Grants and research partnerships
Child welfare, juvenile justice, and family economic security, with a strong applied bent: the foundation funds work that changes what public systems do, and publishes the data behind it.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)Much of the portfolio is commissioned rather than competed, so published bands mean little.
- Timing
- By invitationNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Largely relationship and concept-paper driven.
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Community organisation
- Eligibility
- Heavily weighted toward organisations already working with public child welfare and juvenile justice systems.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- public systems · juvenile justice · family economic security · data
- Apply at
- https://www.aecf.org/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
Also on the Child Welfare shelf
- Research and evaluation grantsOffice of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and FamiliesAmount not published · Periodic calls
- Research Grants on Reducing Inequality and on Improving the Use of Research EvidenceWilliam T. Grant Foundation$100k–$1M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Aug
- Fund for Research and ExperimentationFahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation$5k–$20k · Annual cycle · May, Nov
- Young Scholars ProgramFoundation for Child Development$100k–$250k · Annual cycle
- Federal prize competitions and challengesU.S. federal agencies (Challenge.gov)$5k–$500k · Rolling / open
- Grants.gov — the federal opportunity indexU.S. federal governmentNot a cash award · Rolling / open