work from home divide
$96,290 -
University of California BerkeleyBerkeley, CA
Long run impacts of women's education
$95,458 -
Utah State UniversityLogan, UT
Community impacts of immigration enforcement
$94,843 -
University of Texas at AustinAustin, TX
Policing socio-geographic change and displacement
$93,568 -
Colby CollegeWaterville, ME
Rural work, precarity and resilience
$91,253 -
Brown UniversityProvidence, RI
State-level safety net investments, family economic well-being and childr...
$88,143 -
Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY
Socioeconomic and racial disparities in drivers license suspension
$86,902 -
University of California BerkeleyBerkeley, CA
Geographic and neighborhood differences in intergenerational earnings mob...
$86,250 -
Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY
The context and life course of racial/ethnic identities among multiracial...
$83,519 -
Brown UniversityProvidence, RI
Estimating the experience of a worker's first job
$83,395 -
Environmental Defense FundNew York, NY
Inequities in the distribution of mortgage distress following flood events
$78,009 -
University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA
Prosecutor-driven criminal justice reform and socioeconomic wellbeing
$75,686 -
Boston UniversityBoston, MA
Do employment dynamics explain the black-white earnings gap?
$75,000 -
Colorado State University Fort CollinsFort Collins, CO
Understanding the impact of the 2023 supreme court decision to ban race-c...
$75,000 -
Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY
Using machine learning to analyze equity in parole-release decisions
$75,000 -
Duke UniversityDurham, NC
Records of exclusion: chinese immigration in historical perspective
$75,000 -
Harvard UniversityCambridge, MA
Understanding college decision-making among delayed beginners, stopouts,...
$75,000 -
New York UniversityNew York, NY
The effects of the 2023 supreme court ruling to ban race-conscious admiss...
$75,000 -
Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, IN
The whiteness of ai and its implications for employment outcomes
$75,000 -
Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT
How couples remote work and schedule control shape work and family time
$75,000 -
University of VirginiaCharlottesvle, VA
Public sector collective bargaining after the covid-19 pandemic
$74,987 -
Georgetown UniversityWashington, DC
Reducing inequality in academic outcomes with a meal program
$74,585 -
University of TorontoToronto, Canada
Intellectual humility intervention experiment and intervention design tou...
$74,010 -
Princeton UniversityPrinceton, NJ
Assessing identity as constraint on democratic accountability
$74,000 -
University of Colorado DenverDenver, CO
The intergenerational effects of import competition
$73,136 -
Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY
Analog trades in a digital world
$71,563 -
University of California IrvineIrvine, CA
Inheriting good credit
$69,359 -
University of California BerkeleyBerkeley, CA
How sponsors legal status and relationship to children shape unaccompani...
$66,092 -
University of Maryland College ParkCollege Park, MD
Weve got you covered: employer and employee responses to dobbs v. Jackson
$65,000 -
American Political Science AssociationWashington, DC
American political science association doctoral dissertation research imp...
$50,000 -
Arizona State UniversityTempe, AZ
Law and science dissertation grant (LSDG) program
$50,000 -
Middlebury CollegeMiddlebury, VT
Improving labor conditions for healthcare workers
$48,458 -
Pomona CollegeClaremont, CA
Justice for janitors, the "new south", and the future of labor
$48,036 -
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State UniversityGreensboro, NC
Nationality-by-origin, citizenship status, and judicial decision-making i...
$46,500
Where the money goes
By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.
- Education60 grants $2,874,69178% of the total
- Community development5 grants $232,0906% of the total
- Health2 grants $174,9965% of the total
- Science and technology2 grants $137,5004% of the total
- Social science1 grant $109,0003% of the total
- Environment1 grant $78,0102% of the total
- 4 other causes4 grants $84,9932% of the total
By State
Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.
- California27 grants $1,397,775
- New York22 grants $1,045,040
- District of Columbia8 grants $564,506
- Illinois9 grants $385,473
- Massachusetts6 grants $310,877
- Texas6 grants $291,127
- Rhode Island5 grants $232,090
- Georgia5 grants $212,333
- North Carolina4 grants $170,461
- Mississippi4 grants $158,577
Officers, directors and trustees
As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.
- Jennifer RichesonCHAIRMAN Hours 0.6Pay $13,200
- Earl LewisVICE-CHAIRMAN Hours 0.6Pay $8,700
- David LaibsonTREASURER Hours 0.6Pay $10,500
- Marianne BertrandTRUSTEE Hours 0.6Pay $14,400
- Cathy CohenTRUSTEE Hours 0.6Pay $10,075
- James DruckmanTRUSTEE Hours 0.6Pay $12,600
- Jason FurmanTRUSTEE Hours 0.6Pay $10,500
- Jeffry HaberNON-VOTING COMMITTEE MEMBER Hours 0.6Pay $600
- Michael Jones-CorreaTRUSTEE Hours 0.6Pay $8,000
- David LeonhardtTRUSTEE Hours 0.6Pay $8,100
- Hazel MarkusTRUSTEE Hours 0.6Pay $10,500
- Tracey MearesTRUSTEE Hours 0.6Pay $7,500
- Thomas SugrueTRUSTEE Hours 0.6Pay $10,000
- Celeste Watkins-HayesTREASURER Hours 0.6Pay $10,600
- Sheldon DanzigerPRESIDENT UNTIL 6-1-25 Hours 35Pay $708,265
- Bruce WesternPRESIDENT, STARTING 7-1-25 Hours 35Pay $403,057
- Leana ChatrathSECRETARY Hours 35Pay $223,500
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