Funding search · Barr Foundation · grants
Barr Foundation: all 2,520 grants
Largest first · $338.6M across 2022–2024 · back to the overview
- $300,000
(125) Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023
Arts & creativity: to support the boston cultural leaders coalition
- $300,000
(153) Arise · Springfield, MA · 2023
Climate: to provide general operating support
- $300,000
(224) Livable Streets Transportation Alliance of Boston · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Climate: to provide general operating support
- $300,000
(263) One Square World · Boston, MA · 2023
Climate: to provide general operating support
- $300,000
(288) the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth · Boston, MA · 2023
Climate: to support polling and focus groups on transportation and climate
- $300,000
(302) Urban Sustainability Directors Network · Washington, DC · 2023
Climate: to support northeast municipalities with tools and training to build new skills in centering racial equity in climate policy, planning, and practice
- $300,000
(325) Brown University of Providence State of Ri and Prov Plantations · Providence, RI · 2023
Education: to design and launch robust induction support partnerships and programming for recent mat program alumni in rhode island with aligned research to inform the initiative and the field
- $300,000
(346) Faithacts for Education · Fairfield, CT · 2023
Education: to support general operations
- $300,000
(351) Generation Teach · Boston, MA · 2023
Education: to provide core support for generation teach new england
- $300,000
(357) Great Schools Partnership · Portland, ME · 2023
Education: to support the on-going diversifying the educator workforce in new england initiative
- $300,000
(362) He Is Me Institute · Dorchester, MA · 2023
Education: to support general operations
- $300,000
(368) Latinos for Education · Belmont, MA · 2023
Education: to provide core support for its new england operations
- $300,000
(4) American Repertory Theatre Company Incorporated · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Arts & creativity: to provide general operating support
- $300,000
(421) Teach Western Mass · Springfield, MA · 2023
Education: to support general operations
- $300,000
(58) Huntington Theatre Company · Boston, MA · 2023
Arts & creativity: to provide general operating support
- $300,000
(60) Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum · Boston, MA · 2023
Arts & creativity: to provide general operating support
- $300,000
(68) Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities · Northampton, MA · 2023
Arts & creativity: to support expanding massachusetts stories and organization's capacity in ta provision and communications
- $300,000
(695) Boston Foundation · Boston, MA · 2023
Racial wealth equity: to support capacity building for its boston indicators program and the launch of the racial wealth gap and economic security research initiative
- $300,000
(70) Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation · North Adams, MA · 2023
Arts & creativity: to provide general operating support
- $300,000
(712) Massachusetts Development Finance Agency · Boston, MA · 2023
Racial wealth equity: to support design and planning related to wealth equity initiatives
- $300,000
(739) Institute for Nonprofit Practice · Boston, MA · 2023
Sector effectiveness: to support the design and launch of the black leadership institute
- $300,000
(794) Flourish Agenda · Oakland, CA · 2023
Special initiatives: to build and design a four pivots learning toolkit for the philanthropic field
- $300,000
(839) the American City Coalition · Roxbury, MA · 2023
Waterfront: to support its waterways: connecting residents of roxbury and dorchester to boston's waterfront work
- $300,000
(95) Peabody Essex Museum · Salem, MA · 2023
Arts & creativity: to provide general operating support
- $300,000
(163) Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2022
Climate: to support the efforts of georgetown climate center as it informs climate and transportation policy
- $300,000
(181) Livable Streets Transportation Alliance of Boston · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Climate: to provide general operating support
- $300,000
(232) the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth · Boston, MA · 2022
Climate: to support polling and focus groups on transportation and climate
- $300,000
(265) Berkshire Hills Regional School District · Stockbridge, MA · 2022
Education: to support the continued redesign of monument mountain regional high school
- $300,000
(272) Brockton Public Schools · Brockton, MA · 2022
Education: to support the launch of promise college and career academy in brockton public schools in the 2022-23 school year
- $300,000
(276) College Bound Dorchester · Dorchester, MA · 2022
Education: for unrestricted core support for new england work
- $300,000
(312) Latinos for Education · Belmont, MA · 2022
Education: to provide core support for its new england operations
- $300,000
(314) Lowell Public Schools · Lowell, MA · 2022
Education: to continue the design and early implementation of a reimagined high school experience in alignment with the portrait of a graduate
- $300,000
(349) Relay Graduate School of Education · New York, NY · 2022
Education: to continue to support follow the leaders
- $300,000
(358) Springfield Public Schools · Springfield, MA · 2022
Education: to continue the design and early implementation of a reimagined high school experience in alignment with the portrait of a graduate
- $300,000
(36) Institute of Contemporary Art · Boston, MA · 2022
Arts & creativity: to provide general operating support
- $300,000
(67) Peabody Essex Museum · Salem, MA · 2022
Arts & creativity: to provide general operating support
- $300,000
(76) Technical Development Corporation · Boston, MA · 2022
Arts & creativity: to provide supplemental funds to the barr-klarman massachusetts arts initiative cohort
- $300,000
(763) the American City Coalition · Roxbury, MA · 2022
Special initiatives: to support its waterways: connecting residents of roxbury and dorchester to boston's waterfront work
- $290,000
(180) City of Boston · Boston, MA · 2024
To support implementation of climate ready boston initiatives
- $290,000
(181) City of Boston · Boston, MA · 2024
To support implementation of climate ready boston initiatives
- $290,000
(583) New Hampshire Learning Initiative · North Hampton, NH · 2024
For continued support of the future learning pathways community of practice for new hampshire districts
- $290,000
(65) Berkshire Community College Foundation · Pittsfield, MA · 2024
To support transformation in learning and teaching to advance the portrait of a graduate
- $290,000
(125) City of Boston · Boston, MA · 2022
Climate: to support implementation of climate ready boston initiatives
- $285,000
(350) Great Schools Partnership · Portland, ME · 2024
To continue support for the diversifying the educator workforce in new england initiative
- $285,000
(49) Arts Connect International · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the cultural equity incubator
- $285,000
(870) Veritas Preparatory Charter School · Springfield, MA · 2024
To support veritas prep charter high school's high school design, iteration, and expansion to grades 9-12
- $285,000
(427) the Teacher Collaborative · Somerville, MA · 2023
Education: to support the first-year implementation of the elevating educators coalition
- $283,000
(372) Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Education: to implement and deepen a community of practice for the planning for postsecondary success cohort (nglc-1482)
- $281,250
(269) Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative · Roxbury, MA · 2024
To support the exploration of a resilience hub and other resiliency activities and to provide capacity building for its greater boston community land trust network program
- $280,000
(700) Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy · Boston, MA · 2024
To invest risk capital in organizational and artistic leadership
- $280,000
(743) Taunton Public Schools · Taunton, MA · 2024
To continue reimagining the high school experience as part of phase ii of the meeting the moment cohort
- $280,000
(113) Bikes Not Bombs · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2022
Climate: to support bicycle programming and shop services in roxbury
- $277,500
(118) Boston Public Health Commission · Boston, MA · 2024
To build capacity for community resilience and preparedness in boston
- $275,000
(733) Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership · Springfield, MA · 2024
To support ongoing plans to strengthen school leadership
- $275,000
(875) Waltham Public Schools · Waltham, MA · 2024
To support the first year launch of a new high school option in waltham
- $275,000
(179) Climate Justice Alliance · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Climate: to provide general operating support
- $275,000
(267) Powerswitch Action · Oakland, CA · 2023
Climate: to provide core support for community labor united's work on climate resilience, clean energy, and economic inclusion in massachusetts
- $275,000
(140) Community Labor United · Boston, MA · 2022
Climate: to support community labor united's work on climate resilience, clean energy, and economic inclusion in massachusetts
- $275,000
(208) New England Grassroots Environment Fund · Newmarket, NH · 2022
Climate: to strengthen climate resilience at the community level in metro boston
- $275,000
(209) New England Grassroots Environment Fund · Newmarket, NH · 2022
Climate: to strengthen climate resilience at the community level in metro boston
- $275,000
(705) Boston Foundation · Boston, MA · 2022
Special initiatives: to support strategic planning efforts for its new commonwealth racial equity and social justice fund program
- $270,000
(329) Central Falls School District · Central Falls, RI · 2023
Education: to support teacher capacity building and the development of an instructional coaching model
- $270,000
(364) Holyoke Public Schools · Holyoke, MA · 2023
Education: to support the ongoing development of holyoke opportunity academy as part of the beyond engage new england initiative
- $270,000
(305) Holyoke Public Schools · Holyoke, MA · 2022
Education: to support implementation plans to strengthen school leadership
- $268,250
(239) Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2022
Climate: to support transportation, health, and air-quality research and communications
- $267,000
(726) Fii - National Dba Uptogether · Oakland, CA · 2022
Special initiatives: to support the design and implementation of uptogether's racial wealth equity narrative campaign in greater boston
- $264,688
(134) Brockton Public Schools · Brockton, MA · 2024
To support the ongoing development of promise college & career academy as part of the beyond engage new england initiative
- $260,000
(131) Vietnamese-American Initiative for Development · Dorchester, MA · 2023
Arts & creativity: to support words as worlds in the construction of a new bookstore as a community literary gathering space
- $260,000
(139) Community Labor United · Boston, MA · 2022
Climate: to support new england united 4 justices climate and mobility activities
- $260,000
(279) Danbury Public Schools · Danbury, CT · 2022
Education: to continue the design and early implementation of a reimagined high school experience in alignment with the portrait of a graduate
- $255,000
(597) North Shore Community Development Coalition · Salem, MA · 2024
To support the punto urban art museum
- $255,000
(214) Health Care Without Harm · Reston, VA · 2023
Climate: to support massachusetts health care sector leadership on climate action
- $255,000
(340) Newport Public Education Foundation · Newport, RI · 2022
Education: to support ongoing implementation in the transformation of rogers high school, with particular attention to deepening rigorous and purposeful learning experiences for students
- $255,000
(353) Sheila C Skip Nowell Leadership Academy · Providence, RI · 2022
Education: to support the implementation phase for nowell academy, as part of cohort 3 of the engage new england initiative
- $250,000
(111) Boston Impact Initiative Fund · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2024
To provide general operating support
- $250,000
(129) Bpe · Roxbury, MA · 2024
To support continued implementation of the elevating educators coalition
- $250,000
(176) City of Boston · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the cultural access for bps families pilot
- $250,000
(205) Coalition for Social Justice-Education Fund · New Bedford, MA · 2024
To provide general operating support
- $250,000
(234) Conservation Law Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
For transitmatters to support the leadership of grassroots and community-based organizations in transforming the mbta and public transit across massachusetts
- $250,000
(275) Ednavigator · River Forest, IL · 2024
To support ednavigator's continued operations in the boston area
- $250,000
(278) Educators for Excellence · New York, NY · 2024
To provide core support for educators for excellence, boston chapter
- $250,000
(279) Educators for Excellence · New York, NY · 2024
To provide core support for educators for excellence, connecticut chapter
- $250,000
(291) Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2024
To support edf's clean energy regulatory work in new england and at the federal energy regulatory commission
- $250,000
(358) Greatschools · Oakland, CA · 2024
To support efforts to help new england-based parent organizations utilize "transforming high school" resources to drive change in their communities
- $250,000
(423) Jean Appolon Expressions · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To support the planning and build-out of a dance facility
- $250,000
(445) Lawyers for Civil Rights · Boston, MA · 2024
To support capacity to monitor policy issues related to racial wealth equity in greater boston as well as additional capacity to provide legal infrastructure to organizations within the racial wealth equity ecosystem
- $250,000
(446) Lawyers for Civil Rights · Boston, MA · 2024
To support capacity for policy monitoring and legal infrastructure for the racial wealth equity ecosystem
- $250,000
(497) Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation · North Adams, MA · 2024
To invest risk capital in organizational and artistic leadership
- $250,000
(511) Masscreative · Boston, MA · 2024
To provide general operating support
- $250,000
(516) Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority · Haverhill, MA · 2024
To support rider-focused transit innovation
- $250,000
(517) Metropolitan Area Planning Council · Boston, MA · 2024
To deepen the work of its arts & culture department and to strategically integrate the arts across the agency
- $250,000
(53) Asian American Resource Workshop · Dorchester, MA · 2024
To provide support for its asian pacific islander's civic action network program's narrative change efforts related to wealth equity
- $250,000
(574) New England Aquarium Corporation · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the next phase of its waterfront for all vision
- $250,000
(594) North American Council for Online Learning Ltd · Arlington, VA · 2024
For general operating support
- $250,000
(720) Smart Growth America · Washington, DC · 2024
To support nonpartisan research and technical assistance on equitable development policies near transit
- $250,000
(745) Teach for America · Boston, MA · 2024
To provide core support for teach for america's massachusetts region
- $250,000
(746) Teach Plus Incorporated · Boston, MA · 2024
To launch and develop the inquiry institute for the massachusetts region and nationally
- $250,000
(749) Technical Development Corporation · Boston, MA · 2024
To support collaborative projects amongst the artsamplified cohort members
- $250,000
(751) Technical Development Corporation · Boston, MA · 2024
To support collaborative projects amongst the artsamplified cohort members
- $250,000
(76) Black Economic Council of Massachusetts · Roxbury, MA · 2024
To support black economic council of massachusetts to acquire property in roxbury, massachusetts

