Funding search · EIN 042265469 · Boston, MA

Massachusetts Society for Promoting

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

44
grants reported
$827,497
total given
2022–2025
filing years
$16,500
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

foodfarmfarmersworkfarmsacquisitiondevelopmentlegal

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Top recipients

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  • Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation2 grants · $150,000
  • Conservation Law Foundation4 grants · $90,000
  • Berkshire Agricultural Ventures2 grants · $50,000
  • Land for Good2 grants · $50,000
  • New Entry Sustainable Farming Project3 grants · $48,800
  • Ma Food System Collaborative (Mfsc)3 grants · $42,500
  • Cisa - Communtiy Involved in Sustaining Agriculture2 grants · $40,000
  • The Carrot Project1 grant · $35,000
  • American Farmland Trust2 grants · $30,000
  • Coastal Foodshed1 grant · $30,000

Giving over time

$70,000
2022
$232,000
2023
$254,800
2024
$270,697
2025

Grant history

All 44 reported grants, largest first.

  • $100,000

    Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation · Agawam, MA · 2023

    Local farmer awards program

  • $50,000

    Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation · Agawam, MA · 2024

    Local farmer awards program

  • $37,800

    New Entry Sustainable Farming Project · Boston, MA · 2024

    To support the development and deployment of a new website

  • $35,000

    The Carrot Project · Boston, MA · 2025

    To support the economic viability of ma farmers

  • $30,000

    Coastal Foodshed · New Bedford, MA · 2025

    To fund the purchase of a refrigerated box truck

  • $25,000

    Berkshire Agricultural Ventures · Great Barrington, MA · 2025

    To support the continuance of providing business technical assistance to lodal farms and food businesses in berkshire county

  • $25,000

    Conservation Law Foundation · Boston, MA · 2025

    Operational support for its massachusetts legal food hub

  • $25,000

    Land for Good · Keene, NH · 2025

    To educate and support farmland owners in the commonwealth

  • $25,000

    Marion Institute · Marion, MA · 2025

    To support of work to recover otherwise unharvested produce from area farms in southeast ma and distribute it to are food pantries

  • $25,000

    Berkshire Agricultural Ventures · Great Barrington, MA · 2024

    To support the continuance of providing business technical assistance to lodal farms and food businesses in berkshire county

  • $25,000

    Cisa - Communtiy Involved in Sustaining Agriculture · South Deerfield, MA · 2024

    Technical assistance for farmers contemplating an exit from farming and prioritizing options that transfer their farming enterprises to new farmers

  • $25,000

    Conservation Law Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024

    To support the work of the legal food hub

  • $25,000

    Land for Good · Keene, NH · 2024

    To educate and support farmland owners in the commonwealth

  • $25,000

    Semap · Dartmouth, MA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $25,000

    Conservation Law Foundation · Boston, MA · 2023

    To support the work of the legal food hub

  • $25,000

    Meatworksthe Livestock Institute · Westport, MA · 2022

    Funds granted to maintain and improve the "bulldog and to make other ancillary investments as may be required to support the relationship with nbps and others as capacity builds

  • $24,122

    Eco Ag Collaborative (Momentum Ag) · Worthington, MA · 2025

    To explore the feasibility of 'virtual fencing' for pasture-raised livestock in ma

  • $20,000

    Boston Farms Community Land Trust · Mattapan, MA · 2025

    The grant will fund, in part, boston farms' costs in connection with the acquisition and development of the farm site at 115-123 bird street, boston

  • $20,000

    Ma Food System Collaborative (Mfsc) · Boston, MA · 2025

    To fund, in part, the collaborative's operating expenses to continue its work on the healthy incentives program (hip)

  • $20,000

    Ma Food System Collaborative (Mfsc) · Boston, MA · 2024

    Operational support for work in support of a resilient, equitable, connected and safe local food system

  • $20,000

    American Farmland Trust · Washington, DC · 2022

    Funds granted to increase cover crop adoption for improved soil health, land resiliency and farm viability

  • $18,000

    Cuttyhunk Shellfish Farms · Concord, MA · 2023

    Acquisition and depolyment of replacement lantern nets, floating bags and basic tools to support the critical summer retail business

  • $15,000

    Cisa - Communtiy Involved in Sustaining Agriculture · South Deerfield, MA · 2023

    To strengthen farmers' markets and farm vendors through increasing customer base with increased empahsis on the state's hip and snap programs

  • $15,000

    Pioneer Valley Growers Association · South Deerfield, MA · 2023

    To assist funding for refrigeration and solar installations

  • $15,000

    Conservation Law Foundation · Boston, MA · 2022

    To support the work of the legal food hub

  • $12,000

    Mill City Grows · Lowell, MA · 2024

    To improve access to culturally connected foods in lowell

  • $12,000

    Mill City Grows · Lowell, MA · 2023

    To improve access to culturally connected foods and expand urban agriculture

  • $10,000

    American Farmland Trust · Washington, DC · 2025

    Support for its project to increase cover crop adoption for improved soil health, land resiliency and farm viability

  • $10,000

    Regional Environmental Council · Worcester, MA · 2025

    General operating support of the community farmers' market program

  • $10,000

    Regional Environmental Council · Worcester, MA · 2024

    General operating support of the community farmers' market program

  • $10,000

    Boston Farms Community Land Trust · Mattapan, MA · 2023

    Support the boston farms acquisition and development plan

  • $10,000

    Just Roots · Greenfield, MA · 2023

    To partially fund the incorporation of no-till, pollinator-friendly growing practices on on acre at the farm

  • $10,000

    Ma Horticulture Society · Wellesley, MA · 2023

    For the repair and modernization of three greenhouses

  • $10,000

    Regional Environmental Council · Worcester, MA · 2023

    General operating support of the community farmers' market program

  • $10,000

    New Entry Sustainable Farming Project · Carlisle, MA · 2022

    Funds granted to be used toward the purchase of a truck for the nesfp program

  • $7,000

    Western Massachusetts Fibershed · Shelburne Falls, MA · 2023

    Acquisition of a pelletizer and shredder to make better use of 'dirty wool'

  • $5,000

    Freed Seed Federation · Westport, MA · 2025

    Red storage beet and radicchio seed production and distribution including outreach and commercialization plans

  • $2,980

    Ma Sheep and Woolcraft Fair · Cummington, MA · 2025

    To fund sheep dog herding and shearing demonstrations

  • $2,595

    University of Massachusetts Jung Lab (206 Paige Laboratory) · Amherst, MA · 2025

    To maintain and characterize the disease resistances of its collection of massachusetts common hops (humulus lupulus) and japanese hops (humulus scandens)

  • $2,500

    Ma Food System Collaborative (Mfsc) · Boston, MA · 2025

    A sponsorhip of the 2025 massachusetts food system forum held on november 21, 2025

  • $2,500

    Massachusetts 4-H Dairy Advisory · Goshen, MA · 2025

    To support the 2025 massachusetts state 4-h dairy show and to sponsor the show's quiz bowl

  • $2,500

    Nettlenook Farm · Danvers, MA · 2025

    Support the further development of one-half acre, 10-15 new raised beds for the production of medicinal and culinary herbs and the re-invigoration of the herb farmacy

  • $2,500

    Northeast Youth Sheep Shownew England Sheep and Wool Growers Association · Danielson, CT · 2025

    To support the 2025 northeast youth sheep show

  • $1,000

    New Entry Sustainable Farming Project · Beverly, MA · 2025

    Sponsorship of the new entry sustainable farming project farm-to-table dinner

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.