· Private foundation
William T Grant Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k93 grants · $12M
- $250k+14 grants · $4.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE URBAN INSTITUTE | $497,580 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $429,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $426,494 |
| PHILANTHROPY NEW YORK | $410,006 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $400,219 |
| NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION | $360,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $323,150 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $309,912 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $305,892 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $299,266 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $298,327 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $283,819 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $267,763 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $259,573 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $232,013 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $782k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of William T Grant Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
124 repeat relationships: 79 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NYNew York University6× · 2019–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +51%
- UOUniversity of Michigan6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +140% · 81% of their budget
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +8%
Funded once
Youth Collaboratory Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $218k · revenue +42%- RSRUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -74%
- TBTHE BELL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -22%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Education and Research
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The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
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How this is measured
166 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 166 of the 248 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Spencer Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · Brooklyn Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William T Grant Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William T Grant Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Educational Testing Service: 6% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
- National Indian Child Welfare Association: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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