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Collection: The collection consists of administrative and grant records. Grant files typically include the initial research proposals, grant actions and award documents, and a final report; these are supplemented by grant-related reprints, conference papers and unpublished reports, bound separately and arranged by institution. Administrative files document the foundation's philosophical and structural evolution. Included are "Program Development and Evaluation" files that contain statistical analyses of funded programs, committee materials, and litigation documents pertaining to the bankruptcy of the W.T. Grant Company. Additional materials document particular programs and projects, such a the W.T. Grant Scholarships (1960-1969), the Faculty Scholars program, and the Commission on Work, Family and Citizenship.
Arrangement: Processed portions of the collection are open for research. Additional records will be available to researchers at a later date.
Photograph Collection: Yes
Organizational History: Throughout its existence, the William T. Grant Foundation has focused on research in the mental health of children and youth. William T. Grant (1876-1972) created the foundation in 1936 with the profits he earned from his chain of dry goods stores. He intended the foundation, he wrote, "to assist. . . people or peoples to live more contentedly and peacefully and well in body and mind through a better knowledge of how to use and enjoy all the good things that the world has to offer them." The foundation's first grant was to Harvard University for "a systematic inquiry into the kinds of people who are well and do well." The files document this grant and grants for research at major universities and such institutions as the Community Research Associates, the Society for Research in Child Development, the Tavistock Institute of Child Development, and the work of Anna Freud.
See: William T. Grant Foundation Finding Aid
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