Boston Foundation, Inc.



As Greater Boston’s community foundation, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to building and sustaining a vital, prosperous city and region, where justice and opportunity are extended to everyone.

Assets and Giving for Boston Foundation

Assets

2019 - 1,270,928,403
2018 - 1,235,098,746
2017 - 1,092,767,243
Domestic Grants

2019 - 150,647,466
2018 - 125,379,816


    

Recent News from Boston Foundation


Guerillas Awarded a $15000 Live Arts Boston Grant from The Boston Foundation
Foundation: Boston Foundation

This award will support "I Give You My Home: The Rose Standish Nichols Story", a site specific chamber opera inspired by the life of Rose...more

Racial Equity and Barr's Arts & Creativity Program
Foundation: Boston Foundation

Program Director San San Wong on why centering racial equity is necessary for achieving Barr's Arts & Creativity...more

The Latino Equity Fund Seeks to Raise $10 Million to Invest in Businesses and Organizations
Foundation: Boston Foundation

Evelyn Barahona has been chosen to lead and grow a new philanthropic fund designed to address longstanding inequities in the Massachusetts Latino community—issues that came into sharper focus after...more

Latino Equity Fund Names Evelyn Barahona as First Director
Foundation: Boston Foundation

The Latino Equity Fund (LEF), a unique partnership between local Latino leaders, The Boston Foundation (TBF), and Hispanics in...more

Hbs Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
Foundation: Boston Foundation

The HBS Impact Fund is expected to continue as a Field Course for RCs in Fall 2021, supervised by the same faculty team.The fund also offers portfolio companies non-financial support, such as...more

Bernie Madoff's death recalls a devastating period in Boston philanthropic circles
Foundation: Boston Foundation

Madoff's Boston-area victims were some of the most prominent names in the city's business and philanthropic circles, including the Goldberg...more

A Call For Solidarity and Collective Action: Asian American Philanthropy Letter of Intention
Foundation: Gates Foundation, Blue Shield of California Foundation, Boston Foundation, California Community Foundation, Central Indiana Community Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, Essex County Community Foundation, Initiative Foundation, Jacobs Family Foundation, Kalamazoo Community Foundation, Liberty Hill Foundation, Maine Community Foundation, Marguerite Casey Foundation, Marguerite Casey Foundation, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, Nellie Mae Education Foundation, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Northwest Area Foundation, Omaha Community Foundation, Public Welfare Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Rose Community Foundation, Sierra Health Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Southwest Initiative Foundation, Stanislaus Community Foundation, Surdna Foundation, California Endowment, Chicago Community Trust, Cleveland Foundation, Columbus Foundation, Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, James Irvine Foundation, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Minneapolis Foundation, Missouri Foundation for Health, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, San Diego Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Vermont Community Foundation, Wallace Foundation, Wallace Foundation, Wallace Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, William Penn Foundation, Washington Women's Foundation, Whatcom Community Foundation, William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, William T. Grant Foundation, Yakima Valley Community Foundation, Irvine Foundation, Wallace Foundation, Open Society Foundations, California Wellness Foundation, Simons Foundation, Central Valley Community Foundation

The New York Women's Foundation, the U.S.Grant Foundation and the Sierra Health Foundation are just a few of the organizations in the list.The United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley is...more

Boston Foundation makes $110000 in grants to support organizations meeting food and fuel needs ...
Foundation: Boston Foundation

In its history, the Fund has made more than $3.5 million in grants to critical relief organizations. “Through both good times and bad, Boston...more

Middlesex Community College: MCC Receives Grant Funding For STEM Internship Opportunities
Foundation: Boston Foundation

The Boston Foundation, Greater Boston's community foundation, seeks to bring the collective power of our region's people and resources together...more

New Relief Grants Awarded Local Arts Organizations To Keep Them Afloat
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Boston Foundation

The grant program is a collaboration between the city of Boston, the Boston Foundation, and the Barr Foundation, and provides 17...more



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Senay Ataselim-Yilmaz, Chief Operating Officer, Turkish Philanthropy Funds, writes that philanthropy often solves the very problems that stems from market failure. Some social issues, however,  cannot be tackled by questioning the return on investment.




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