Funding search · palliative and hospice care · Massachusetts
Who funds palliative and hospice care work in Massachusetts
15 funders have a record of paying for palliative and hospice care work by Massachusetts recipients: 76 grants totaling $4.3M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Oechsle Family Foundation ($900,000), The Parmenter Foundation ($859,362) and Boston Evening Clinic Foundation ($49,500).
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: $100,000 to HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC — good shepherd community palliative care program
The Parmenter FoundationWayland, MACharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $859,362 · through 2025Largest: $285,931 to GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CARE — hospice care/children's bereavement
Largest: $7,500 to VNA CARE NETWORK & HOSPICE — to support unfunded care for terminally ill individuals in the de rham hospice home in cambridge
Largest: $100,000 to DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE — nurse practitioner fellowship in palliative care
Largest: $6,000 to COOLEY DICKINSON VNA & HOSPICE — fall prevention & home safety programs
Largest: $25,000 to HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD — exempt purpose
Largest: $10,000 to HOSPICE OF MARTHAS VINEYARD — hospice and bereavement services
Largest: $100,000 to NORWELL VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE — in support of the pat roche hospice home's fund.
Largest: $100,000 to VNA CARE HOSPICE INC — to help with the costs of improvement to the rose monahan hospice home to increase energy efficiency, reduce maintenance costs, and support terminally-ill patients comfort.
Golf Fights CancerNorton, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $410,000 · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — cancer outcomes research and education (core) palliative care program
Baystate Health FoundationSpringfield, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $486,660 · through 2023Largest: $190,271 to VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE OF WESTERN NEW ENGLAND — to support education, research, clinical and healthcare programs
Largest: $100,000 to NVNA & HOSPICE — gerry sanderson education fund
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