Funding search · food security · Massachusetts
Who funds food security work in Massachusetts
15 funders have a record of paying for food security work by Massachusetts recipients: 110 grants totaling $7.3M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Yawkey Foundation Ii ($1.9M), Liberty Mutual Foundation ($1.4M) and Adelard and Valeda Roy Foundation ($59,500).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Massachusetts recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $500,000 to THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — capital project for hunger relief & food access
Largest: $300,000 to YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON — boston collaborative food access hub and network
Largest: $7,500 to GREENROOTS INC — its food access, urban agriculture, and youth leadership programs
Point32health FoundationCanton, MACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $265,613 · through 2024Largest: $51,613 to BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — matching gifts; food access prog
Largest: $101,750 to GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK — food insecurities
Fenway Community Development CorporationBoston, MACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $169,124 · through 2024Largest: $76,250 to FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — as part of "we're here for you: fenway/kenmore community collective" providing low-to-moderate income residents with: 1) community health navigation services to increase healthcare…
Largest: $250,000 to TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE — for use by its friedman school of nutrition science and policy, toward the costs of advancing research on the impact of healthy food prescription programs on food insecure populati…
Martha'S Vineyard CommunityWest Tisbury, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $2.2M · through 2024Largest: $917,145 to ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE — food insecurity
Dola Hamilton Stemberg CharitableFort Lauderdale, FL
4 matching grants · $135,000 · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK — provides hunger relief to food insecure population
Largest: $25,000 to BACKYARD GROWERS — strengthen and deepen essential programs, fresh food access and food systems education for students and low-income residents (a two-year project)
Largest: $1,500 to MERRIMACK VALLEY YMCA (MA) — support for the lawrence ymca food insecurity prog
Largest: $2,500 to Ginny's Helping Hands — to assist in providing and distributing 400 holiday food baskets to food-insecure families
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