Strategy & Policy Fellows Grant Program
Funding Amount
US $60,000
Deadline
Rolling / Open
Grant Type
foundation
Overview
Strategy & Policy Fellows Grant Program
Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Smith Richardson Foundation
Amount: US $60,000
Last Updated: March 09, 2025
Summary
The Smith Richardson Foundation's Strategy & Policy Fellows Grant Program supports emerging scholars and policy thinkers in American foreign policy and international relations. Annually, it offers three grants of $60,000 each for single-author book projects. This initiative aims to enhance the U.S. academic community's capacity for policy analysis by funding junior faculty, research associates, and post-docs engaged in relevant research, thus fostering the next generation of policy leaders.Overview
The Smith Richardson Foundation sponsors an annual Strategy and Policy Fellows grant competition to support young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. The purpose of the program is to strengthen the U.S. community of scholars and researchers conducting policy analysis in these fields. The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to enable the recipients to research and write a book. Within the academic community, this program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates, and post-docs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and writing. Within the think tank community, the program supports members of the rising generation of policy thinkers who are focused on U.S. strategic and foreign policy issues.Eligibility
You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Applicants must be an employee or affiliate of either an academic institution or a think tank.Please note that the Fellowship program will only consider single-author book projects.Ineligibility
It will not consider collaborative projects (e.g., edited or multi-authored books, conference volumes or reports, or a collection of previously published articles, chapters or essays.)What Smith Richardson Foundation Inc actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 282
- Total given
- $22.92M
- Median grant
- $50K
- Range
- $1,000–$400K
- By dollars: District of Columbia 46%, California 10%, Virginia 7%. Top recipient cities: Washington, DC; New York, NY; Greensboro, NC.
- 100% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 29% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
American Foreign Policy Council · Washington, DC
General operating support
$400K
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc · Washington, DC
General operating support
$400K
Stanford University · Stanford, CA
General operating support
$374K
Institute for the Study of War Inc · Washington, DC
General operating support
$322K
Center for Strategic and International Studies Inc · Washington, DC
General operating support
$300K
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