Former and Current Presidents, Chief Operating Officers, and Trustees
| President | Term |
| Margaret Olivia Sage | 1907 - 1918 |
| Robert W. deForest | 1918 - 1931 |
| No President (General Director, Shelby Harrison, 1931-1948 |
1931 - 1936 |
| Lawson Purdy | 1936 - 1944 |
| Morris Hadley | 1944 - 1949 |
| Eli Whitney Debevoise | 1949 - 1955 |
| Donald R. Young | 1955 - 1963 |
| Orville G. Brim, Jr. | 1963 - 1972 |
| Hugh F. Cline | 1972 - 1976 |
| Aaron Wildavsky | 1976 - 1978 |
| David B. Truman | 1978 - 1979 |
| Marshall A. Robinson | 1979 - 1986 |
| Eric Wanner | 1986 - 2013 |
| Sheldon Danziger | 2013 - Present |
| Chief Operating Officers* | Term |
| John M. Glenn | 1907 - 1931 |
| Shelby M. Harrison | 1931 - 1948 |
| Donald R. Young | 1948 - 1963 |
| Orville G. Brim, Jr. | 1963 - 1972 |
| Hugh F. Cline | 1972 - 1976 |
| Aaron Wildavsky | 1977 - 1978 |
| David B. Truman | 1978 - 1979 |
| Marshall A. Robinson | 1979 - 1986 |
| Eric Wanner | 1986 - 2012 |
| Sheldon Danziger | 2013 - Present |
| *Prior to 1955, the chief operating officer of the Foundation held the title General Director; after 1955 the COO was the President. | |
| Former and Current Trustees | Term |
| John M. Glenn | 1907 - 1931 |
| Margaret Olivia Sage | 1907- 1918 |
| Robert W. deForest | 1907 - 1931 |
| Cleveland H. Dodge | 1907 - 1920 |
| Daniel C. Gilman | 1907 - 1908 |
| Helen M. Gould Shepard | 1907 - 1936 |
| Robert C. Ogden | 1907 - 1913 |
| Gertrude S. Rice | 1907 - 1926 |
| Louisa Lee Schuyler | 1907 - 1926 |
| Alfred T. White | 1909 - 1921 |
| John H. Finley | 1913 - 1940 |
| Charles D. Norton | 1918 - 1923 |
| Frederic A. Delano | 1921 - 1939 |
| Dwight W. Morrow | 1921 - 1931 |
| Lawson Purdy | 1923 - 1957 |
| Laura B. Lee | 1926 - 1938 |
| Harold T. White | 1926 - 1956 |
| Johnston deForest | 1931 - 1952 |
| Lindsay Bradford | 1933 - 1955 |
| Joseph P. Chamberlain | 1934 - 1949 |
| Morris Hadley | 1934 - 1949 |
| Harry Woodburn Chase | 1936 - 1954 |
| Arthur H. Ham | 1939 - 1947 |
| Robert M. MacIver | 1940 - 1964 |
| David H. Morris, Jr. | 1940 - 1967 |
| Eli Whitney Debevoise | 1945 - 1967 |
| Charles Merz | 1948 - 1966 |
| Donald R. Young | 1948 - 1967 |
| Daniel G. Tenney, Jr. | 1949 - 1967 |
| Carl I. Hovland | 1952 - 1961 |
| Samuel S. Wilks | 1953 - 1964 |
| Richard H. Shryock | 1955 - 1965 |
| Frederick G. Duncan | 1957 - 1973 |
| Robert K. Greenleaf | 1957 - 1965 |
| Dael L. Wolfle | 1961 - 1978 |
| Orville G. Brim, Jr. | 1963 - 1972 |
| Oscar M. Ruebhausen | 1964 - 1980 |
| Frederick Mosteller | 1964 - 1985 |
| Morris D. Crawford, Jr. | 1965 - 1979 |
| Abe Fortas | 1966 - 1969 |
| Francis Keppel | 1966 - 1972 |
| William C. Greenough | 1967 - 1978 |
| David B. Truman | 1967 - 1981 |
| Robert S. Morison | 1968 - 1978 |
| Warren H. Bacon | 1968 - 1980 |
| Edward H. Levi | 1971 - 1975 |
| Hugh F. Cline | 1972 - 1976 |
| Herma Hill Kay | 1973 - 1987 |
| Guido Calabresi | 1975 - 1981 |
| John S. Reed | 1975 - 1989 |
| Aaron Wildavsky | 1976 - 1978 |
| Thomas C. Edwards, Jr. | 1978 - 1984 |
| Robert McCormick Adams | 1978 - 1991 |
| William D. Carey | 1978 - 1983 |
| Marshall A. Robinson | 1979 - 1986 |
| Carl Kaysen | 1979 - 1989 |
| Earl F. Cheit | 1979 - 1989 |
| Madelon Talley | 1979 - 1989 |
| Gardner Lindzey | 1980 - 1990 |
| Patricia King | 1981 - 1991 |
| Renee Fox | 1981 - 1987 |
| Gary E. MacDougal | 1981 - 1991 |
| Philip Converse | 1982 - 1992 |
| James March | 1984 - 1994 |
| Mortimer Zuckerman | 1984 - 1986 |
| Eric Wanner | 1986 - 2013 |
| Anne Pitts Carter | 1987 - 1997 |
| Howard Raiffa | 1987 - 1997 |
| Harold Tanner | 1988 - 1998 |
| William Julius Wilson | 1988 - 1998 |
| Joel E. Cohen | 1989 - 1999 |
| Peggy C. Davis | 1989 - 1999 |
| Neil J. Smelser | 1990 - 2000 |
| Laura D. Tyson | 1991 |
| Phoebe C. Ellsworth | 1991 - 2001 |
| Marta Tienda | 1991 - 2001 |
| Ira Katznelson | 1992 - 2002 |
| Ellen C. Lagemann | 1993 - 2003 |
| Eugene Smolensky | 1994 - 2004 |
| Timothy A. Hultquist | 1995 - 2005 |
| Alan S. Blinder | 1996 - 2006 |
| Robert Denham | 1997 - 2007; 2009 - 2014 |
| Jennifer Hochschild | 1997 - 2007 |
| Thomas C. Cook | 1998 - 2008 |
| Christine Cassel | 1999 - 2006 |
| Cora Marrett | 1999 - 2009 |
| Melvin Konner | 2000 - 2010 |
| Kathleen Hall Jamieson | 2001 - 2011 |
| Lawrence Hedges | 2002 - 2012 |
| Mary Waters | 2002 - 2011 |
| John Ferejohn | 2003 - 2013 |
| Alan B. Krueger | 2004 - 2009 |
| Christopher Edley, Jr. | 2004 - 2009 |
| Kenneth Brody | 2005 - 2015 |
| Richard Thaler | 2006 - 2016 |
| W. Bowman Cutter, III | 2007 - 2017 |
| Nancy Rosenblum | 2007 - 2014 |
| Shelley E. Taylor | 2008 - 2018 |
| Lawrence F. Katz | 2009 - 2019 |
| Sara S. McLanahan | 2009 - 2019 |
| Claude M. Steele | 2010 - 2020 |
| Nicholas Lemann | 2011 - 2021 |
| Karen Cook | 2012 - Present |
| Sheldon Danziger | 2013 - Present |
| Kathryn Edin | 2013 - Present |
| Larry Bartels | 2013 - Present |
| Peter Orszag | 2014 - 2019 |
| Hiro Yoshikawa | 2015 - 2020 |
| David Laibson | 2015 - Present |
| Michael Jones-Correa | 2016 - Present |
| Martha Minow | 2016 - Present |
| Mario Luis Small | 2017 - Present |
| Cathy J. Cohen | 2018 - Present |
| Jason Furman | 2018 - Present |
| Marianne Bertrand | 2019 - Present |
| Hazel Rose Markus | 2019 - Present |
| Jennifer Richeson | 2019 - Present |
| David Leonhardt | 2020 - Present |
| Jennifer Lee | 2021 - Present |
| Thomas Sugrue | 2021 - Present |