Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• Your work fits if it can be shown to advance one of the foundation's stated areas: transforming health and healthcare systems, healthy communities, healthy children and families, or leadership for better health.
• No geographic focus is stated, so location alone should not decide whether you apply.
• Grants are usually modest: about 8 in 10 fall between $250 and $480,000, with a median of about $24,000, and the largest was about $12,000,000, so a request in that typical range is realistic, though the band is not a ceiling.
• Grants typically begin with a competitive call for proposals that sets out eligibility criteria, so watch for calls and check the criteria before applying, since the filing gives no deadlines and says it accepts applications.
• Because about 84% of grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had funded before, the process appears competitive and relationship-led, but a first approach is still worth making when a call matches your work.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities · 79658 advancing racially equitable economic, tax, and social policy in states and growing essential state policy infrastructure
  $12,152,0002024 tax year
• Community Catalyst · 80588 serving as the national coordinating/program office for rwjf's voices for health justice authorization
  $8,620,0002024 tax year
• University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · 80417 continuing the county health rankings & roadmaps' path in developing narratives to address the structural drivers of health inequities
  $7,437,2482024 tax year
• Vose River Charitable Fund · 78878 transforming local data environments through principles of health equity and justice to enable a better use of local data infrastructure and systems
  $5,817,5552024 tax year
• Economic Policy Institute · 81568 anchoring work to make families an economic priority through the support of a new policy ecosystem -- economic policy institute
  $5,220,0002024 tax year
• Family Values Work, A Multistate Consortium · 81571 anchoring work to make families an economic priority through the support of a new policy ecosystem -- family values @ work
  $5,220,0002024 tax year
• Borealis Philanthropy · 82080 supporting the black-led movement fund and disability inclusion fund in catalyzing investments in the racial justice and disability justice movements
  $4,500,0002024 tax year
• Princeton University · 81812 continuing direct technical assistance to states, including promoting community leadership in policymaking and advancing health equity, 2024-2025
  $4,242,4042024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.