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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.
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Web Address
www.tbf.org
Social Media Links
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Assets and Giving for Boston Foundation
Assets
2019 - 1,270,928,403
2018 - 1,235,098,746
2017 - 1,092,767,243
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
2019 - 150,647,466
2018 - 125,379,816
Recent News from Boston Foundation
Polaroid Fund offers $100K for adult education, family literacy programs
Foundation: Boston Foundation, Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts
NEW BEDFORD — The Polaroid Fund of the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts is making $100,000 available to fund proposals that enhance the skills and education of the Greater New...more
Foundation: Boston Foundation, Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts
NEW BEDFORD — The Polaroid Fund of the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts is making $100,000 available to fund proposals that enhance the skills and education of the Greater New...more
Boston Foundation welcomes IBA CEO Vanessa Calderón-Rosado to Board of Directors
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Boston Foundation
The Boston Foundation, Greater Boston's community foundation, brings people and resources together to solve Boston's big problems. Established in 1915, it is one of the largest community foundations...more
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Boston Foundation
The Boston Foundation, Greater Boston's community foundation, brings people and resources together to solve Boston's big problems. Established in 1915, it is one of the largest community foundations...more
Cape Ann Reads to hit the road
Foundation: Boston Foundation
"A $4,000 grant from the Bruce J. Anderson Foundation will help Cape Ann Reads recognize Cape Ann artists and writers with modest awards, and to pull together a group exhibition that will travel...more
Foundation: Boston Foundation
"A $4,000 grant from the Bruce J. Anderson Foundation will help Cape Ann Reads recognize Cape Ann artists and writers with modest awards, and to pull together a group exhibition that will travel...more
Boston Foundation makes emergency winter grants, urges community support
Foundation: Boston Foundation
With Greater Boston digging out from the first blizzard of 2018 and entering another dangerous cold snap, the Boston Foundation today announced $80000 in emergency grants for housing and homelessness...more
Foundation: Boston Foundation
With Greater Boston digging out from the first blizzard of 2018 and entering another dangerous cold snap, the Boston Foundation today announced $80000 in emergency grants for housing and homelessness...more
Boston Foundation Awards $2.6 Million in 4Q Grants
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Boston Foundation
The Boston Foundation has announced grants totaling nearly $2.6 million to Boston-area nonprofits. The fourth-quarter grants include $1.7 million in single and multiyear grants to twenty-five...more
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Boston Foundation
The Boston Foundation has announced grants totaling nearly $2.6 million to Boston-area nonprofits. The fourth-quarter grants include $1.7 million in single and multiyear grants to twenty-five...more
Barr Foundation Awards $19.3 Million in 4Q Grants
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Boston Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
The Boston-based Barr Foundation has announced fourth-quarter grants totaling $19.3 million in the areas of arts and creativity, climate, education, cross-program initiatives, and special...more
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Boston Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
The Boston-based Barr Foundation has announced fourth-quarter grants totaling $19.3 million in the areas of arts and creativity, climate, education, cross-program initiatives, and special...more
Waltham Wins $300K Grant For New High School Program
Foundation: Barr Foundation
The Barr Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in New England, with a goal to elevate the arts, advance solutions for climate change, and connect students to success and recently doled...more
Foundation: Barr Foundation
The Barr Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in New England, with a goal to elevate the arts, advance solutions for climate change, and connect students to success and recently doled...more
Global Philanthropy Newsletter - December 2017
Foundation: Boston Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Cleveland Foundation, Seattle Foundation
India: A new report was published this year titled, Philanthropy in India, and offers a comprehensive overview of India's philanthropic sector. The study shows how India is experiencing a shift in...more
Foundation: Boston Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Cleveland Foundation, Seattle Foundation
India: A new report was published this year titled, Philanthropy in India, and offers a comprehensive overview of India's philanthropic sector. The study shows how India is experiencing a shift in...more
Waltham wins $300k grant to pilot new high school model
Foundation: Barr Foundation
The Waltham Public Schools have received a $300,000 grant from a prominent Boston foundation to support planning and design for a new Waltham ... Based in Boston, the release stated, Barr's graints...more
Foundation: Barr Foundation
The Waltham Public Schools have received a $300,000 grant from a prominent Boston foundation to support planning and design for a new Waltham ... Based in Boston, the release stated, Barr's graints...more
Three Questions for Paul Grogan
Foundation: Boston Foundation
They would not be as robust as they are without very robust philanthropy. A lot of very successful ... There are some things that could really be damaging to philanthropy. The repeal of the estate...more
Foundation: Boston Foundation
They would not be as robust as they are without very robust philanthropy. A lot of very successful ... There are some things that could really be damaging to philanthropy. The repeal of the estate...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.