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The Hershey Family Foundation

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$20.0M
in grants paid: 130
grants: 62
recipients: 2022–2024
filing years

Recent grants

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

$750,000
Whole School Mindfulness · Wrentham, MA · 2024
Women's studio workshop envisions a society where women's visual art is integral to the cultural mainstream and permanently recorded in history. Our mission is to operate and maintain an artists' workspace that encourag…
$500,000
Pres & Fellows Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Scholarships, grants, and awards to students (both undergraduate and graduate) and faculty of harvard university, ma
$451,900
Mind and Life Institute · Boulder, CO · 2024
Fund projects that advance our understanding of the mechanisms, implementation, and outcomes of contemplative approaches to promote well-being and prosocial behavior in individuals and communities.
$400,000
Women'S Studio Workshop · Kingston, NY · 2024
To operate and maintain an artists workspace that encourages the voice and vision of individual women artists, to provide professional opportunities for artists and to promote programs designed to stimulate public invol…
$350,000
Partners in Health · Boston, MA · 2024
Our mission is a preferential option for the poor in health care. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, partners in health strives to achieve two overarching goa…
$300,000
Hershey Montessory School · Concord Twp, OH · 2024
Funding for educating children from infancy to 12 years of age and adolescents.
$250,000
Brigham & Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Funding for physical wellness fund at brigham and womans. Brigham and women's hospital is dedicated to: serving the needs of our local and global community, providing the highest quality health care to patients and thei…
$250,000
Univ of Wisconsin Foundation · Madison, WI · 2024
Aids university of wisconsin-madison by soliciting gifts and bequests, administers and invests securities and property and distributes payments for benefit of uw-madison.
$200,000
Inward Bound Mindfulness Education · N Andover, MA · 2024
Funding for youth training
$200,000
Oxfam America · Boston, MA · 2024
Funding is for the creation of lasting solutions to end poverty, hunger and injustice. 170(b)(1)(a)(vi)
$200,000
Harvard Divinity School · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Harvard divinity school is a nonsectarian school of religious and theological studies that educates students both in the pursuit of the academic study of religion and in preparation for leadership in religious, governme…
$150,000
Graduate School Fund (Harvard) · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Funding to harvard university for graduate programs.
$143,600
Karuna-Shechen · New York, NY · 2024
Karuna-shechen works to provide health care, education, and social services for the under-served populations of india, nepal, and tibet.
$137,304
Uc Davis Foundation · Davis, CA · 2024
Funding for university of california, davis to educate students.
$132,195
Mind and Life Institute Summer Research Institute · Boulder, CO · 2024
Funding for meetings between western scientists and leading contemplative figures to study similarities and differences between western scientific practices and contemplative meditational techniques.
$128,084
Mind and Life Institute Europe Varela · Boulder, CO · 2024
Funding for grants awarded annually to research scientists who have attended the european summer research institute (esri). These grants fund scientific and scholarly examinations of contemplative techniques, with the u…
$125,000
Prison Mindfulness Institute · Cranston, RI · 2024
Provides prisoners, and those who work with them, with the most effective contemplative tools for self-transformation and rehabilitation.
$108,502
Mind and Life Institute Mind & Life Europe · Boulder, CO · 2024
Mle is a home for unconventional interdisciplinary encounters, where researchers and practitioners enrich one another in their understanding of mind and life, through the rigour of scientific inquiry, the openness of ph…
$100,000
Holden Forests & Gardens · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.
$100,000
Buddhist Digital Resource Ctr · Boston, MA · 2024
Using state-of-the art technology, the buddhist digital resource center is the leader in the field of digital preservation of buddhist texts, working with local partners to provide free access for the global community. …
$100,000
Equal Justice Initiative · Montgomery, AL · 2024
Eji is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the united states, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in american …
$100,000
Feeding America · Chicago, IL · 2024
Funding for america's hungry through a nationwide network of food banks in the fight to end hunger.
$100,000
Finca · Washington, DC · 2024
Funding helps provide financial services to the world's lowest-income entrepreneurs.
$100,000
Health Equity International Fka Saint Boniface Haiti Foundation · Newton, MA · 2024
Health equity international is dedicated to providing essential health services to the people of southern haiti, especially the most vulnerable. We are committed to building a comprehensive, efficient, and resilient hea…
$100,000
Institute for Advanced Study · Princeton, NJ · 2024
The institute exists to encourage and support fundamental scholarshipthe original, often speculative, thinking that produces advances in knowledge that change the way we understand the world. Work at the institute takes…
$100,000
Sravasti Abbey · Newport, WA · 2024
Funding supports a flourishing monastic community where learning and practicing buddhas ancient teachings cultivate peace in the hearts of residents, visitors, and the world.
$100,000
The Hunger Project · New York, NY · 2024
Funding goes towards empowering people to create lasting progress through education, health, nutrition, family incomes and gender equality.
$100,000
Upaya Institue and Zen Center · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
Upaya zen center is model of socially engaged buddhism. It brings together many projects focused on social transformation, including work in prisons, end-of-life care, serving the homeless, training of chaplains in soci…
$90,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024
Funding to brown university for contemplatice studies initiative.
$80,000
St Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies · Santa Barbara, CA · 2024
Contemplative research and education.
$80,000
Altruism in Medical Institute · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To increase compassion and resilience among health care professionals and their patients. We deliver lectures and workshops; write curriculum; publish books; and collaborate on metrics to measure outcomes. Over the past…
$75,000
Haiti Projects · Annisquam, MA · 2024
Funding for the employment of local haitian women to create embroidered products and linens to stimulate income production and employment opportunities.
$75,000
Funderburg Scholars · Concord, MA · 2024
Funderburg scholars is an all volunteer organization that helps inner city youth attend college. 86% of our funds were used for tuition and 13% for textbooks. The students are those who attended the unitarian universali…
$60,000
Teensmart International · Morrisville, NC · 2024
Funding life-skills education for teenagers
$60,000
Wisdom Publications · Somerville, MA · 2024
The leading publisher of contemporary and classic books and practical works on buddhism, mindfulness, meditation, and other contemplative traditions. Wisdom is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to cultivatin…
$50,000
Harvard Law School · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Harvard law school offers a range of academic programs, clinics, and student organizations for j.d. And graduate students.
$50,000
The Huntington · Boston, MA · 2024
Funding for the huntington theater company. The mission of the huntington is to engage, inspire, entertain, educate, and challenge audiences with culturally diverse theatrical productions that range from classics to new…
$50,000
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Publications · Weston, MA · 2024
Funding helps translate, edit, reproduce, publish and distribute educational materials on the teachings of lama yeshe and lama zapa rinpoche to the general public.
$50,000
Tergar International · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Transform hearts and minds by making the ancient wisdom of meditation accessible to the modern world.
$35,000
Global Arts Project for Peace · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Funding for the promotion of world peace through use of the arts.
$30,000
Project Bread · Boston, MA · 2024
Funding provides hunger relief grants to food pantries, soup kitchens, food banks, food salvage programs, and food transportation programs.
$30,000
Rosie'S Place · Boston, MA · 2024
Funding helps provide food and nutrition, housing, employment, and health services for poor and homeless women in boston.
$25,000
Macdowell · Peterborough, NH · 2024
The mission of macdowell is to nurture the arts by offering creative individuals an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination. Our admissions philosophy is that residencies are of…
$734,819
Mind and Life Institute · Boulder, CO · 2023
Funding for meetings between western scientists and leading contemplative figures to study similarities and differences between western scientific practices and contemplative meditational techniques.
$500,000
Whole School Mindfulness · Wrentham, MA · 2023
Women's studio workshop envisions a society where women's visual art is integral to the cultural mainstream and permanently recorded in history. Our mission is to operate and maintain an artists' workspace that encourag…
$500,000
Bidmc · Boston, MA · 2023
Beth israel deaconess medical center serves patients compassionately and effectively, and creates a healthy future for them and their families. Our mission is supported by our commitment to personalized, excellent care …
$400,000
Hershey Montessory School · Concord Twp, OH · 2023
Funding for educating children from infancy to 12 years of age and adolescents.
$350,000
Partners in Health · Boston, MA · 2023
Our mission is a preferential option for the poor in health care. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, partners in health strives to achieve two overarching goa…
$250,000
Phys Wellness Fund at Brigham&Womens Hos · Boston, MA · 2023
Funding for physical wellness fund at brigham and womans. Brigham and women's hospital is dedicated to: serving the needs of our local and global community, providing the highest quality health care to patients and thei…
$200,000
Inward Bound Mindfulness Education · N Andover, MA · 2023
Funding for youth training
$200,000
Oxfam America · Boston, MA · 2023
Funding is for the creation of lasting solutions to end poverty, hunger and injustice. 170(b)(1)(a)(vi)
$200,000
Sravasti Abbey · Newport, WA · 2023
Funding supports a flourishing monastic community where learning and practicing buddhas ancient teachings cultivate peace in the hearts of residents, visitors, and the world.
$200,000
Harvard Divinity School · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Harvard divinity school is a nonsectarian school of religious and theological studies that educates students both in the pursuit of the academic study of religion and in preparation for leadership in religious, governme…
$200,000
Health Equity International Fka Saint Boniface Haiti Foundation · Newton, MA · 2023
Health equity international is dedicated to providing essential health services to the people of southern haiti, especially the most vulnerable. We are committed to building a comprehensive, efficient, and resilient hea…
$200,000
Univ of Wisconsin Foundation · Madison, WI · 2023
Aids university of wisconsin-madison by soliciting gifts and bequests, administers and invests securities and property and distributes payments for benefit of uw-madison.
$200,000
Karuna-Shechen · New York, NY · 2023
Karuna-shechen works to provide health care, education, and social services for the under-served populations of india, nepal, and tibet.
$150,000
Thompson Island Outward Bound · Boston, MA · 2023
To provide individuals with adventurous and challenging experimental learning programs that inspire character development, compassion, community service, environmental responsibility and academic achievement.
$150,000
Graduate School Fund (Harvard) · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Funding to harvard university for graduate programs.
$133,275
Mind and Life Institute · Boulder, CO · 2023
Funding for grants awarded annually to research scientists who have attended the european summer research institute (esri). These grants fund scientific and scholarly examinations of contemplative techniques, with the u…
$130,000
Uc Davis Foundation · Davis, CA · 2023
Funding for university of california, davis to educate students.
$125,000
Prajnopaya Institute of Buddhist Studies · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Purpose is to devote to a non-sectarian and non-denominational approach to dharma. Students are encouraged to engage in the study of the theravada, mahayana, and vajrayana (triyana) schools. Prajnopaya also brings toget…
$125,000
Prison Mindfulness Institute · Cranston, RI · 2023
Provides prisoners, and those who work with them, with the most effective contemplative tools for self-transformation and rehabilitation.
$100,000
American Repertory Theatre · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Funding helps expand the boundaries of theatre, production, performing, and presenting literary works.
$100,000
Comtemplative Semester (Barre Center) · Barre, MA · 2023
Purpose is to offer the integration of study and practice in exploring the many streams of teaching and expression that flow from the sources of early buddhism. Online and onsite programs support personal transformation.
$100,000
Feeding America · Chicago, IL · 2023
Funding for america's hungry through a nationwide network of food banks in the fight to end hunger.
$100,000
Finca · Washington, DC · 2023
Funding helps provide financial services to the world's lowest-income entrepreneurs.
$100,000
Institute for Advanced Study · Princeton, NJ · 2023
The institute exists to encourage and support fundamental scholarshipthe original, often speculative, thinking that produces advances in knowledge that change the way we understand the world. Work at the institute takes…
$100,000
The Hunger Project · New York, NY · 2023
Funding goes towards empowering people to create lasting progress through education, health, nutrition, family incomes and gender equality.
$100,000
Upaya Institue and Zen Center · Santa Fe, NM · 2023
Upaya zen center is model of socially engaged buddhism. It brings together many projects focused on social transformation, including work in prisons, end-of-life care, serving the homeless, training of chaplains in soci…
$75,000
Funderburg Scholars · Concord, MA · 2023
Funderburg scholars is an all volunteer organization that helps inner city youth attend college. 86% of our funds were used for tuition and 13% for textbooks. The students are those who attended the unitarian universali…
$75,000
Haiti Projects · Annisquam, MA · 2023
Funding for the employment of local haitian women to create embroidered products and linens to stimulate income production and employment opportunities.
$70,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
Funding to brown university for contemplatice studies initiative.
$60,000
Rosie'S Place · Boston, MA · 2023
Funding helps provide food and nutrition, housing, employment, and health services for poor and homeless women in boston.
$60,000
Wisdom Publications · Somerville, MA · 2023
The leading publisher of contemporary and classic books and practical works on buddhism, mindfulness, meditation, and other contemplative traditions. Wisdom is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to cultivatin…
$50,000
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Publications · Weston, MA · 2023
Funding helps translate, edit, reproduce, publish and distribute educational materials on the teachings of lama yeshe and lama zapa rinpoche to the general public.
$50,000
Harvard Law School · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Harvard law school offers a range of academic programs, clinics, and student organizations for j.d. And graduate students.
$50,000
Harvard Law School (E Asian) · Cambridge, MA · 2023
The law school offers instruction on the legal systems of east asia and sponsors in-depth research conducted by scholars in residence. Joint programs of study can also be arranged on an individual basis with other parts…
$50,000
Teensmart International · Morrisville, NC · 2023
Life-skills education for teenagers
$50,000
The Huntington · Boston, MA · 2023
Funding for the huntington theater company. The mission of the huntington is to engage, inspire, entertain, educate, and challenge audiences with culturally diverse theatrical productions that range from classics to new…
$50,000
Equal Justice Initiative · Montgomery, AL · 2023
Eji is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the united states, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in american …
$50,000
Montessori Development Partnership · Burton, OH · 2023
To develop and implement montessori projects such as media development, study groups, professional development, teacher training, curriculum development, and collaborative programs.
$40,000
St Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies · Santa Barbara, CA · 2023
Contemplative research and education.
$35,000
Global Arts Project for Peace · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Funding for the promotion of world peace through use of the arts.
$30,000
Project Bread · Boston, MA · 2023
Funding provides hunger relief grants to food pantries, soup kitchens, food banks, food salvage programs, and food transportation programs.
$30,000
The Greater Boston Food Bank · Boston, MA · 2023
To end hunger in eastern massachusetts. The objective is to distribute enough food to provide at least one meal a day to those in need.
$25,000
Macdowell · Peterborough, NH · 2023
The mission of macdowell is to nurture the arts by offering creative individuals an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination. Our admissions philosophy is that residencies are of…
$25,000
Dalai Lama Ctr for Ethics & Transformative Values · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Dedicated to inquiry, dialogue, and education on the ethical and humane dimensions of life. As a collaborative and nonpartisan think tank, the center focuses on the development of interdisciplinary research and programs…
$20,000
Still Harbor · Boston, MA · 2023
Funding to support the offering of spiritual formation and accompaniment to individuals and organizations concerned with human thriving and social justice.
$800,000
Bidmc · Boston, MA · 2022
Beth israel deaconess medical center serves patients compassionately and effectively, and creates a healthy future for them and their families. Our mission is supported by our commitment to personalized, excellent care …
$721,167
Mind and Life Institute · Boulder, CO · 2022
Funding for meetings between western scientists and leading contemplative figures to study similarities and differences between western scientific practices and contemplative meditational techniques.
$500,000
Whole School Mindfulness · Wrentham, MA · 2022
Women's studio workshop envisions a society where women's visual art is integral to the cultural mainstream and permanently recorded in history. Our mission is to operate and maintain an artists' workspace that encourag…
$400,000
Oxfam America · Boston, MA · 2022
Funding is for the creation of lasting solutions to end poverty, hunger and injustice. 170(b)(1)(a)(vi)
$350,000
Partners in Health · Boston, MA · 2022
Our mission is a preferential option for the poor in health care. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, partners in health strives to achieve two overarching goa…
$300,000
Huntington Theatre Company · Boston, MA · 2022
Funding helps train and support the next generation of theatre artists, provides art education programs that promote life-long learning to a diverse community, and celebrates the essential power of the theatre.
$250,000
Brigham and Womens · Boston, MA · 2022
Mission brigham and women's hospital is dedicated to: serving the needs of our local and global community, providing the highest quality health care to patients and their families, expanding the boundaries of medicine t…
$250,000
Prajnopaya Institute of Buddhist Studies · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Purpose is to devote to a non-sectarian and non-denominational approach to dharma. Students are encouraged to engage in the study of the theravada, mahayana, and vajrayana (triyana) schools. Prajnopaya also brings toget…
$218,244
Uc Davis Foundation · Davis, CA · 2022
Funding for university of california, davis to educate students.
$200,000
Harvard Divinity School · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Harvard divinity school is a nonsectarian school of religious and theological studies that educates students both in the pursuit of the academic study of religion and in preparation for leadership in religious, governme…
$200,000
Hershey Montessori School · Concord Twp, OH · 2022
Funding for educating children from infancy to 12 years of age and adolescents.
$200,000
Inward Bound Mindfulness Education · N Andover, MA · 2022
Funding for youth training

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