A.C. Ratshesky Foundation: Boston Grants
OVERVIEW: This funder supports early education, employment, and year-around/after school enrichment for preteens and teens. Programs that support disadvantaged Jewish populations in Boston are of...
View ArticleTrefler Foundation: Boston Grants
OVERVIEW: This funder supports Greater Boston nonprofits working in healthy food accessibility and programs that get urban youth involved in farming and gardening. It’s also a strong supporter of...
View ArticleEast Boston Foundation: Boston Grants
OVERVIEW: This funder provides grants to East Boston groups that promote youth and senior recreation, open space development, and local business enhancement. Grants are often between $1,000 and...
View ArticleKlarman Family Foundation: Boston Area Grants
OVERVIEW: Klarman has pronounced grantmaking criteria and focuses its grants in three areas: advancing understanding of the biological basis of health and illness; supporting the global Jewish...
View ArticleLiberty Mutual Foundation: Boston Grants
OVERVIEW: This funder provides grants for organizations providing education, health, and human services in the Boston area. Special priority is given to low-income youth and families, youth with...
View ArticleGermeshausen Foundation: Boston Grants
OVERVIEW: This funder got its start with arts and culture grants in Boston. Today, its focus has expanded to ethics and the environment, religion and ecology, youth and higher education, advocacy...
View ArticleJane's Trust via Hemenway & Barnes LLP: Boston Grants
OVERVIEW: This funder supports health and welfare organizations in the Boston area. The trust is administered by the law firm of Hemenway & Barnes LLP, with most grants in the $50,000 to $150,000...
View ArticleOrville W. Forté Charitable Foundation: Boston Grants
OVERVIEW: This funder exclusively supports organizations that work with disadvantaged youth in the Greater Boston area. Grants average $5,000 and go toward program and operating support. FUNDING AREAS:...
View ArticleLincoln & Therese Filene Foundation: Boston Grants
OVERVIEW: This funder was established by a well-known department store empire with deep roots in Boston and New England, and provides grants in the Greater Boston region in various civic and cultural...
View ArticleThe Lynch Foundation: Boston Grants
OVERVIEW: This funder is a big champion for the Greater Boston area, with a particular interest in education, and a preference for projects designed to bring long-term benefit, as opposed to meeting...
View ArticleRichard and Susan Smith Family Foundation: Boston Grants
OVERVIEW: This funder supports health, education, and economic mobility causes in the Greater Boston area. It provides small and mid-sized capital grants that local groups can apply for. FUNDING AREAS:...
View ArticleHighland Street Foundation: Boston Grants
OVERVIEW: This funder mostly supports the following causes in Boston, but also elsewhere in Massachusetts and occasionally in California: education, housing, mentorship, healthcare, environment, and...
View ArticleKarp Family Foundation: Boston Grants
OVERVIEW: The Karp Family Foundation is the charitable vehicle of shopping center magnate Stephen Karp and his wife, Jill. The couple's philanthropy focuses on the Boston area, extending to Nantucket....
View ArticleSidman Family Foundation: Boston Grants
OVERVIEW: The Sidman Family Foundation's Boston grantmaking involves supporting local hospitals, Jewish organizations, and more. Personal connections seem to animate much of this family's giving....
View ArticleThe Mooney-Reed Charitable Foundation: Boston Grants
OVERVIEW: The Mooney-Reed Charitable Foundation is the philanthropic vehicle of Boston area couple James and Lisa Mooney. The couple's giving through their foundation strongly focuses in on Catholic...
View ArticleLloyd Balfour Foundation: Boston Area Grants
OVERVIEW: The Balfour Foundation was formed as part of the academic memorabilia leader, Lloyd Balfour's will after his death in 1973. The foundation primarily funds educational institutions in the...
View ArticleBarr Foundation: Boston Area Grants
OVERVIEW: Barr is the largest private foundation in the state of Massachusetts, and it has both a local and a global focus. Its main domestic program areas are climate change, public education and the...
View ArticleBiogen Idec Foundation: Boston Area Grants
OVERVIEW: Biogen Idec Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Cambridge-based drug maker by the same name. The foundation gives to benefit the communities it operates in, primarily in North Carolina...
View ArticleBoston Foundation: Boston Area Grants
OVERVIEW: As the city's community foundation, The Boston Foundation has a broad impact on Boston fundraising. If you're interested in their funds, make sure you're focused on its five key impact areas,...
View ArticleNew Balance Foundation: Boston Area Grants
OVERVIEW: Childhood obesity is the foundation's focus, and only select cities in Massachusetts and Maine are considered for grants. FUNDING AREAS: Childhood obesity, education, athletics, environment,...
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