Funding search · EIN 046579815 · Boston, MA

Barr Foundation

$338.6M
in grants paid: 2,520
grants: 2,514
recipients: 2022–2024
filing years

Recent grants

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

$3.3M
(855) United States Energy Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To accelerate the transition to clean energy in the northeast
$2.9M
(219) Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Springfield, MA · 2024
To support the valley creates initiative
$1.6M
(552) National Center for Civic Innovation · New York, NY · 2024
To continue to lead the technical assistance for the schools in the beyond ene (engage new england) cohort
$1.2M
(126) Boston Ujima Project · Boston, MA · 2024
To provide core support
$1.2M
(551) National Center for Civic Innovation · New York, NY · 2024
To build organizational capacity to scale school observation visits and to provide capacity-building support for barr grantee school leaders
$1.1M
(735) Sri International · Menlo Park, CA · 2024
To continue the developmental evaluation and conduct an efficacy study of the beyond engage new england initiative
$1.1M
(239) Conservation Law Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
To provide core support for the transportation for massachusetts coalition
$1.0M
(263) Double Edge Theatre Productions · Ashfield, MA · 2024
To participate in barr's cultural evolution grants program
$1.0M
(896) World Music · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To participate in barr's cultural evolution grants program
$1.0M
(238) Conservation Law Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
To provide core support for the transportation for massachusetts coalition
$1.0M
(490) Massachusetts Development Finance Agency · Boston, MA · 2024
To support real estate and capital investments in transformative development initiative districts
$805,000
(489) Massachusetts Development Finance Agency · Boston, MA · 2024
To support intensive arts-based economic development programming in transformative development initiative districts
$750,000
(245) Creative Hub Worcester · Worcester, MA · 2024
To support the first phase of construction of the creative hub worcester community arts center
$750,000
(576) New England Foundation for the Arts · Boston, MA · 2024
To further instill a spatial justice lens in the public art programs
$750,000
(482) Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center · Boston, MA · 2024
To provide continued support for the delivering on equity collective
$750,000
(853) United States Artists · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support the 2025 fellowship program and continue trestle and policy research, discovery, and planning efforts in new england
$705,000
(240) Conservation Law Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
To support advocacy and communications efforts to achieve an accessible, equitable, and climate-resilient boston waterfront
$650,000
(415) Institute for Nonprofit Practice · Boston, MA · 2024
To provide core operating support during multi-year growth
$650,000
(575) New England Foundation for the Arts · Boston, MA · 2024
To support strategic planning and early implementation
$650,000
(587) New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide core support to leading now to provide programming to superintendents in new england
$600,000
(357) Greater Worcester Community Foundation · Worcester, MA · 2024
To support the creative worcester initiative
$600,000
(414) Institute for Nonprofit Practice · Boston, MA · 2024
To provide core operating support during multi-year growth
$600,000
(763) the Education Trust · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide core support for the organization's massachusetts work
$580,000
(328) Friends of the Lynn Historical Society · Lynn, MA · 2024
To support the lynnarts infrastructure and renovation project
$565,000
(579) New England Grassroots Environment Fund · Newmarket, NH · 2024
To support a regional federal funding resource hub
$500,000
(669) Prx · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To support strategic planning
$500,000
(721) Smart Growth America · Washington, DC · 2024
To inform federal transportation policy and educate and engage massachusetts stakeholders
$500,000
(544) National Arts Strategies · Alexandria, VA · 2024
To support the implementation phase of the project pilot
$500,000
(499) Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation · North Adams, MA · 2024
To support the second phase of its community development and sustainability initiatives strategy
$500,000
(522) Metropolitan Area Planning Council · Boston, MA · 2024
To support mobility, clean energy, and climate resiliency planning
$500,000
(496) Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation · North Adams, MA · 2024
To support the first phase of long-term planning, community development, and sustainability initiatives
$500,000
(410) Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the campaign and construction of la casa: the center for arts, self-determination, and activism
$500,000
(177) City of Boston · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the cultural access program ("museum sundays"): 60% to innovation fund and 40% to unrestricted project expenses
$500,000
(757) the Center for Cultural Innovation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support ambitious and research 2 impact
$500,000
(567) Nectar Community Investments · Lawrence, MA · 2024
To support community and economic development programming
$500,000
(854) United States Artists · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support the 2024 fellowship program and trestle research, discovery, and planning efforts in new england
$475,000
(505) Massachusetts School Administrators Association · Franklin, MA · 2024
To continue support for the implementation of m.a.s.s.'s strategy for advancing racial equity, diversity, and inclusion, including the new superintendents' induction program
$450,000
(208) College Bound Dorchester · Dorchester, MA · 2024
For unrestricted core support for new england work and system strengthening
$450,000
(566) Nectar Community Investments · Lawrence, MA · 2024
To support community and economic development programming
$450,000
(92) Boston Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
To provide core support to the aapi arts & culture collaborative program
$440,000
(138) Brown University of Providence State of Ri and Prov Plantations · Providence, RI · 2024
For the annenberg institute to prepare and launch research exploring the developmental arcs of highly effective educators
$428,571
(814) Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024
To support core operations and implementation of strategic growth plan for design studio for social intervention
$420,000
(74) Bikes Not Bombs · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2024
To support increased access to bike shop services and community engagement on transportation issues in dorchester, mattapan, and roxbury
$415,000
(759) the Chisholm Legacy Project · Burtonsville, MD · 2024
To support community-based leaders in new england to advance equity-centered climate solutions
$405,000
(602) Now and There · Boston, MA · 2024
To support operations
$405,000
(550) National Center for Civic Innovation · New York, NY · 2024
To design and host an inspirational study tour to support meeting the moment cohort grantees in dreaming about what might be possible for high school transformation
$405,000
(9) Acadia Center · Rockport, ME · 2024
To advance energy and building decarbonization policies in new england, through research and non-partisan analysis, stakeholder engagement and education, and regulatory activities
$400,000
(217) Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Springfield, MA · 2024
To support valley creates grants
$400,000
(470) Maine People Resource Center · Portland, ME · 2024
To provide general operating support
$400,000
(695) Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
To provide a final round of core support for its fund for shared insight program
$400,000
(100) Boston Globe Media Partners Llc · Boston, MA · 2024
To continue support for the great divide
$400,000
(397) Hyams Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
To support climate justice movement building infrastructure in massachusetts
$400,000
(7) Abundant Housing Massachusetts · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2024
To support mbta communities organizing, advocacy, and communications
$400,000
(297) Essex County Community Foundation · Beverly, MA · 2024
To support the sustainability phase (2023-26) of eccf's creative county initiative
$400,000
(822) Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024
To build leadership capacity through cohort programming with an equity lens that is supported by an organizational equity plan and advancement function
$400,000
(781) the Lawrence and Lillian Solomon Foundation · Wellesley, MA · 2024
To support a re-granting and technical assistance program for greenways in greater boston
$400,000
(101) Boston Globe Media Partners Llc · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the boston globe's racial wealth equity coverage
$400,000
(727) Southcoast Community Foundation · New Bedford, MA · 2024
To support the creative southcoast initiative
$400,000
(755) the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation · Sheffield, MA · 2024
To support the arts build community initiative
$395,000
(248) Cropcircle Kitchen · Dorchester, MA · 2024
To support the creation of replicable, scalable, and equitable strategies to advance its charitable purposes related to small business development
$390,000
(537) Mystic River Watershed Association · Arlington, MA · 2024
To support projects and efforts to develop climate resilience, greenways, and waterfront access
$390,000
(538) Mystic River Watershed Association · Arlington, MA · 2024
To support projects and efforts to develop climate resilience, greenways, and waterfront access
$375,000
(107) Boston Harbor Now · Boston, MA · 2024
To provide general operating support
$375,000
(484) Massachusetts Charter Public School Association · Hudson, MA · 2024
To provide general operating support
$375,000
(303) Essex County Community Foundation · Beverly, MA · 2024
To support strengthening of movement building infrastructure and advancement of community wealth building efforts in essex county
$373,680
(26) Alternatives for Community and Environment · Roxbury, MA · 2024
To provide general operating support
$360,000
(897) World Music · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To invest risk capital in organizational and artistic leadership
$360,000
(699) Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the public art program
$360,000
(371) Grub Street · Boston, MA · 2024
To invest risk capital in organizational and artistic leadership
$360,000
(422) Jacob'S Pillow Dance Festival · Becket, MA · 2024
To invest risk capital in organizational and artistic leadership
$360,000
(288) Emerson College · Boston, MA · 2024
To support artsemerson to invest risk capital in organizational and artistic leadership
$360,000
(799) the Silk Road Project · Boston, MA · 2024
To invest risk capital in organizational and artistic leadership
$360,000
(808) Theater Offensive · Boston, MA · 2024
To invest risk capital in organizational and artistic leadership
$360,000
(150) Celebrity Series of Boston · Boston, MA · 2024
To invest risk capital in organizational and artistic leadership
$357,500
(106) Boston Harbor Now · Boston, MA · 2024
To provide core support for the coalition for a resilient and inclusive waterfront
$350,000
(878) Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the launch of an equity and justice unit and to enable deeper relationships with grassroots media leaders
$350,000
(861) University of Massachusetts Foundation · Newton, MA · 2024
To support and elevate the sustainable solutions lab's climate resilience efforts
$350,000
(123) Boston Schools Fund · Boston, MA · 2024
To support general operations
$350,000
(441) Latinos for Education · Boston, MA · 2024
To provide core support for latinos for education's massachusetts work
$350,000
(157) Ceres · Boston, MA · 2024
To mobilize businesses and investors in support of clean energy policies by integrating their perspectives
$350,000
(112) Boston Impact Initiative Fund · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2024
To support exploratory efforts within the worker co-operative ecosystem
$350,000
(261) Digital Ready · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2024
For general operating support
$350,000
(493) Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities · Northampton, MA · 2024
To support expand massachusetts stories
$350,000
(45) Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2024
To support crpe's planning for the next phase of new england high school and school system research
$335,000
(270) Duet · Boston, MA · 2024
To support general operations
$333,333
(653) Possibility Labs · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support visible hands' boston educational programming
$333,333
(283) Embrace Boston · Boston, MA · 2024
To provide core support to its embrace boston program
$330,000
(331) Gardner Public Schools · Gardner, MA · 2024
To continue strengthening school leadership work across the north central school leadership pipeline
$330,000
(572) New Bedford Corporation · New Bedford, MA · 2024
To provide core support for new bedford creative
$330,000
(833) Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024
To support wbur's arts & culture program
$330,000
(353) Greater Lowell Community Foundation · Lowell, MA · 2024
To provide core support for lowell chamber orchestra as part of the catalyzing vitality program
$325,000
(545) National Arts Strategies · Alexandria, VA · 2024
To support two cohorts of creative community fellows new england and alumni engagement activities
$325,000
(846) Unbounded Learning · New York, NY · 2024
To support new and deepening work in up to six districts in massachusetts aligned with research and evaluation strategy development
$325,000
(747) Teach Western Mass · Springfield, MA · 2024
To support general operations
$325,000
(748) Teach Western Mass · Springfield, MA · 2024
To support general operations
$310,000
(396) Huntington Theatre Company · Boston, MA · 2024
To invest risk capital in organizational and artistic leadership
$310,000
(498) Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation · North Adams, MA · 2024
To provide core support for the assets for artists program
$305,000
(488) Massachusetts Development Finance Agency · Boston, MA · 2024
To support intensive arts-based economic development programming in transformative development initiative districts
$305,000
(73) Beyond Walls · Lynn, MA · 2024
To provide strategic growth planning and operational support
$300,000
(677) Relay Graduate School of Education · New York, NY · 2024
To continue to build from the work of the "follow the leader" series to identify and share leadership bright spots and to codify and share learnings from the partnership in holyoke, massachusetts

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call. Most private foundations do not accept unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.