Established in 2015, the Foundation’s Margaret Olivia Sage Scholars program provides the opportunity for distinguished social scientists to spend brief periods in residence at the Russell Sage Foundation. The program is named in honor of RSF’s founder, Margaret Olivia Sage. Margaret Olivia Sage (MOS) Scholars are nominated and selected by the Foundation’s Board of Trustees on the basis of their outstanding career accomplishments.

On an occasional basis, the Foundation has one or two available office spaces and considers applications for short-term fellowships by scholars who are conducting research relevant to the Foundation’s priority areas. Visiting Researchers are provided with an office at the Foundation, computers and software, and library access. Applicants who reside outside of the greater New York City area may be provided with a partially-subsidized apartment near RSF, if available.

RSF publishes books on a wide variety of timely issues, with particular focus on topics related to our primary research programs: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality.

The Grants section contains information for grant seekers, including types of grants and application requirements, and information for current grantees, including reporting requirements and amendment requests. It also contains a searchable database of RSF grants.

The Foundation is devoted exclusively to strengthening the methods, data, and theories of the social sciences as a means of improving social policies and currently sponsors a number of core programs, working groups, and special initiatives.

There is a long, rich history of journalists writing and reporting compellingly about topics related to the Russell Sage Foundation’s mission to “improve the social and living conditions in the United States.” The growth of economic inequality and its consequences, inequities in educational achievement and attainment, the impact of modern immigration, and recent racial tensions over urban policing are all examples of topics addressed by journalists that are central to RSF programs, and which have been the subject of study by RSF scholars and grantees.

The Russell Sage Foundation’s Visiting Scholars Program provides a unique opportunity for select scholars in the social, economic, political and behavioral sciences to pursue their data analysis and writing while in residence at the foundation’s headquarters in New York City.

The Russell Sage Foundation's fellowships include Visiting Scholars, Visiting Researchers, and Margaret Olivia Sage Scholars. Research carried out by visiting fellows constitutes an important part of the foundation’s ongoing effort to analyze and understand the complex and shifting nature of social and economic life in the United States.