Boston Foundation Inc
Boston, MA · EIN 04-2104021. Reported 8,763 grants totalling $678.0M to 3,169 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
3,169organizations funded
$24,000median reported grant
$678.0Mgranted, 2020-2023
69%of grantees funded again the next year
2%of dollars to its largest recipient
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Boston Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T310).
- How spread out its giving is. 3,169 distinct organizations, with 2% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 69% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
3,169 recipients is a very large number, and it usually means a particular kind of funder. Grantmakers at this scale are normally donor-advised fund sponsors or workplace-giving platforms: the money is directed by thousands of individual account holders, not awarded by a committee. There may still be a grants programme here, but most of the list below is the sum of many separate donors' choices, and writing to the organization is unlikely to reach whoever chose them.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $24,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $50 and the largest $15.0M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Every organization it funded
All 3,169 recipients appear in its filings; the 250 largest are listed here. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- the clearest signal of who this grantmaker actually has a relationship with.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Miami Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | $15.2M | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc | Boston, MA | $12.0M | 13 | 4 | 2023 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $11.7M | 18 | 4 | 2023 |
| New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund Inc | Roxbury, MA | $11.3M | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boston Ballet Inc | Boston, MA | $9,814,202 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $9,459,914 | 18 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | $7,781,699 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Amherst College | Amherst, MA | $7,595,212 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Justice Catalyst Inc | New York, NY | $7,460,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Justice Catalyst Law Inc | New York, NY | $6,835,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Year Up Inc | Boston, MA | $6,524,000 | 11 | 4 | 2023 |
| New Profit Inc | Boston, MA | $6,080,000 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Embrace Boston Inc | Boston, MA | $5,961,655 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greenlight Fund Inc | Boston, MA | $5,943,125 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $5,463,396 | 12 | 4 | 2023 |
| New England Conservatory of Music | Boston, MA | $5,436,068 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Emerson Umbrella Inc | Concord, MA | $5,364,625 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Social Finance Inc | Boston, MA | $5,290,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Institute of Contemporary Art | Boston, MA | $4,561,400 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | $4,420,500 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | Boston, MA | $4,231,257 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $4,035,814 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $3,920,500 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| National Philanthropic Tr | Jenkintown, PA | $3,906,305 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Associates of the Boston Public Library Inc | Boston, MA | $3,841,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Entrepreneurship for All Inc | Lowell, MA | $3,730,000 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bpe Inc | Roxbury, MA | $3,586,972 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jumpstart for Young Children Inc | Boston, MA | $3,570,357 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Share Winter Foundation | Providence, RI | $3,563,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | $3,552,000 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | Boston, MA | $3,504,788 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $3,466,793 | 16 | 4 | 2023 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $3,223,005 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rockport Music Inc | Rockport, MA | $3,177,714 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| True Costs Initiative Inc | Brookline, MA | $3,155,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $3,146,750 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Intend Health Strategies | Dedham, MA | $3,054,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| City of Boston Trust Funds | Boston, MA | $3,029,694 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Uaspire Inc | Boston, MA | $2,899,488 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Weema International Inc | Acton, MA | $2,897,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boston Harbor Now Inc | Boston, MA | $2,854,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| City Year Inc | Boston, MA | $2,780,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc | Boston, MA | $2,693,123 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Wilderness Society | Washington, DC | $2,580,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fairvote | Silver Spring, MD | $2,571,172 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Endowment Foundation | Hudson, OH | $2,551,691 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rian Immigrant Center Inc | Boston, MA | $2,386,791 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Museum of Fine Arts | Boston, MA | $2,297,706 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Third Sector New England Inc | Boston, MA | $2,270,578 | 18 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trio New College Network Inc | Boston, MA | $2,150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | Madison, WI | $2,150,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Reservations | Boston, MA | $2,098,661 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | Needham, MA | $2,091,825 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston Inc | Boston, MA | $2,032,352 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Just Detention International Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $2,000,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Squashbusters Inc | Roxbury Crossing, MA | $1,983,400 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston a Corporation Sole | Braintree, MA | $1,943,543 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Salt Lick Incubator Incorporated | Belmont, MA | $1,902,983 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,875,641 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Democracy Matters Foundation | Washington, DC | $1,875,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Horizons for Homeless Children Inc | Roxbury, MA | $1,831,250 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | Boston, MA | $1,825,808 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Illinois Science and Technology Institute | Chicago, IL | $1,816,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Museum of Science | Boston, MA | $1,784,988 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Neighborhood Villages Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $1,783,800 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts | Springfield, MA | $1,764,400 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | Boston, MA | $1,746,593 | 12 | 4 | 2023 |
| Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | $1,745,125 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Southcoast Community Foundation Inc | New Bedford, MA | $1,670,500 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Justice Catalyst Partnerships Inc | Charlottesvle, VA | $1,600,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Noble and Greenough School | Dedham, MA | $1,588,400 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Edvestors Inc | Boston, MA | $1,566,000 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| 826 Boston Inc | Roxbury, MA | $1,538,300 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| La Colaborativa Inc | Chelsea, MA | $1,526,900 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Simmons University | Boston, MA | $1,517,039 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Essex County Community Fdn Inc | Beverly, MA | $1,498,000 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,449,500 | 10 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Hamilton College | Clinton, NY | $1,447,511 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Upstream USA Inc | Boston, MA | $1,430,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Economic Mobility Pathways Inc | Boston, MA | $1,406,646 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Environmental Working Group | Washington, DC | $1,401,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Friends of Arrow Street Arts Inc | Burlington, VT | $1,400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New England Aquarium Corporation | Boston, MA | $1,369,219 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Virginia Law School Foundation | Charlottesvle, VA | $1,360,000 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | New York, NY | $1,307,358 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cold Spg Hbr, NY | $1,300,000 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Open Source Election Technology Institute | Portland, OR | $1,276,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc | New York, NY | $1,268,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| United States Fund for Unicef | New York, NY | $1,266,436 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | Boston, MA | $1,237,000 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Baseball Inc | Roxbury, MA | $1,235,438 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $1,222,957 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Urban Institute | Washington, DC | $1,217,140 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc | Worcester, MA | $1,214,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rosies Place Inc | Boston, MA | $1,210,565 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc | Boston, MA | $1,178,590 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bowdoin College | Brunswick, ME | $1,166,500 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc | South Boston, MA | $1,166,140 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pro Publica Inc | New York, NY | $1,162,416 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Capital Good Fund | Providence, RI | $1,158,334 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Strategies for Children Inc | Boston, MA | $1,154,700 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc | Boston, MA | $1,151,300 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hackdiversity Inc | Boston, MA | $1,142,738 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc | Boston, MA | $1,134,000 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| East Boston Social Centers Inc | East Boston, MA | $1,133,509 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Impactassets Inc | Bethesda, MD | $1,125,250 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | Brighton, MA | $1,121,553 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Housing Partnership Fund Board | Boston, MA | $1,099,999 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $1,079,379 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Justice Resource Institute Inc | Needham, MA | $1,070,693 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Local Enterprise Assistance Fund Inc | Boston, MA | $1,070,209 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| World Central Kitchen Incorporated | Washington, DC | $1,062,652 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Wake Forest University | Winstonsalem, NC | $1,055,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Island Housing Trust Corporation | West Tisbury, MA | $1,023,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Uwm Foundation Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $1,020,000 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Sportmens Tennis & Enrichment Center Inc | Dorchester, MA | $1,019,475 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Institute for Nonprofit Practice Inc | Dedham, MA | $1,015,114 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Nectar Community Investments Inc | Lowell, MA | $1,014,375 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of the Lawrence Academy at Groton | Groton, MA | $1,014,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ascendus Inc | New York, NY | $1,013,125 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Social Innovation Forum Inc | Boston, MA | $1,013,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc | Boston, MA | $1,012,750 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | New York, NY | $1,012,687 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Unite America Institute Inc | Denver, CO | $1,011,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fenn School Inc | Concord, MA | $1,010,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bancroft Global Development | Washington, DC | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greenwave Organization Corp | New Haven, CT | $1,000,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| World Trade Center Performing Arts Center Inc | New York, NY | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| America Scores New England | East Boston, MA | $985,500 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Chorus America Association | Washington, DC | $982,916 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Bottom Line Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $977,500 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boston Debate League | Roxbury Xing, MA | $964,861 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of | New York, NY | $956,468 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc | Newton, MA | $955,461 | 14 | 4 | 2023 |
| Teach for America Inc | New York, NY | $931,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers Inc | Boston, MA | $925,250 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Alliance for Early College Inc | Weston, MA | $922,263 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Buckingham Browne and Nichols School | Cambridge, MA | $905,250 | 13 | 4 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Housing Investment Corp | Boston, MA | $905,208 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Zero to Three - National Center for Infants Toddlers and Families | Washington, DC | $901,260 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ride for Kids Inc | Goldens Brg, NY | $900,000 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lawrence Community Works Inc | Lawrence, MA | $898,000 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Service of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $897,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Groundtruth Project Inc | Boston, MA | $893,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Indian River Land Tr Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $891,500 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | West Nyack, NY | $888,200 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $887,800 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Vocational Service Inc | Boston, MA | $887,300 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boston College Trustees | Chestnut Hill, MA | $878,037 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Public Garden Inc | Boston, MA | $876,904 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| St Johns College in Santa Fe | Santa Fe, NM | $875,000 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trinity Boston Connects | Boston, MA | $874,500 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc | Hanover, MA | $868,781 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| International Institute of New England Inc | Boston, MA | $867,400 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Berklee College of Music Inc | Boston, MA | $863,000 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Up Education Network Inc | Dorchester, MA | $861,250 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Resist Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $859,558 | 12 | 4 | 2023 |
| College Unbound | Providence, RI | $850,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Prime Coalition Inc | Cambridge, MA | $850,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boston Private Industry Council Inc the | Boston, MA | $845,500 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Womens Foundation of Massachusetts Inc | Boston, MA | $842,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Emmanuel Music Inc | Boston, MA | $826,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Asian Community Development Corp | Boston, MA | $817,825 | 12 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | Boulder, CO | $807,650 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Onegoal | Chicago, IL | $804,500 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology | Boston, MA | $802,500 | 13 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | $801,060 | 11 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lifebox Foundation Inc | Ithaca, NY | $800,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| English for New Bostonians Inc | Boston, MA | $798,932 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Huntington Theatre Company Inc | Boston, MA | $797,150 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $796,697 | 11 | 4 | 2023 |
| Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc | Boston, MA | $785,754 | 12 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ellis Early Learning Inc | Boston, MA | $768,552 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Record Company Inc | Boston, MA | $765,500 | 5 | 3 | 2022 |
| Cultural Alliance of Medfield | Medfield, MA | $765,000 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Grid Alternatives | Oakland, CA | $765,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Silent Spring Institute Inc | Newton, MA | $758,500 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Saint Anthony Shrine | Boston, MA | $756,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Innocence Project Inc | New York, NY | $755,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| City of Boston | Boston, MA | $753,500 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| St Boniface Haiti Foundation Inc | Newton, MA | $751,000 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Technoserve Inc | Arlington, VA | $751,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc | Cambridge, MA | $738,750 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Tenacity Inc | Allston, MA | $725,750 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boston Lyric Opera Company Inc | Boston, MA | $724,894 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boston Childrens Chorus Inc | Boston, MA | $722,900 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Womens Lunch Place Inc | Boston, MA | $720,950 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Oxfam-America Inc | Boston, MA | $719,314 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Homestart Inc | Boston, MA | $712,250 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Towards Justice of Colorado | Denver, CO | $710,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Inversant | Boston, MA | $699,417 | 5 | 3 | 2022 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Bethesda, MD | $698,080 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Vilna Shul Boston Center for Jewish Culture Inc | Boston, MA | $686,000 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Empower Schools Inc | Boston, MA | $682,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc | Roxbury Crossing, MA | $678,209 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Williams College | Williamstown, MA | $669,926 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| National Cyber Intelligence Center | Colorado Springs, CO | $666,569 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Foundation for Metrowest Inc | Natick, MA | $661,000 | 6 | 3 | 2022 |
| La Vida Inc | Lynn, MA | $656,408 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Steppingstone Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | $654,267 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Natural Resources Trust of Easton | North Easton, MA | $653,171 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Urban Revival Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $650,750 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| African American Quilt Guild of Gaston County | Kings Mtn, NC | $650,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy | Washington, DC | $650,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Uncornered Inc | Dorchester, MA | $646,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $643,110 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| More Than Words Inc | Waltham, MA | $641,750 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $638,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jobs for the Future Inc | Boston, MA | $628,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $627,540 | 4 | 1 | 2020 |
| Community Labor United Incorporated | Boston, MA | $627,500 | 8 | 3 | 2022 |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | Boston, MA | $626,160 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hildreth Institute Inc | Boston, MA | $625,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Smart From the Start Inc | Mattapan, MA | $623,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Healthy Community Alliance Inc | Gowanda, NY | $621,316 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Youth Villages Foundation Inc | Bartlett, TN | $620,500 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boston After School & Beyond Inc | Boston, MA | $620,250 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| Town & Village Conservative Synagogue Inc | New York, NY | $620,000 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| First Parish in Lexington | Lexington, MA | $617,500 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Saint Francis House Inc | Boston, MA | $615,678 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Esplanade Association Inc | Boston, MA | $613,870 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | Lincoln, MA | $613,439 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Food Project Inc | Lincoln, MA | $611,850 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Preparatory Foundation Inc | Hyde Park, MA | $609,250 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Heading Home Inc | Boston, MA | $609,087 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Interseminarian-Project Place Inc | Boston, MA | $607,946 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| City of Somerville | Somerville, MA | $606,780 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Educators for Excellence | New York, NY | $602,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Esperanza Academy Inc | Lawrence, MA | $601,500 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate Inc | Boston, MA | $600,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc | Boston, MA | $599,573 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts Inc | Fitchburg, MA | $593,753 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Margarita Muniz Academy Foundation Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $592,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Americus, GA | $588,662 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Resilient Coders Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $587,700 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc | Lowell, MA | $587,130 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Epiphany School Inc | Dorchester, MA | $580,250 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay Inc | Boston, MA | $579,400 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | $577,750 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | Newton, MA | $572,120 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc | Boothbay, ME | $570,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Utec Inc | Lowell, MA | $569,740 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Boston Education Development Foundation Inc | Roxbury, MA | $568,367 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Nonprofit Network Inc | Boston, MA | $568,100 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ja Worldwide Inc | Boston, MA | $560,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Asian American Civic Association Inc | Boston, MA | $558,000 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $554,427 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc | Boston, MA | $552,400 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| New England Venture Capital Association | Boston, MA | $550,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
1,864 of 3,169 (59%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
It also reported 13 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund Inc
Operating Support/Annual Fund - Franklin Education Forum
Immigrant and Refugee Support - Alternatives for Community and Environment Inc
Environment/Wildlife/Agriculture
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 2,610 of 3,169 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2,259 | $158.3M | $20,250 |
| 2021 | 2,413 | $185.8M | $20,750 |
| 2022 | 2,045 | $164.0M | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 2,046 | $169.9M | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
69% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $24,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Boston Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 1,855 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 75 Arlington Street Fl 3, Boston, MA, 02116.
EIN 04-2104021 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.
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