OVERVIEW: This is the corporate foundation of the aerospace and industrial company the Barnes Group. The foundation awards grants to Connecticut groups in the areas of education, healthcare, human services and arts and culture. IP TAKE: The … [Read more...] about Barnes Aerospace Foundation
Massachusetts Grants
Women’s Foundation of Massachusetts
OVERVIEW: The Women’s Foundation of Massachusetts invests in women and girls in the Greater-Boston area in education, financial empowerment, and leadership development. IP TAKE: The Women’s Foundation of Massachusetts is a growing state-wide … [Read more...] about Women’s Foundation of Massachusetts
Gratis Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Gratis Foundation supports health and medical research, at-risk youth and families, education, international humanitarian aid, animal welfare, food access, religious organizations and U.S. military personnel and families. Most domestic … [Read more...] about Gratis Foundation
Harold Grinspoon Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Harold Grinspoon Foundation is a leading funder of Jewish causes that works in the U.S., Massachusetts and Vermont, and abroad, in Israel. IP TAKE: The Grinspoon Foundation is a major prospect for organizations working in Jewish … [Read more...] about Harold Grinspoon Foundation
Don and Maggie Buchwald Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Don and Maggie Buchwald Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to the arts, education, health and human services. IP TAKE: This is a quiet, relationship-driven family funder with no website, published strategy or open … [Read more...] about Don and Maggie Buchwald Foundation
Beal Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: centers on education, with additional support for arts and culture, health and medical institutions, scientific research, and community organizations. Recent giving is highly concentrated, with the largest awards flowing to educational … [Read more...] about Beal Family Foundation
J.E. & Z.B. Butler Foundation
OVERVIEW: The J.E. & Z.B. Butler Foundation supports organizations that assist people with disabilities in the New York metro area and Boston. Its current priorities center on direct-service programs for people with physical, developmental and … [Read more...] about J.E. & Z.B. Butler Foundation
Van Sloun Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Van Sloun Foundation is a low-profile family foundation based in Marion, Massachusetts, with grantmaking interests spanning education, environmental and animal causes, health and human services. IP TAKE: The Van Sloun Foundation is a … [Read more...] about Van Sloun Foundation
Point32Health Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Point32Health Foundation supports aging equity and social justice organizations in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. IP TAKE: Point32Health Foundation “purposefully [engages] with community … [Read more...] about Point32Health Foundation
Linde Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Linde Foundation was built upon the fortune of Edward Linde's Boston Properties real estate investment firm. Today, the foundation awards grants to art, education, and youth services programs in the Boston metropolitan area. IP TAKE: … [Read more...] about Linde Family Foundation
Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation supports arts and culture, education and youth, housing and basic needs, health and human services, and environmental work. Giving is concentrated in New York City, greater Boston and … [Read more...] about Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation
Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Family Foundation funds grantmaking related to education, youth, health, and Jewish causes. IP TAKE: The Weiner Family Foundation is a low-profile, relationship-driven family funder whose … [Read more...] about Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Family Foundation
Cabot Corporation Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Cabot Corporation Foundation supports communities where Cabot Corporation, a global specialty chemicals and performance materials company, operates. The foundation prioritizes science and technology education, while also supporting … [Read more...] about Cabot Corporation Foundation
Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Rita J. & Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation supports arts and culture, education, health, Jewish causes and social-service organizations, primarily in New York and Boston. IP TAKE: Kaplan is an invitation-only, … [Read more...] about Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Foundation
Cathay Bank Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Cathay Bank Foundation supports Community & Economic Development, Education, and Health & Welfare in portions of the nine states where Cathay Bank operates. Its grantmaking emphasizes organizations serving low- and … [Read more...] about Cathay Bank Foundation
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
OVERVIEW: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation supports nonprofits and community initiatives in Berkshire County, Massachusetts; Columbia and northeast Dutchess counties in New York; and northwest Litchfield County, Connecticut. Its grantmaking … [Read more...] about Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
The Abrams Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Abrams Foundation is the Boston-based family foundation of Amy and David Abrams. Its giving supports journalism and media, arts and culture, and organizations advancing access and opportunity, with additional support for public history … [Read more...] about The Abrams Foundation
Akamai Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Akamai Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Akamai Technologies, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based cybersecurity and cloud computing company. The foundation supports STEM education and digital inclusion, with funding for K-12 … [Read more...] about Akamai Foundation
Crimson Lion Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Crimson Lion / Lavine Family Foundation supports nonprofits working in five areas: democratizing information, healthcare, education, the Jewish community and workforce development. Its broader interests include economic opportunity, … [Read more...] about Crimson Lion Foundation
Alchemy Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Alchemy Foundation supports global organizations involved in human and immigrants' rights. In Boston, it makes grants for health, housing, arts and education. IP TAKE: The Alchemy Foundation is a low-profile, family-led funder with … [Read more...] about Alchemy Foundation
Demoulas Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Demoulas Market Basket Foundation supports civic and cultural organizations, education, youth organizations, religious institutions, and health and human services organizations. Grantmaking is concentrated in Massachusetts, particularly … [Read more...] about Demoulas Foundation
Palette Fund
OVERVIEW: The Palette Fund supports LGBTQ communities, pancreatic cancer-related work and organizations and initiatives in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Its LGBTQ funding emphasizes advocacy, education, health, community building and barriers … [Read more...] about Palette Fund
Nordson Corporation Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Nordson Corporation Foundation broadly supports community development, early childhood development and education, human welfare, the arts and community enrichment in regions of the United States where it has a corporate presence. IP … [Read more...] about Nordson Corporation Foundation
High Meadows Foundation
OVERVIEW: The High Meadows Foundation supports work at the intersection of environmental and societal challenges. Its current grantmaking is organized around two program areas: Climate + Energy and Business + Society. Recent grants support climate … [Read more...] about High Meadows Foundation
Giving | Grousbeck Fazzalari
OVERVIEW: Giving | Grousbeck Fazzalari supports select organizations working in education, healthcare, medical research, justice, youth development and the Boston community. The donors also participate in named initiatives involving scholarships, … [Read more...] about Giving | Grousbeck Fazzalari
Hassenfeld Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Hassenfeld Family Foundation supports child and family health, higher education, Jewish communal institutions, arts and culture, and selected organizations in Rhode Island and other places where the Hassenfeld family has longstanding … [Read more...] about Hassenfeld Family Foundation
Behrakis Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Behrakis Foundation is a small Massachusetts family foundation that supports education, healthcare, the arts, Hellenic culture and the Eastern Orthodox faith. The foundation has been particularly active in Greater Boston and Lowell, … [Read more...] about Behrakis Foundation
Liberty Mutual Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Liberty Mutual Foundation supports basic services, housing stability and homeless youth, education, youth employment, and climate resiliency. This funder does not name geographic priorities, but organizations based in Greater Boston and … [Read more...] about Liberty Mutual Foundation
Endeavor Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Endeavor Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to education, arts and culture, and human services. IP TAKE: The Endeavor Foundation is a substantial but hard-to-access funder whose clearest priority remains liberal arts … [Read more...] about Endeavor Foundation
Tiger Baron Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Tiger Baron Foundation supports arts and culture, environmental conservation, education, cross-cultural exchange, health and human services. Its grantmaking has a strong New York City center of gravity, although significant awards also … [Read more...] about Tiger Baron Foundation
