Funding search · infant and child health · Massachusetts
Who funds infant and child health work in Massachusetts
15 funders have a record of paying for infant and child health work by Massachusetts recipients: 122 grants totaling $69.2M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Charles H Hood Foundation ($4.4M), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ($47.9M) and Wk Kellogg Foundation ($8.4M).
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.
Charles H Hood FoundationManchesterbythesea, MA
46 matching grants · $4.4M · through 2024Largest: $160,000 to BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — child health research award - the role and mechanism of makorin ring finger protein 3 in children with delayed puberty
Largest: $350,000 to MANAGEMENT SCIENCES FOR HEALTH INC — delivery of solutions to improve global health; maternal, neonatal and child health
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
10 matching grants · $8.4M · through 2022Largest: $149,999 to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH QUALITY INC — advance equitable, anti-racist maternal child health systems by developing a toolkit grounded in equity systems of care to support the institutionalization of equitable policies an…
The Genesis Foundation for ChildrenBoston, MACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $853,199 · through 2023Largest: $386,667 to MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — pediatric care to children with special needs
Largest: $715,000 to TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE — catalyzing communities to promote child health equity
Largest: $100,000 to REACH OUT AND READ INC — incorporates books into pediatric care & encourages families to read aloud together.
Largest: $95,000 to CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN INSTITUTE — to develop and disseminate a research report about a drivers of health: child and family well-being" framework
Largest: $100,000 to CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION — pediatric advanced care team social work fellowship
David Ortiz Children'S FundEl Segundo, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $610,000 · through 2024Largest: $195,000 to MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL — support pediatric cardiac surgeries, provide training for emergency care workers, to effectively diagnose and respond to pediatric heart care needs, creating an uplifting diagnosis…
Largest: $200,000 to SEED GLOBAL HEALTH INC — sierra leones nat'l program in human resources for health & reproductive, maternal & child health
Conrad N Hilton FoundationWestlake Village, CA
3 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — to support elevating equity project dissemination and data use by applying findings from research focused on understanding strengths and assets in the relationship between racial b…
Largest: $30,000 to BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — support health equity for young children using a pediatric care perspective on federal nutrition assistance and economic security policy discussions
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