The National Endowment for Financial Education's mission is to provide funding for rigorous, innovative, and actionable research aimed at improving the public's financial well-being. Through supporting research that can profoundly contribute to financial education, they focus on leveraging studies to enhance understanding and application in the field.
The grant program from the National Endowment for Financial Education centers around funding research projects that are innovative, rigorous, and have a clear potential to enhance financial well-being. It is open to a variety of projects including original research questions and replication studies, specifically encouraging those that involve rigorous empirical and/or theoretical analysis. While original data gathering is welcomed, it is not a requisite for proposal submission. The grant program prioritizes projects under four main topics: effective measurement of financial literacy and outcomes, systemic inequality in financial education and wealth, addressing data and methodological limitations within financial education research, and focusing on the disparities in financial education exposure among the youth. This wide spectrum of research interests underscores a commitment to addressing and improving financial literacy and education across different demographics and societal challenges.