Funding search · economic mobility and poverty · Massachusetts
Who funds economic mobility and poverty work in Massachusetts
15 funders have a record of paying for economic mobility and poverty work by Massachusetts recipients: 117 grants totaling $45.7M, most recently in 2024 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Jpmorgan Chase Foundation ($10.5M), The Joyce Foundation ($3.0M) and Gates Foundation ($27.6M).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Massachusetts recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $1.7M to BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORP — in support of creating economic mobility and career pathways
Largest: $325,000 to Teach Plus Incorporated — education & economic mobility
Largest: $8.0M to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE — u.s. economic mobility & opportunity
Largest: $50,000 to COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN — economic mobility
Boston FoundationBoston, MACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $497,266 to Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath) — operating support/annual fund
Largest: $2,500 to ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS — supporting programs to help empath transform people's lives by helping them move out of poverty ...
Largest: $140,000 to ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC — support to research mobility coaching for young parents
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
4 matching grants · $750,000 · through 2023Largest: $150,000 to ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS — improve family economic security and child outcomes for low-income families of color by implementing economic mobility coaching within statewide early childhood organizations acros…
Largest: $55,000 to ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS — general charitable purpose
Largest: $25,000 to Harvard University — immigrants, economic mobility, and support for redistribution
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater BostonBoston, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $352,500 · through 2024Largest: $150,000 to Economic Mobility Pathways — daf - social services
Largest: $10,000 to HEADING HOME INC — heading home's economic mobility services
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