William T. Grant Foundation

The William T. Grant Foundation is an American non-profit foundation that funds research in the social sciences, with a particular focus on youth development and inequality. It also funds post-doctoral researchers in a wide variety of disciplines through its William T. Grant Scholars Program, and through its Youth Service Grants.

The William T. Grant Foundation was established in 1936, originally as the Grant Foundation, by American businessman and philanthropist William Thomas Grant. In 1938, the Foundation funded its first major research project, the Grant Study at Harvard University, in which some of the subjects were followed for over 75 years. In 1977, it was renamed the William T. Grant Foundation, two years after Grant's W. T. Grant store franchise went bankrupt.

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