Russel Sage Foundation

In recent years, RSF has dramatically increased the number of grants devoted to qualitative research. Between fiscal year 2014 and fiscal year 2022, 66 grants have used qualitative methods as the sole or key component of the projects’ analytical strategy, and an additional 35 projects have used mixed methods. Read More

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 part by RSF. To date, the jointly funded special initiative has made 39 grants, funded two issues of our open-access journal, and supported three Summer Institutes in Migration Research Methods for early career scholars. Read More

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 systemic racial inequality and the social movements protesting such inequalities. Since that announcement, RSF has funded 46 grants on systemic racism across all RSF program areas, about 29% of all projects funded during this period. Six grants were co-funded by the JBP Foundation (marked with an * before the PI’s name) and one research grant (marked by an exclamation point) and the six Pipeline Grants were funded in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Grantees include communications scholars, economists, historians, political scientists, psychologists, public policy scholars, and sociologists. Read More

In spring 2020, RSF announced new research priorities focused on the many effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on social, political, or economic conditions in the U.S. Between 2021 and 2022, RSF funded 50 grants on the COVID-19 pandemic across all RSF program areas (about 31% of all projects funded during that period). Grantees include economists, education scholars, historians, law scholars, political scientists, psychologists, public policy scholars, and sociologists. (Eight grants were co-funded by the JPB foundation and the five Pipeline Grants were funded in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.) Read More

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. Over the last 20 years, RSF has made about 80 grants that have resulted in over 60 journal publications, six books, and other publications. Read More

Since 2014, RSF has made 27 housing-related grants totaling about $2 million in funding. Nine of the 27 grants were Pipeline Grants, funded in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Interest in the topic has increased in recent years; 15 of the 27 awards were funded in the last two years. This reflects, in part, interest in the federal eviction moratoria and concerns about housing insecurity in the wake of the pandemic. Nine grants totaling an additional $800,000 were made for projects where housing was not the central focus but which include a substantive housing-related focus. Grantees include economists, political scientists, psychologists, public and social policy scholars, public health scholars, social work scholars, sociologists, and urban planning scholars. Read More