William T. Grant Scholars Program 2026

📝 About William T. Grant Scholars Program

The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. This program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas.

🎁 Benefits of the Program

• Award recipients are designated as William T. Grant Scholars.
• Each year, four to six Scholars are selected.
• Each Scholar receives $425,000 over five years, including up to 7.5% indirect costs.

✅ Eligibility Criteria

Eligible Organizations

• The Foundation makes grants only to tax-exempt organizations.
• Grants are not made to individuals.
• Proposals are encouraged from organizations under-represented among grantee institutions, including:
  • Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  • Hispanic-serving Institutions
  • Tribal Colleges and Universities
  • Alaska Native-Serving Institutions
  • Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions
  • Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions

Eligible Applicants

• Applicants must be nominated by their institutions.
  • Major divisions of an institution (e.g., College of Arts and Sciences, Medical School) may nominate only one applicant each year.
  • Applicants of any discipline are eligible.
• Applicants must have received their doctorate within seven years of submitting their application.
  • For medicine, the seven-year maximum is dated from the completion of the first residency.
• Applicants must be employed in career-ladder positions.
  • This typically means holding a tenure-track position in a university.
  • Applicants in other organizations should be in positions with a pathway to advancement in a research career.
  • The award may not be used as a post-doctoral fellowship.
• Applicants outside the United States are eligible.
  • Research must have compelling policy or practice implications for youth in the United States.
• The program strives to support a diverse group of researchers in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, and seniority.
  • Research projects led by Black or African American, Indigenous, Latinx, and/or Asian or Pacific Islander American researchers are encouraged.

📅 Application Date and Process

• Application Deadline: 30 June, 2026
• Applicants must visit the official application website to apply.

For more details, visit the official William T. Grant Scholars Program website.

• Award recipients are designated as William T. Grant Scholars. Each year, four to six Scholars are selected.
• Each Scholar receives exactly $425,000 over five years, including up to 7.5% indirect costs.