Funding search · nutrition and food insecurity · Massachusetts
Who funds nutrition and food insecurity work in Massachusetts
15 funders have a record of paying for nutrition and food insecurity work by Massachusetts recipients: 61 grants totaling $8.1M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Liberty Mutual Foundation ($795,000), Pdb Foundation ($261,750) and The Rockefeller Foundation ($449,965).
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: $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…
Largest: $250,000 to THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — addressing food insecurity in eastern massachusetts
Largest: $101,750 to GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK — food insecurities
Largest: $30,000 to DAILY TABLE — improve access to fresh, healthy food for vulnerable populations
Largest: $2,500 to South Middlesex Opportunity Council — to offer temporary shelter to families facing housing insecurity, food and case management resources
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
New England Dairy Promotion BoardBoston, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $3.6M · through 2024Largest: $1.3M to NEW ENGLAND DAIRY AND FOOD COUNCIL — to promote nutritional education programs within new england.
Martha'S Vineyard CommunityWest Tisbury, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $2.2M · through 2024Largest: $917,145 to ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE — food insecurity
Largest: $75,000 to SPOONFULS INC — basic health needs - food insecurity
Point32health FoundationCanton, MACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $151,560 · through 2024Largest: $45,150 to PROJECT BREAD - THE WALK FOR HUNGER — food insecurity prog & initiatives
Largest: $1,250 to NEWTON FOOD PANTRY (MA) — support for the food insecurity programs and servi
Share Our StrengthWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $148,864 · through 2022Largest: $44,807 to BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL — nutrition education program support
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