Revson focuses primarily on supporting postdoctoral researchers in the New York metro area. Since 2005, the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowship in Biomedical Science has been offered to over 120 outstanding researchers in their third or fourth years of postdoctoral studies at thirteen participating New York Metro area research institutions. Although private and governmental agencies offer two or three years of support for postdoctoral training, funding for the third and fourth years is rare. 

Over the past ten years, Senior Fellows have hailed from 24 countries and have reported over 1,000 scholarly publications to the Foundation, often featured in prestigious journals such as Nature and Cell. Program alumni frequently advance to distinguished academic roles, including lecturer and professor positions at Yale University, Weill Cornell, and Columbia University.

In 2023, the Revson Foundation broadened its programming by establishing an inaugural partnership with the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF). Through BWF’s Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP), the Revson Foundation provides three-year awards to support up to five postdoctoral researchers in the New York Metro area, aiming to foster diversity and excellence in the biomedical sciences.

The Foundation also supported 39 awards to fellows of the Weizmann Institute of Science Postdoctoral Program for Advancing Women in Science, which provided supplemental funding to Israeli women scientists receiving merit-based postdoctoral fellowship offers abroad until the program wound down in 2022.