Funding search · EIN 042265469 · Boston, MA

Massachusetts Society for Promoting

Name: Massachusetts Society for Promoting grants, 2022–2025
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

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 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

food farm farmers work farms acquisition development legal

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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.

1 grant matching “quiz” · $2,500

$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

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

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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