[6] A PBS synopsis of the film portrayed its central ideas as follows:The Randolph Foundation was one source of funding for God and the Inner City, a one-hour 2003 documentary chiefly backed by the Pew Charitable Trusts which examined both faith-based and secular charities operating in inner-city environs.
[8] The foundation also provided financial support to Free to Choose Media for The Power of Choice, a 2007 film biography of Chicago School economist Milton Friedman.
[9] In 1993, the foundation began providing support to Marquette University political scientist Christopher Wolfe for a project that would eventually culminate in his 2006 book, Natural Law Liberalism.
The book, which won a 2004 award from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, targets the "educated lay person," offering public policy recommendations in keeping with the private, market approach to conservation.
The project, which has been in progress since 2003 and is also sponsored by several other organizations, Besides the research performed by Riley for God on the Quad, other studies funded by the Randolph Foundation examined higher education in the United States.
According to a description on the university's website, the fundamental questions to be addressed by the study relate to the fact that, In addition to sponsoring the projects noted above, TRF has also served as a source of funding for a number of other organizations,[1][22] including: