Funding search · EIN 042104021 · Grantmaking charity · Boston, MA

Boston Foundation

$748.1M
in grants paid: 8,881
grants: 3,493
recipients: 2021–2024
filing years

Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

$6.6M
Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund · Boston, MA · 2024
Transfer to DAF
$5.6M
Partners Healthcare System · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$5.4M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Cincinnati, OH · 2024
Transfer to DAF
$5.0M
Trustees of Tufts College · Medford, MA · 2024
Scholarship
$4.3M
McLean Hospital · Belmont, MA · 2024
Capital Campaign
$4.0M
United Negro College Fund · Boston, MA · 2024
Education
$2.6M
The Barack Obama Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$2.6M
New Profit · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$2.5M
Embrace Boston · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$2.5M
Carbon Mapper · Pasadena, CA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$2.5M
Justice Catalyst · New York, NY · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$2.3M
United Way of Massachusetts Bay · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$2.1M
Social Finance · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$2.1M
Greenlight Fund · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$2.1M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$2.0M
Massachusetts Housing Partnership Fund Board · Boston, MA · 2024
Housing and Shelter
$2.0M
Boston Ballet · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.9M
New England Conservatory of Music · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.8M
Full of Grace Foundation · El Dorado Hills, CA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.7M
Bpe · Roxbury, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.5M
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Brookline, MA · 2024
Capital Campaign
$1.5M
St Martin De Porres Academy · New Haven, CT · 2024
Capital Campaign
$1.4M
Justice Catalyst Law · New York, NY · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.3M
University of Wisconsin Foundation · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.3M
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science · New York, NY · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.2M
True Costs Initiative · Brookline, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.2M
African American Quilt Guild of Gaston County · Kings Mountain, NC · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.2M
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.1M
Trustees of the Amherst College · Amherst, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.1M
Weema International · Acton, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.1M
Childrens Hospital Corporation · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.0M
Share Winter Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.0M
Year Up · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.0M
New Hampshire Catholic Charities · Manchester, NH · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$1.0M
Partners Healthcare System · Boston, MA · 2024
Endowment
$1.0M
Entrepreneurship for All · Lowell, MA · 2024
Capital Campaign
$1.0M
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
Capital Campaign
$1.0M
Sudbury Community Food Pantry · Sudbury, MA · 2024
Capital Campaign
$950,000
Prime Coalition · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$929,271
Greater Boston Food Bank · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$900,000
National Park Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Capital Campaign
$883,834
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$853,369
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$827,485
Brigham and Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$826,377
Community Foundation for Nantucket · Nantucket, MA · 2024
Transfer to DAF
$825,000
Jumpstart for Young Children · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$803,918
Boston Symphony Orchestra · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$756,200
826 Boston · Roxbury, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$751,000
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Education
$750,000
St John'S College in Santa Fe · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$750,000
Friends of Dewitt Parks & Rec · East Syracuse, NY · 2024
Capital Campaign
$719,734
Rockport Music · Rockport, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$687,100
Emerald Necklace Conservancy · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$666,667
Trustees of the Amherst College · Amherst, MA · 2024
Capital Campaign
$663,500
Camp Harbor View Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$647,069
Pine Street Inn · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$631,250
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Scholarship
$630,250
Neighborhood Villages · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$622,000
Jewish Family Service of San Diego · San Diego, CA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$603,500
Strategies for Children · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$600,000
Arrow Street Arts · Burlington, VT · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$600,000
Literations · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$554,223
Uaspire · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$553,949
Pan Massachusetts Challenge Trust · Needham, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$550,000
Moonbox Productions · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$550,000
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024
Capital Campaign
$547,000
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens · Boothbay, ME · 2024
Capital Campaign
$527,500
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston · Braintree, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$524,000
Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$523,750
Immigrant Family Services Institute (Ifsi-USA) · Mattapan, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$516,000
Partners Healthcare System · Boston, MA · 2024
Medical Research
$503,250
Network of Engaged International Donors Global · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$501,000
Boston Lyric Opera Company · Boston, MA · 2024
Capital Campaign
$500,000
Breaktime Cafe · Boston, MA · 2024
Capital Campaign
$500,000
Centerline Liberties · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$500,000
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024
Capital Campaign
$500,000
Gather · Portsmouth, NH · 2024
Capital Campaign
$500,000
Activate Global · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$500,000
Youth Villages Foundation · Memphis, TN · 2024
Youth Development
$497,266
Economic Mobility Pathways (Empath) · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$486,000
Horizons for Homeless Children · Roxbury, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$484,208
Massachusetts Audubon Society · Lincoln, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$475,000
Salt Lick Incubator · Belmont, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$465,000
Trustees of Reservations · Boston, MA · 2024
Capital Campaign
$464,644
The Foundation of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte · Charlotte, NC · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$451,000
The Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$439,748
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$434,250
Institute of Contemporary Art · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$429,470
Brigham and Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Medical Research
$428,550
Zumix · East Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$428,000
Social Innovation Forum · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$425,000
America Scores New England · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$424,059
Rosie'S Place · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$406,249
Museum of Fine Arts · Boston, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$400,000
Malden Catholic High School · Malden, MA · 2024
Capital Campaign
$400,000
Aquidneck Land Trust · Middletown, RI · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$400,000
Lifebox Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$400,000
Venn Foundation · St Paul, MN · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$400,000
Aspen Institute · Aspen, CO · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund
$396,500
St Boniface Haiti Foundation · Newton, MA · 2024
Operating Support/Annual Fund

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Unlike private foundations, grantmaking charities and associations often run formal grant programs with real application cycles — check their website for current opportunities. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.