Browse grantmakers · Massachusetts
Research funders based in Massachusetts
1,576 grantmakers headquartered in Massachusetts have substantial grant records in IRS filings, private foundations and grantmaking charities both. Headquarters is not reach — most also give beyond the state, and the search can filter by where the money went instead.
The biggest, by total giving
- Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Boston372,088 grants · $56.51B
- Mass General Brigham Incorporated & · Somerville472 grants · $3.11B
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston · Boston4,151 grants · $943.7M
- Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Boston3,620 grants · $914.9M
- President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge1,360 grants · $757.9M
- Boston Foundation · Boston8,881 grants · $748.1M
- Fidelity Foundation · Boston7,750 grants · $457.4M
- Trustees of Boston University · Boston1,097 grants · $445.0M
- The US Charitable Gift Trust · Boston12,013 grants · $406.6M
- Mass General Brigham Incorporated · Somerville223 grants · $364.6M
- The Broad Institute · Cambridge417 grants · $364.0M
- Barr Foundation · Boston2,520 grants · $338.6M
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Grants in Massachusetts, by research topic
Topics where funders have a real record of paying for work in Massachusetts.
- cancer research$103.8M
- Alzheimer's and dementia$71.5M
- infant and child health$69.2M
- primary care access$53.6M
- workforce development$46.6M
- economic mobility and poverty$45.7M
- health disparities$40.6M
- marine and ocean science$39.9M
- music education$36.9M
- conservation and biodiversity$35.8M
- climate adaptation$29.7M
- mental health$28.6M
- infectious disease$27.4M
- renewable energy$26.0M
- housing and homelessness$25.3M
- student-athlete mental health$25.1M
- pediatric cancer$22.9M
- Down syndrome$17.5M
- democracy and civic engagement$14.9M
- criminal justice reform$14.2M
- water quality and access$14.1M
- water resources$13.6M
- criminal justice reform$12.9M
- HIV/AIDS$10.7M
- women's health$8.4M
- aging and gerontology$8.2M
- nutrition and food insecurity$8.1M
- vision and hearing$7.4M
- food security$7.3M
- disability services and research$7.2M
- ALS$7.0M
- substance use and addiction$6.9M
- oral health$6.7M
- arthritis and autoimmune disease$6.4M
- literacy$6.1M
- diabetes$6.0M
- maternal and infant health$5.6M
- early childhood education$5.2M
- nursing research$4.7M
- nursing research and education$4.7M
- college access and success$4.4M
- historic preservation$4.3M
- robotics and AI$4.3M
- palliative and hospice care$4.3M
- environmental justice$3.8M
- ADHD and learning differences$3.4M
- higher education access$2.9M
- environmental education$2.6M
- autism$2.1M
- heart disease$2.0M
- STEM education$2.0M