All research grant budgets must comply with the following requirements. Applicants must review this section before submitting an invited proposal as requirements may change.
Core Research Grants provide up to $200,000 for PhD holders for research projects aligned with RSF's research priorities.
In 2014, the Russell Sage Foundation launched research collaborations with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Over the last two years, 7 projects have been co-funded with the Kellogg Foundation and 9 projects have been co-funded with the MacArthur Foundation.
Since 2014, The Russell Sage Foundation has made 27 housing-related grants totaling about $2 million in funding.
RSF has a long history of funding research projects, working groups, and visiting scholars, as well as publishing books and journal issues on criminal justice, incarceration, and law enforcement, with an emphasis on racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities.
In spring 2020, The Russell Sage Foundation announced new research priorities focused on the many effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on social, political, or economic conditions in the U.S.
After the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent protests in the spring and summer of 2020, RSF announced that it would fund research examining systeming racial inequality and the social movements protesting such inequalities.
Since 2016, RSF has collaborated with the Carnegie Corporation of New York to support research that builds on the findings of the 2015 National Academies report on The Integration of Immigrants into American Society, which was funded.
In recent years, RSF has dramatically increased the number of grants devoted to qualitative research.