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Grants to Urban Institute

Amount Purpose Term Source
$693,459 To improve the value of higher education. 2017 - 2020 LJAF
$700,000 To collaborate with EdBuild, Inc. to support policy research, education, and dissemination efforts related to school funding policy. 2016 - 2019 LJAF
$483,525 To expand access to information about public sector retirement systems. 2013 - 2014 LJAF
$149,617 To support the creation of a tool to effectively obtain, use, and analyze Social Security Administration data. 2015 - 2017 LJAF
$1,541,345 To support research on Social Security retirement and disability policy. 2018 - 2021 LJAF
$728,571 To assist with the Pension Tool. 2015 - 2020 LJAF
$210,425 To support modeling the distributional impact of the revenue and benefit changes proposed in Social Security solvency proposals from candidates for the 2020 presidential election. 2019 - 2020 LJAF
$10,027,309 To fund the Tax Policy Center. 2016 - 2019 LJAF
$15,000 To assess the budgeting process for state and local government and identify opportunities for greater impact. 2020 LJAF
$9,750,000 To support research to advance and elevate tax and spending policy. 2019 - 2022 LJAF
$2,744,707 To support the State and Local Finance Initiative. 2017 - 2021 LJAF
$331,481 To examine the New Markets Tax Credit and provide recommendations for how it can be improved. 2018 - 2021 LJAF
$185,802 To analyze the impact of the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on federal and state tax expenditures in the individual and corporate income tax systems. 2018 - 2020 LJAF
$741,482 To help governments implement and evaluate economic development initiatives. 2015 - 2019 LJAF
$263,803 To help improve the fiscal sustainability of state and local governments. 2016 - 2017 LJAF
$176,358 To fund the Tax Policy Center. 2015 - 2017 LJAF
$70,621 To identify key research questions and potential projects related to the federal government's New Markets Tax Credit program. 2015 - 2016 LJAF
$1,236,482 To fund the Tax Policy Center. 2014 - 2016 LJAF
$1,188,237 To develop an evidence-based policymaking collaborative. 2016 - 2019 LJAF
$385,946 To establish the Federal Evidence Forum. 2017 - 2020 LJAF
$8,414,313 To advance Pay for Success Financing. 2015 - 2019 LJAF
$842,613 To provide the Bureau of Justice Assistance with the staff capacity to adequately administer a competitive grant program designed to assist populations at risk from the opioid epidemic. 2019 - 2021 LJAF
$367,746 To increase transparency in the nationwide distribution of Medicaid reimbursement rates for commonly billed opioid use disorder treatment services and help establish reimbursement rate benchmarks for policymakers. 2020 - 2022 LJAF
$579,280 To drive attention to the issue of Medicare solvency and sustainability and make the case for meaningful Medicare reforms through robust analysis and development of effective policy options. 2021 - 2023 LJAF
$399,528 To analyze state-level data on prescription drugs used to treat opioid use disorder and opioid overdoses. 2018 - 2020 LJAF
$287,926 To develop a methodology to more accurately estimate drug rebates and discounts for use by researchers. 2020 - 2021 LJAF
$373,359 To assess the ability of newly available datasets to answer policy relevant questions for individuals enrolled in the both Medicaid and Medicare. 2020 - 2022 LJAF
$741,166 To conduct research projects examining the effects of the Medicare-Medicaid Financial Alignment Initiative demonstrations in Massachusetts and Washington. 2021 - 2023 LJAF
$349,850 To examine whether certain at-risk populations are more likely to have medical debt in collections on their credit record. 2021 - 2023 LJAF
$725,000 To support analysis on a range of issues related to implementing the public option in the employer markets in three states. 2021 - 2023 LJAF
$94,732 To update the Urban Institute's 2016 state survey of Medicaid physician fees. 2019 - 2020 LJAF
$599,300 To analyze the potential cost and coverage implications of introducing a healthcare public option and/or a capped payment rate program for private insurers. 2018 - 2020 LJAF
$251,309 To support research into hospital financial metrics and their impacts on commercial prices. 2021 - 2022 LJAF
$585,000 To build upon prior research analyzing design options for public option and rate cap proposals. 2020 - 2021 LJAF
$15,000 To support research and analysis of federal and state housing policy reforms. 2019 DAF
$50,000 To support research and policy analysis related to student debt cancellation. 2021 LJAF
$98,182 To evaluate a permanent supportive housing project conducted by Travis County, Texas. 2013 - 2015 LJAF
$75,810 To support analysis of short-term postsecondary programs and their outcomes for college students. 2020 - 2021 LJAF
$84,854 To assess challenges and opportunities of design choices for federal program-level metrics to advance accountability and transparency in higher education. 2020 - 2021 LJAF
$124,707 To support the development of outcomes-based accountability metrics for colleges. 2021 - 2022 LJAF
$150,000 To support research and policy synthesis around income-driven repayment. 2021 - 2022 LJAF
$651,035 To provide technical assistance to two states seeking to reform grant aid. 2019 - 2022 LJAF
$422,956 To build publicly accessible data infrastructure on higher education finance . 2019 - 2021 LJAF
$156,399 To build on the work of the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections. 2018 - 2021 LJAF
$10,000,000 To launch a prison research and innovation initiative to infuse transparency, accountability, and innovation into the prison sector. 2019 - 2024 LJAF
$360,241 To gather data on the state of prosecutorial decision making nationwide. 2016 - 2018 LJAF
$306,361 To conduct research on police body-worn cameras. 2015 - 2017 LJAF
$106,449 To build evidence for policing police responses to unsheltered homelessness 2020 - 2021 LJAF
$267,736 To evaluate the effectiveness of a supportive housing model for people with serious mental illness. 2019 - 2022 LJAF
$95,184 To support an interactive research feature that will identify revenue sources to replace revenues generated from fines, fees, and forfeitures. 2022 - 2023 LJAF
$749,668 To assess the impact of three community supervision policy reforms. 2018 - 2021 LJAF
$403,824 To design and pilot a procedural justice curriculum for probation officers. 2018 - 2021 LJAF
$87,886 To advance the development of participatory justice. 2018 - 2019 LJAF

Grants

Arnold Ventures funds projects to understand problems and identify policy solutions.