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Grants paid by The Spencer Foundation, tax year 2021
EIN 36-6078558 · Chicago, IL · Form 990-PF, Part XV · NTEE B99Z
In tax year 2021, The Spencer Foundation (EIN 36-6078558) reported 154 grants paid totaling $20,963,346. Dataset version 2026.09.0, built 2026-09-03.
Every grant, 2021
| Tax year | Recipient | Match | Amount | Type | Purpose | Source filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | National Academy of Education Washington, DC | B | $10,525,691 | approved, future | NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Cohorts 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24) | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | National Academy of Education Washington, DC | B | $4,282,265 | paid | NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program (Cohorts 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21) | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY | U | $1,765,496 | approved, future | Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship Program, 2020-2024 | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles, CA | U | $1,092,626 | approved, future | Orange County Educational Advancement Network: Facilitating a Network of RPPs at County Scale to Better Support Housing Insecure and Foster Youth | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Curators of the University of Missouri On Behalf of the University of Misso Saint Louis, MO | U | $806,273 | approved, future | Countering the Unintended Consequences of School Reforms: Communally-bonded Schools Reconnecting Black Students, Strengthening Communities, and Improving Educational Outcomes | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | American Indian College Fund Denver, CO | B | $798,364 | approved, future | American Indian and Alaska Native College Students: Building Collaborative Data Capacity and Investigating College Access, Persistence, and Graduation Success | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Chicago, IL | C | $769,204 | paid | Mapping Engineered Conflict: School Closings, Public Housing, Law Enforcement and the Future of Black Life | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles, CA | U | $725,324 | paid | COVID-19 in California Community Colleges: College Responses, College Resources, and Student Outcomes | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN | U | $718,570 | paid | Implications of Black Lives Matter Social Movement on Prosocial Development and Academic Outcomes of Rural African American Youth | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Regents of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI | C | $687,958 | paid | Lottery-Based Evaluations of Early Education Programs: Identifying Opportunities and Solving Challenges | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | B | $641,985 | approved, future | Dont Take That Tone With Me': Linguistic Variation and Disciplinary Action on African American Children in Schools | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA | U | $640,822 | paid | The Impact of Ignoring Parameter Uncertainty on Sample-Size Planning for Cluster-Randomized and Multisite Randomized Trials | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX | B | $596,992 | paid | Disrupted Trajectories of Well-being and Compensating Supports in the Time of COVID-19 | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY | U | $578,817 | paid | Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship Program, 2020-2024 | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | B | $475,960 | paid | Improving Instruction through Data Use on Teaching Quality | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Brown University Providence, RI | U | $449,874 | approved, future | Funding Progressivity, COVID-19, and Inequality of School Resources by Race and SES | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Redwood City, CA | C | $439,386 | approved, future | Evaluation of a preschool socio-emotional curriculum: Testing effectiveness and drivers of change in a large, urban school district | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Strategic Education Research Partnership Institute Washington, DC | B | $428,252 | paid | Academically Productive Talk: Strengthening the Infrastructure for Research and Practice | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Madison, WI | C | $424,313 | approved, future | Profiting from a Pandemic? The Racialized Political Economy of Investments in K-12 Edtech | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA | B | $420,516 | paid | Exploring the Development of Teaching Skills | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Michigan State University East Lansing, MI | U | $406,000 | paid | Research Communication plan for 'Making Knowledge of RtI for Mathematics at the Secondary Level More Explicit' | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Northwestern University Evanston, IL | B | $395,981 | approved, future | Spencer Large Grant: A modernizing engineering education within a traditional Islamic society: A study of knowledge, learning, and identity in the early life of Sharif University of Technology, 1966-1979 | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Trustees of Boston University Boston, MA | B | $382,787 | approved, future | Project Civic LeAdS: Enhancing Civic Engagement of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families and Students with Disabilities: Legislative Advocacy in Special Education | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia Hayward, WI | B | $374,918 | approved, future | Reclaiming Land and Languages Through Indigenous Community-Based Mobile Game Design | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX | B | $366,625 | approved, future | Structure-Agency in Special Education: A multilevel qualitative study of the implementation of inclusion | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Centre for Lebanese Studies Beirut | U | $361,788 | paid | Towards An Inclusive Education for Refugees: A Comparative Longitudinal Study | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | National Opinion Research Center Chicago, IL | C | $357,098 | paid | Advancing Equitable Access and Use of Research to Promote Improvements in Educational Policies and Practices within the Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Community | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Montclair State University Montclair, NJ | B | $346,685 | approved, future | Teacher Diversity, Retention, and Muslim-American Teachers | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Csu Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation Fullerton, CA | B | $339,023 | approved, future | The Development of Executive Function Skills in Maya and European-American Children | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | B | $336,373 | paid | Conceptualizing, Measuring and Developing In Situ Professional Judgment Setting A Global Research Agenda | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Washington Seattle, WA | B | $325,452 | paid | Unpacking the Effects of Dual Credit Coursework on College Opportunity and Equity: A Mixed-Methods Comparative Study of Different Course Delivery Contexts | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Maryland at College Park College Park, MD | U | $289,083 | paid | Dual-language teacher learning: Developing dynamic bilingualism, multilingual disciplinary literacies, sociocultural understanding, and critical consciousness | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Research Foundation of the City University of New York New York, NY | B | $286,951 | paid | Expanding Food Benefits in Response to a Crisis: Lessons for the Covid-19 Pandemic | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Oregon State University Corvallis, OR | B | $272,999 | paid | Institutional Agents: Exploring High School Counselors College Knowledge in California Title I Schools | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Learning Policy Institute Palo Alta, CA | C | $258,750 | approved, future | Support for Two Post-Doctoral Scholars at the Learning Policy Institute | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN | U | $258,460 | approved, future | Identifying strategies to diversify Tennessee's teacher workforce through recruitment and retention research | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Northwestern University Evanston, IL | B | $256,744 | paid | Broadening the contexts in which educational research is conducted | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Education Trust Washington, DC | B | $251,425 | approved, future | Support for Two Post-Doctoral Scholars at The Education Trust | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Regents of the University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA | C | $249,027 | paid | Rapid Research Grant with WT Grant: Research for Reimagining Community Safety | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Georgetown University Washington, DC | B | $232,903 | paid | Up, up and away: Malleable features of pre-k and primary classrooms and their contributions to sustained benefits for vulnerable children | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Research Foundation of the City University of New York New York, NY | B | $229,717 | approved, future | Decolonizing Economics: A Qualitative Study on the Teaching of Racial Capitalism to Young Children | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | William T Grant Foundation New York, NY | B | $225,000 | approved, future | Support for the 2021 Institutional Challenge Grant program at the William T. Grant Foundation | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Universidad de la Sabana Cundinamarca | U | $223,742 | paid | Strengthening education in a rural community of former guerrilla members and their families: A participatory action research approach towards peace-building in Colombia | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Madison, WI | C | $218,345 | paid | Research Communications Plan for 'Childrens learning and adults reading from print and electronic books: Effects of platform and interactivity' | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Montclair State University Montclair, NJ | B | $203,315 | paid | What Are the Police Doing Here? The Role of School Resource Officers | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | American Indian College Fund Denver, CO | B | $201,635 | paid | American Indian and Alaska Native College Students: Building Collaborative Data Capacity and Investigating College Access, Persistence, and Graduation Success | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Curators of the University of Missouri Saint Louis, MO | D | $193,727 | paid | Countering the Unintended Consequences of School Reforms: Communally-bonded Schools Reconnecting Black Students, Strengthening Communities, and Improving Educational Outcomes | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | B | $188,841 | paid | Understanding the Impact of Integration Policies in New York City Public Schools | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Urbana, IL | B | $183,595 | paid | Dilemmas of Ethics and Justice in Higher Education: Bridging Philosophy, Research, and Practice to Advance Empirically-Engaged, Collaborative Normative Inquiry | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Universidad de la Sabana Cundinamarca | U | $175,976 | approved, future | Strengthening education in a rural community of former guerrilla members and their families: A participatory action research approach towards peace-building in Colombia | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Teachers College Columbia University New York, NY | B | $174,738 | approved, future | Black Education in the Wake of COVID: Toward a Theory of Change and Action | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Teachers College Columbia University New York, NY | B | $174,395 | paid | Hechinger Report Research on Education | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Brown University Providence, RI | U | $174,386 | paid | Funding Progressivity, COVID-19, and Inequality of School Resources by Race and SES | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Csu Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation Fullerton, CA | B | $170,874 | paid | The Development of Executive Function Skills in Maya and European-American Children | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Oregon State University Corvallis, OR | B | $150,501 | approved, future | Effects of Four-Day School Weeks on Student Achievement and Child and Family Wellbeing | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA | B | $149,101 | paid | Investigating Postsecondary Education Access and Choice for Rural Black Students Using a Participatory Mixed Methods Approach | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Wayne State University Detroit, MI | U | $140,768 | paid | Reducing Chronic Absenteeism, Increasing Opportunity: A School-Community-Research Partnership to Improve Policy and Practice Related to Attendance in Detroit | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA | U | $138,232 | paid | Mindfulness-Based Intervention Implementation and Sustainability in Diverse School Contexts | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media Saint Paul, MN | D | $133,333 | paid | APM Reports Education Documentaries, 2019-2022 | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Western Washington University Bellingham, WA | U | $126,410 | approved, future | Indigenous Land Education in Early Childhood: Examining a Process for Curriculum Development in a Tribal Nation Early Learning Program | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA | B | $123,805 | approved, future | Police Stops and School Adjustment: Examining Underlying and Protective Mechanisms among Black Adolescents | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Western Washington University Bellingham, WA | U | $123,588 | paid | Indigenous Land Education in Early Childhood: Examining a Process for Curriculum Development in a Tribal Nation Early Learning Program | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Governing Council of the University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario | D | $120,365 | paid | Teaching for critical reflection in medical education: tracing the effects on report-writing and practice outcomes for school-based healthcare | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC | C | $120,000 | paid | Equity in K-12 STEM Education Consensus Study | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Trustees of Boston University Boston, MA | B | $117,213 | paid | Project Civic LeAdS: Enhancing Civic Engagement of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families and Students with Disabilities: Legislative Advocacy in Special Education | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX | U | $109,757 | paid | Students versus Institutions: How Policymakers Distribute Funds to Higher Education during an Economic Recession | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Boston College Trustees Chestnut Hill, MA | B | $109,527 | paid | Teacher Preparation at New Graduate Schools of Education: Shifting Institutional Environments | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Auburn University Auburn, AL | U | $100,000 | paid | An Intersectional Longitudinal Study of Identity Development for Queer College Students of Color: The First Year | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation Kennesaw, GA | D | $99,994 | paid | Building Racial Literacy in Elementary Classrooms | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL | U | $99,849 | paid | Expanding Black Civic Educative Imaginaries: Diasporic Perspectives on Afro-Latin@ and Afro-Latin American Political Thought | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University System of New Hampshire Durham, NH | B | $99,807 | paid | Rural First-Generation College Students: Transcending the Home-School Divide | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Regents of the University of California at San Diego La Jolla, CA | B | $99,783 | paid | Analyzing How Contextual and Individual Factors Impact Scholars Engagement in Racial Justice Activism | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University Tempe, AZ | B | $96,910 | paid | Developing Theories and Practices for Applied Imagination, Co-Developing Community Energy Engineering After-School Programing with Latinx Youth | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | National Public Education Support Fund Washington, DC | C | $95,000 | paid | EDUCATION2020 | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | President and Trustees of Bates College Lewiston, ME | B | $82,723 | approved, future | Disappearing the Delta?: How school closures shape rural African-American communities in the Arkansas Delta | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Tower Foundation of San Jose State University San Jose, CA | B | $75,000 | approved, future | Playing Together: Using Learning Labs to Reduce Exclusionary Disciplinary Practices for Young Children of Color with Disabilities | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Emory University Atlanta, GA | U | $75,000 | approved, future | The Bereavement Achievement Gap: Black-White Disparities in Mortality and Educational Attainment | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Chicago, IL | C | $75,000 | paid | Chicago Community COVID-19 Response Fund | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | U | $75,000 | approved, future | Nobody Asked Me Campaign: Co-producing Policies and Re-imagining Educational Equity | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA | B | $75,000 | approved, future | Shunning, Symbolic, or Sweeping: An Examination of Higher Education Reparations at Universities Founded Pre-Civil War | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Maryland at College Park College Park, MD | U | $75,000 | approved, future | Representation Matters: Addressing the Latinx/a/o Leadership Crisis in Higher Education | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The University of Chicago Chicago, IL | U | $75,000 | paid | Turntabling Scaffolded STEM Learning and Evaluation | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Education Trust Washington, DC | B | $75,000 | paid | Rapid Research Grant with WT Grant: Unfinished Instruction and Reductions in Force | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Rhode Island Foundation Kingston, RI | C | $75,000 | approved, future | The impacts of antiracist practices in gateway introductory biology courses | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | American Educational Research Association Washington, DC | B | $75,000 | paid | Capacity Building, Communicating, and Valuing Diversity in Scholarship and Scholarly Work | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Leap Innovations Chicago, IL | B | $75,000 | approved, future | K-12 Remote Learning, Race, and Innovation | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Milpa Salinas, CA | B | $74,998 | approved, future | House of Youth: Community-Based Transformative Teachings among Formerly-Incarcerated Chicanx-Indigenous Youth in California | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University Tempe, AZ | B | $74,965 | approved, future | Re-Imagining Latinx Adolescents Academic Success: How Cultural Assets and Social Relationships Protect Against the Effects of Discrimination | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Regents of the University of California at San Diego La Jolla, CA | B | $74,953 | approved, future | Examining Land Acknowledgment Statements at Land-Grant Universities | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Michigan State University East Lansing, MI | U | $74,514 | approved, future | Forms of Freedom: The Art and Design of Black and Indigenous Creative Public Pedagogies | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Ohio State University Columbus, OH | U | $72,074 | approved, future | A Constitutional Right to Education: A Multi-case Analysis of k12 Educational Jurisprudence Among the United States Circuit Courts | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Brandeis University Waltham, MA | B | $66,453 | paid | Rapid Research Grant with WT Grant: R3 Including Children of Immigrants in the Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery Efforts and Safety Net | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Board of the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL | B | $60,000 | paid | 2020 Spencer Mentor Award - College of Education Writing Extravaganza | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University Corporation at Monterey Bay Seaside, CA | C | $60,000 | approved, future | Writing from the Heart: Teacher Inquiry into Culturally Sustaining Writing Pedagogy | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Dine College Tsaile, AZ | B | $60,000 | paid | Interview-Based Psychosocial Support/Storytelling Program for Covid-19 in Rural Navajo Nation | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Boise State University Boise, ID | B | $59,200 | approved, future | More Than an Athlete: Exploring High School Athletes Engagement in Activism | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education (nshe) Reno, NV | D | $57,245 | approved, future | Serving the Public Good: Exploring the Role of Minority Serving Institutions in the Civic Development of Racial/Ethnic Minoritized Students | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Arizona Tucson, AZ | U | $50,000 | approved, future | Cutting Ties: How Three School Systems Respond to the Termination of Contracts for School Police Officers | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Salzburg Salzburg | U | $50,000 | paid | NORMATIVE CONTESTATION IN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS: A COMPARATIVE EXAMINATION OF MIGRANT EDUCATION IN BALKAN ROUTE COUNTRIES | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita Di Bologna Bologna | U | $50,000 | paid | Gender Differences in STEM: Can Teaching Girls to Code Close the Gaps? | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA | U | $50,000 | paid | The role of semantic similarity in vocabulary learning | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | B | $50,000 | approved, future | What is Black Male Pedagogy? Investigating the Pedagogical Practices and Lived Experiences of National Board Certified Black Male Teachers | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, TX | B | $50,000 | paid | Why PAR? Utilizing Participatory Action Research as a Community-Based Approach to Educational Leadership and Principal Preparation | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Trustees of Purdue University West Lafayette, IN | B | $50,000 | approved, future | Repeating acute exercise effects to maximize brain function, cognition, and academic achievement in school-aged children | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc Athens, GA | B | $50,000 | paid | Setting the Agenda for Research and Practice: Exploring the Tensions and Possibilities of Homeschooling | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL | C | $50,000 | paid | English Learner and Immigrant-Origin Youth and Families: A Comparative Case Study of Learning Experiences During and Following the COVID-19 Pandemic | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, AL | B | $50,000 | approved, future | Impact of the COVID-19 on Families of Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities: Learning through Family Photos and Stories | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Urbana, IL | B | $50,000 | approved, future | Direct Admissions: Reducing Economic, Racial, and Geographic Inequality in College Access | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of South Florida Tampa, FL | U | $50,000 | approved, future | Using Discrete Event Simulation to Improve School Mental Health Services | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Old Dominion University Research Foundation Norfolk, VA | B | $50,000 | paid | Exploring the Inclusiveness of Integrated, General Physical Education among Youth with Visual Impairments | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Phi Delta Kappa International Arlington, VA | C | $50,000 | approved, future | Spencer Supported Articles | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Colorado Seminary Denver, CO | U | $50,000 | paid | Income-Share Agreements in Postsecondary Education: An Exploratory Multiple Case Study | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Northeastern Illinois University Chicago, IL | B | $50,000 | approved, future | Mapping the Intersections of Post-Secondary Education / Incarceration | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Regents of the University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN | U | $50,000 | paid | 2020 Convening to Discuss Civil Rights Reform in Education | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Western Illinois University Macomb, IL | B | $50,000 | paid | Teaching for Equity in a Pandemic Hotspots: Reaching Multilingual and Low-income Students in Two Rural Schools | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Gettysburg College Gettysburg, PA | U | $50,000 | approved, future | Decolonial Peace and Justice Education: A Transatlantic Study of Four Afro-Centric Youth-based Organizations | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | New York University New York, NY | B | $50,000 | approved, future | Making Mindfulness Stick: Encouraging Daily Meditation Practice for Student Mental Well-being | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA | U | $50,000 | approved, future | Translating Critical Race Research for Evidenced-Based Policymaking | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Oklahoma Norman, OK | U | $50,000 | approved, future | Colloquium on College Sport (In)Equity: Working within and beyond the law to achieve intersectional racial justice praxis | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Conversation US Inc Waltham, MA | B | $50,000 | approved, future | Expanding the Education Section of The Conversation | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Clemson University Clemson, SC | B | $50,000 | paid | We'll be Fired: A Critical Examination of the Equity Work of Rural Educational Leaders | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Singapore Management University Singapore | U | $50,000 | approved, future | When Access is Not Enough: How Chronic Stress Affects Psychological Well-Being And Persistence Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged University Students | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Chalkbeat New York, NY | U | $50,000 | paid | 2020 Support | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Hawaii Foundation Honolulu, HI | C | $50,000 | paid | Indigenous Knowledge Education (IKE) and the Rapid Remote Learning Pivot | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Common App Inc Arlington, VA | D | $50,000 | approved, future | Long-Term Effects of Banning the Box in College Admissions | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA | U | $50,000 | paid | Broadening Access to Undergraduate Research for Underserved Students in STEM amid Unprecedented Times | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Chicago Public Media Chicago, IL | B | $50,000 | paid | Education Reporting from the WBEZ Newsroom | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Facing History and Ourselves Brookline, MA | C | $50,000 | paid | Chicago Racial History Project | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Saint Mary's College of California Moraga, CA | B | $50,000 | approved, future | COVID-19 and Black Students' College Choice: The Role of Race, Class, and School Context during a Global Pandemic | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Kent State University Foundation Kent, OH | B | $50,000 | paid | The production, circulation, and impact of teacher activist knowledge in the struggle for state education policy change | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Youth Mentoring Action Network Ontario, CA | C | $50,000 | paid | Valuing our Work: Documenting the Mentoring Experiences of Black Women and Girls | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University College London London | U | $50,000 | paid | Training a Good Ear Promotes Successful Second Language Speech Acquisition: Interfacing Neuroscience, Hearing, and Education Research Perspectives | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalem Jerusalem | U | $50,000 | approved, future | Queer Pedagogy: Practical Knowledge and Theory | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Texas A&m University College Station, TX | U | $50,000 | approved, future | Evaluating the Spillover Effects of Higher Education: Evidence from the End of the Student Benefit Program | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | William Marsh Rice University Houston, TX | B | $50,000 | paid | National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships Early Childhood Education Subnetwork | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Northeastern University Boston, MA | U | $49,999 | approved, future | Biographical Disruption? Transitions from College to Adulthood Amid the Pandemic and Its Aftermath: A Longitudinal Study | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Dickinson College Carlisle, PA | U | $49,997 | paid | Untethered Ties: Parents' Neighborhood Networks in the Era of School Choice | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN | B | $49,997 | paid | Test Mode and Students Test Taking Experience: Investigating Test Anxiety, Perceived and Actual Performance Differences among Underrepresented Groups in STEM | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT | B | $49,995 | approved, future | Lets Talk About Election 2020: Mapping Quantitative Civic Literacies in Youth Video Composition in an Online Digital Network | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University System of New Hampshire Durham, NH | B | $49,991 | approved, future | Making Race Visible in Predominantly White Communities: Perspectives of Teachers and Administrators | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Seton Hall University South Orange, NJ | U | $49,989 | approved, future | The Influence of Internships on the Career Ideas and Goals of Women in Computer Science | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Louisville Research Foundation Louisville, KY | C | $49,983 | paid | Social Bonding Among Low-Income Students from Immigrant Families in a Peer-Mentoring Program | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Utah State University Logan, UT | U | $49,981 | paid | Designing Culturally Disruptive Curricula to Develop Cultural Competence in Sixth Graders | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | George Washington University Washington, DC | B | $49,980 | paid | Transforming Teacher Well-Being: A Participatory Approach to Empower and Enrich Educators | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA | U | $49,967 | approved, future | The Pathways to Belonging and Engagement Project: Testing a Tailored Social Belonging Intervention at an Urban Public University | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Governors of the University of Calgary Calgary | D | $49,953 | paid | Canadian and American Youth Perspectives on Media Related to COVID-19 | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Nwea Portland, OR | U | $49,950 | paid | English Learner Pathways in Community College | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Ottawa, Ontario | D | $49,950 | approved, future | The Efficacy of 3D Motion Capture as a Reflective Aid during Self-Directed Practice for Laparoscopic Surgical Trainees | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Oregon Eugene, OR | B | $49,939 | approved, future | Examining the Relation between Pre-service Teachers Implicit Racial Biases and Cortisol Response | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Board of the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL | B | $49,936 | approved, future | Investigation of the Intensification of a Comprehension Intervention Using Student Data | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA | B | $49,926 | approved, future | Implementing Ethnic Studies in K-12 Settings: A Community-Engaged Ethnography | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation (windref) True Blue | U | $49,920 | paid | The Center for Research on Storytelling in Education - Spring 2021 Research Conference | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Colgate University Hamilton, NY | B | $49,916 | paid | Examining the Role of Tuition-Free Private Schools in the Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Cape Town Cape Town | U | $49,913 | paid | The COVID-19 health crisis and inequalities in tertiary education in South Africa | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Birmingham Birmingham | U | $49,910 | approved, future | A preliminary investigation into the learning of sacred languages | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (pasgr) Nairobi | U | $49,899 | paid | Gendering Policy-engaged Education Research in Africa | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Georgia State University Research Foundation Atlanta, GA | C | $49,888 | approved, future | The role of gesture in video-learning for children with autism and with typical development | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Washington State University Pullman, WA | U | $49,862 | paid | Humanities Extension: Connecting Learning and Thriving through Land-grant Collaboration | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Depaul University Chicago, IL | B | $49,850 | paid | Tech Tales and Narratives | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | York University Toronto, Ontario | D | $49,782 | approved, future | Returns at Risk: COVID-19 and Girls' Education in Malawi | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Maine System Orono, ME | C | $49,729 | paid | Leading through crisis: Understanding school leader decision-making about basic needs provision for students in the context of social and spatial inequality | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Ewha Womans University Seoul | U | $49,720 | paid | Evaluating the Quality of Common Items using Differential Item Functioning and Item Parameter Drift in Longitudinal TIMSS Data Sets during 2007 2019 | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Clark University Worcester, MA | U | $49,627 | approved, future | Measurement of Parent and Teacher Critical Consciousness | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Regis University Denver, CO | U | $49,600 | approved, future | Assessing the impacts of a decolonizing pedagogy: Classroom learning and post-classroom outcomes | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | U | $49,564 | paid | Suburban Schools, Urban Realities?: A Conference on Suburban Diversity and Opportunity | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Temple University Philadelphia, PA | U | $49,551 | paid | #RealCollege Research Collaborative | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of San Francisco San Francisco, CA | U | $49,543 | paid | Dismantling structural racism in teacher education: Identifying the invisible barriers to diversifying the teacher pipeline, examining the effects of CBEST and CSET on admission to teacher credential programs | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Board of Curators of the University of Missouri Kansas City, MO | U | $49,410 | paid | Qualitative Study of Teachers Gestures in Preschool Classrooms | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Fayetteville State University Fayetteville, NC | B | $49,357 | paid | Exploring College Campus Readiness to Address Intimate Partner Violence Among Sexual and Gender Minority (or LGBTQ+) Students | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Sydney Camperdown | U | $48,980 | paid | The Long-term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs on Human Capital: What has been Accomplished Over the Last Two Decades? | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Rutgers the State University of New Jersey Piscataway, NJ | U | $48,510 | approved, future | Other Suns: Designing for Racial Equity through Speculative Education | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA | B | $48,432 | paid | Developmental education for college students with learning and attention disabilities: A benefit or detriment for persistence? | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | President and Trustees of Bates College Lewiston, ME | B | $48,398 | paid | Disappearing the Delta?: How school closures shape rural African-American communities in the Arkansas Delta | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | President and Fellows of Middlebury College Middlebury, VT | B | $47,819 | paid | Producing Mobility: The Effects of Parental Involvement on the Postsecondary Enrollment of First Generation College Students | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Swinburne University of Technology Hawthorn | U | $45,250 | approved, future | Studying Regionally: Experiences of University Students on Regional Campuses | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX | U | $45,000 | approved, future | The Origins and Early Evolution of the SAT, 1926-1970 | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Utah Valley University Orem, UT | B | $45,000 | approved, future | Front-Line Students: A Study of Student Custodial Worker Learning During the Covid19 Pandemic | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of South Carolina Columbia, SC | U | $44,294 | approved, future | From Cash Cows to Yellow Peril: Examining the Positioning of Asian International Students in the United States in Contentious Times | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX | U | $43,210 | approved, future | Science Teachers Experiences Learning about African American English (STELAAE) | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities New York, NY | D | $42,910 | paid | International Conference: Democratic Education Needs Imagination | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Regents of the University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA | C | $41,668 | approved, future | Rapid Research Grant with WT Grant: Research for Reimagining Community Safety | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA | U | $40,766 | paid | When English Learners with Disabilities Become Long-Term English Learners | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University System of Maryland Foundation Inc Adelphi, MD | U | $40,000 | paid | Urban Computing Education Ecosystem Study | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC | D | $39,000 | approved, future | Reclaim, Redress, Reconnect: Towards a Theory and Practice of Restorative History | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Forefront Chicago, IL | C | $32,750 | paid | 2020-21 Membership Renewal | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Chapman University Orange, CA | U | $31,633 | paid | It Takes a Village: Investigating Parents Experiences in School-Family Partnerships Across Three Public School Contexts | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Drexel University Philadelphia, PA | U | $31,531 | paid | Rapid Research Grant with WT Grant: Safely Keeping Youth In Communities and Out of Detention In Response to COVID-19 | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Regents of the University of California at Riverside Riverside, CA | B | $30,000 | paid | Evaluation of the Chicago Public Schools Civics Initiative - Year 3 | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Chicago Learning Exchange Chicago, IL | C | $30,000 | paid | Chicago Learning Exchange (CLX): Connecting Chicagos Learning Ecosystem Leaders | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | New Schools Fund San Francisco, CA | C | $30,000 | approved, future | Racial Equity Funder Community of Practice | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | George Mason University Fairfax, VA | U | $28,200 | paid | The Good Schools: The Effects of Student Growth Data on Parental School Preferences | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Arizona Board of Regents for and On Behalf of Northern Arizona Universi Flagstaff, AZ | U | $26,612 | paid | Advancing Gender Equity in STEM: The Role of Community College Transfer in Broadening Computing Participation | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks DBA the Wild Center Tupper Lake, NY | D | $25,000 | paid | Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE): Building a U.S. National Strategic Planning Framework | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Washington, DC | B | $25,000 | approved, future | Black Voices for Black Justice Fund | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Redwood City, CA | C | $25,000 | paid | Mentorship Award | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Trustees of Princeton University Princeton, NJ | U | $22,514 | paid | Public School Ratings And Residential Place Discrimination | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Northeastern University Boston, MA | U | $19,968 | paid | Rapid Research Grant with WT Grant: Preserving Summer Employment Opportunities for Inner City Youth During the COVID19 Pandemic | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Council On Foundations Inc Washington, DC | B | $19,000 | approved, future | 2021 Membership Renewal | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Regents of the University of Colorado Boulder, CO | C | $15,000 | approved, future | The Price of Opportunity Project: Shifting the Resource Inequity Discourse | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | American University Washington, DC | U | $15,000 | paid | Research Communications Plan for 'Teachers' Mental Health' | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Hawai'i Honolulu, HI | B | $15,000 | paid | Research Communications Plan for 'Forward Without Fear: Native Hawaiians Contesting Americanization in Territorial Hawaii's Public Schools, 1900-1941' | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | International Society of the Learning Sciences Inc Bloomington, IN | U | $15,000 | paid | International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2020 | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Regents of the University of Colorado Boulder, CO | C | $15,000 | paid | Designing a multi-generational, multi-sited, and international learning collective | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Research Foundation for the State University of New York Albany, NY | B | $15,000 | paid | Research Communications Plan for 'Suspending Society's Obligations: Adolescent School Outcomes and Risk Behaviors Under Differing School Discipline Policies' | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Yale University New Haven, CT | U | $13,609 | paid | New York City School Integration Activists during covid-19 | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Maryland at Baltimore County Baltimore, MD | U | $13,336 | approved, future | Research Communications Plan for 'Examining the transformative potential of teachers within a full-service community high school' | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Independent Sector Washington, DC | B | $12,500 | paid | 2021 Membership Renewal | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Clark University Worcester, MA | U | $10,920 | paid | Research Communications Plan 'Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Adoptive Parents Experiences in Elementary School' | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC | B | $10,000 | paid | 2020 Spencer Mentor Award - Winter Mentoring Retreat | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT | B | $10,000 | paid | 2020 Spencer Mentor Award | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Social Science Research Council Brooklyn, NY | B | $10,000 | paid | 2020 Spencer Mentor Award | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of San Francisco San Francisco, CA | U | $9,500 | approved, future | Research Communication Plan for 'Preparing Teachers to Teach Controversial Issues: A Cross-National Study' | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Forefront Chicago, IL | C | $6,500 | approved, future | 2021 Connecting Community and Philanthropy Event & Additional Support | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Kansas Center for Research Inc Lawrence, KS | B | $6,306 | paid | Segregation Unbound: School Enrollment Processes at the Intersection of Gentrification and Charter Schooling | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | University of Delaware Newark, DE | U | $6,221 | paid | Developing Middle-School Students Understandings of Coordinate Systems (Mid-CoS) Project | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Robert R Mccormick Foundation Chicago, IL | U | $5,000 | paid | Creating Pathways for ALAANA Evaluators Planning Grant | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Kidz Express Chicago, IL | D | $5,000 | paid | Chicago Education Community Micro-Grant for Kidz Express | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Resilience Partners Nfp Chicago, IL | B | $5,000 | paid | Support for the Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative 4th Annual Urban Native Education Conference: Indigenous Futures 2020 | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Reading in Motion Chicago, IL | C | $5,000 | paid | Chicago Education Community Micro-Grant for Reading in Motion | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Praize Productions Inc Chicago, IL | C | $5,000 | paid | Chicago Education Community Micro-Grant for Praize Productions, Inc. | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc Chicago, IL | B | $5,000 | paid | Chicago Education Community Micro-Grant for Breakthrough | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | The Association for the Study of Higher Education (ashe) Las Vegas, NV | U | $5,000 | paid | ASHE Research to Practice Project | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Debate It Forward Chicago, IL | U | $5,000 | paid | Chicago Education Community Micro-Grant for Debate It Forward | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Chicago Run Chicago, IL | C | $5,000 | paid | Chicago Education Community Micro-Grant for Chicago Run | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Musical Arts Institute Chicago, IL | B | $5,000 | paid | Chicago Education Community Micro-Grant for Musical Arts Institute | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Teachers Supporting Teachers Chicago, IL | C | $5,000 | paid | Chicago Education Community Micro-Grant for Teachers Supporting Teachers | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Metropolitan Family Services Chicago, IL | C | $5,000 | paid | Chicago Education Community Micro-Grant for the ACT Now Illinois Project | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Georgia State University Research Foundation Atlanta, GA | C | $4,369 | paid | The role of children's vocabulary knowledge in detecting conflicts and evaluating sources when reading multiple Internet texts | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Grantmakers for Education Portland, OR | C | $4,200 | paid | 2020-21 Annual Contribution | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (lvejo) Chicago, IL | C | $4,000 | paid | Chicago Community COVID Micro-Grant for Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Storycatchers Theatre Chicago, IL | U | $4,000 | paid | Chicago Community COVID Micro-Grant for Storycatchers Theatre | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Mikva Challenge Grant Foundation Inc Chicago, IL | B | $4,000 | paid | Chicago Community COVID Micro-Grant for Mikva Challenge | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Icna Relief Glendale Heights, IL | U | $4,000 | paid | Chicago Community COVID Micro-Grant for ICNA Relief | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Girlforward Chicago, IL | B | $4,000 | paid | Chicago Community COVID Micro-Grant for Girl Forward | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Red Clay Dance Company Chicago, IL | C | $4,000 | paid | Chicago Community COVID Micro-Grant for Red Clay Dance Company | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Chicago Persian School Des Plaines, IL | C | $4,000 | paid | Chicago Community COVID Micro-Grant for Chicago Persian School | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | One Million Degrees Chicago, IL | B | $4,000 | paid | Chicago Community COVID Micro-Grant for One Million Degrees | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Math Circles of Chicago Chicago, IL | C | $4,000 | paid | Chicago Community COVID Micro-Grant for Math Circles of Chicago | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Brighton Park Neighborhood Council Chicago, IL | B | $4,000 | paid | Chicago Community COVID Micro-Grant for Brighton Park Neighborhood Council | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | St Kateri Center Chicago, IL | U | $4,000 | paid | Chicago Community COVID Micro-Grant for St. Kateri Young Native Leaders | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | Brown Books and Paint Brushes Chicago, IL | U | $4,000 | paid | Chicago Community COVID Micro-Grant for Brown Books and Paint Brushes | 202123129349101612 |
| 2021 | New Community Outreach Chicago, IL | B | $4,000 | paid | Chicago Community COVID Micro-Grant for New Community Outreach | 202123129349101612 |
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