Funding search · health disparities · Massachusetts
Who funds health disparities work in Massachusetts
15 funders have a record of paying for health disparities work by Massachusetts recipients: 122 grants totaling $40.6M, most recently in 2024 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($8.3M), Wk Kellogg Foundation ($13.7M) and The Commonwealth Fund ($849,660).
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: $420,506 to HARVARD UNIVERSITY — 79892 integrating gender and social factors into the study of sex-related health disparities and health equity
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
26 matching grants · $13.7M · through 2024Largest: $1.1M to ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL — health and health equity
Largest: $16,550 to The Reede Scholars Inc — reede scholars health equity symposium
Largest: $300,000 to HEALTH LEADS INC — project support grant to build on lessons learned from covid-19 through its vaccine equity collaborative and help health leads support a health equity community collaborative.
Largest: $10,000 to CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — addressing community health disparities: to support racial equity and community health dialogue to address community health disparities and leadership development opportunities in …
Largest: $125,000 to PROJECT BREAD — health equity initiatives
Largest: $500,000 to Brigham and Women's Hospital — hiatt residency in global health equity
Dayton Foundation PlusDayton, OHCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2024Largest: $600,000 to INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION & POLICY INC — provide operating support to the institute for health equity research, evaluation and policy
Largest: $225,000 to THE HEALTH INITIATIVE — accelerating health equity via federal policy program
Massachusetts League of Community HealthBoston, MACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $6.7M · through 2023Largest: $5.6M to INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH — support operating mission
Largest: $715,000 to TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE — catalyzing communities to promote child health equity
Largest: $27,528 to WAYSIDE YOUTH & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC — 2022/23 metrowest health equity training series and strategic equity planning process cohort
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