Funding search · environmental justice · Massachusetts
Who funds environmental justice work in Massachusetts
15 funders have a record of paying for environmental justice work by Massachusetts recipients: 44 grants totaling $3.8M, most recently in 2024 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Endowment for Health ($250,000), Island Foundation ($100,000) and Liberty Mutual Foundation ($190,000).
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: $50,000 to Conservation Law Foundation — to build an environmental justice movement in new hampshire that engages low-income communities and communities of color by establishing and supporting environmental advocacy commu…
Largest: $20,000 to CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION — build community power for environmental justice
Largest: $75,000 to GREENROOTS — dismantling barriers for low-income residents in frontline, environmental justice communities to participate in the green economy
Largest: $50,000 to CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION — environmental justice assistance network
Largest: $50,000 to SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM — environmental justice track partner
The New Commonwealth Racial Equity andRoxbury, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $55,000 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to GREENROOTS INC — provides community-based environmental justice programs improve public health and quality of life
Largest: $170,000 to (150) ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — climate: to support the climate justice alliance northeast working group's environmental justice research on the impacts of rggi
Largest: $680,000 to WORLD MEDIA FOUNDATION INC DBA LIVING ON EARTH — to support the center for climate and environmental justice media
Largest: $150,000 to ONE SQUARE WORLD — this project grant supports one square world's resident leadership programs that advance climate and environmental justice through cultural organizing.
Conservation Law FoundationBoston, MACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $49,600 · through 2023Largest: $36,750 to ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT — environmental justice assistance & new england united for justice
Largest: $10,000 to ENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — to advance economic inclusion and environmental justice in offshore wind projects
Largest: $7,500 to CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION — vt environmental justice law: implementation and community leadership
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