Youth Policy Lab completed nearly $3.5M of work during this fiscal year. We are pleased to work in many different impact areas, with Youth Mental Health and Social Emotional Learning continuing to be the most substantial one (similar to last year). In this fiscal year, we had new projects in Early Literacy and Math and Elementary and Secondary Education, leading those impact areas to constitute a larger portion of our work.
Youth Policy Lab deeply appreciates the foundations, government agencies, and individual donors whose generous support makes our work possible. We thank the funders that continue to invest in our research and evaluation projects as well as our programming initiatives. There were over 3 times as many new projects in FY 25-26 as compared to the prior year!
List of Funders - FY 25-26
- Accelerate - The National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning
- American Education Research Association
- Arnold Ventures, LLC
- Ballmer Group LLC
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
- Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce
- Gates Foundation
- Gift Funds
- Kresge Foundation
- Laura and John Arnold Foundation
- Livingston Educational Services Agency
- MDRC
- Michigan Health Endowment Fund
- Michigan Justice Fund
- Michigan Department of Education
- Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
- National Science Foundation
- Overdeck Family Foundation, Inc
- Public Welfare Foundation, Inc.
- Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation
- Reading Partners
- Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc
- Skillman Foundation
- Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc.
- The Spencer Foundation
- Transforming Research into Action to Improve the Lives of Students (TRAILS)
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention AND Department of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
- University of Connecticut
- University of Michigan (Gerald R. Ford School for Public Policy, Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center)
- University of Texas at Austin
- Urban Institute
- Wayne State University
- W. K. Kellogg Foundation