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


Arts have starring role in the economy
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Boston Foundation

... that support the arts, including the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Barr Foundation, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Boston Foundation,...more

Community Foundation Update (6/07/14)
Foundation: Black Hills Area Community Foundation, Boston Foundation, Central Indiana Community Foundation, Community Foundation of Louisville, Greater Cincinnati Foundation, New York Community Trust

The Community Foundation of Louisville has announced that Tracy Pennington, a local mosaic artist, has been awarded the Mary Alice Hadley Prize...more

Community Foundation Update (5/24/14) | News | PND
Foundation: Boston Foundation, Omaha Community Foundation, San Antonio Area Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Heinz Endowments, Pittsburgh Foundation, Seattle Foundation

California. The Silicon Valley Community Foundation has appointed Maeve Miccio as vice president of corporate responsibility and renamed her...more

Community Foundations Have a Mandate to Advocate in the Broad Public Interest
Foundation: Boston Foundation, Cleveland Foundation

His concept of a community foundation endowed and managed by the members of a community for the benefit of a community was much more...more

Cold Winter Spurs More Grants from Food and Fuel Fund
Foundation: Boston Foundation

The Boston Foundation has seen a jolt in winter assistance grants than it has during the past few years. The foundation has released a total of $392,000 grants from its Food and Fuel fund for...more

Goldman, hedge funder back $27M social impact bond
Foundation: Boston Foundation, Laura and John Arnold Foundation

Goldman Sachs, hedge fund billionaire John Arnold and other philanthropic ... Social impact bonds are a hot new form of philanthropy where private...more

Extend corporate giving beyond the holidays
Foundation: Boston Foundation

Taking philanthropy beyond the holidays not only provides so many of the vital support systems of our culture, but done well, it also engenders a philanthropic...more

Why Philanthropy Should Steam Ahead and Support the Creative Economy
Foundation: Boston Foundation

And proof that philanthropies and individual donors may be ignoring the grass roots and important educational benefits within community organizations and schools, is that the majority of...more

West, Texas: Across the Philanthropic Divide | Daily Yonder | Keep It ...
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Boston Foundation, Oklahoma City Community Foundation, Waco Foundation

It's one measurement of the philanthropic gap between rural and urban America. .... and philanthropy — the dearth of foundation and corporate philanthropic...more

West, Texas: Across the Philanthropic Divide
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Boston Foundation, Oklahoma City Community Foundation, Waco Foundation

However, there is a much more powerful explanation related to a core problem in charity and philanthropy — the dearth of foundation and corporate philanthropic grantmaking for rural communities and...more



Social Enterprise Network Sites


Employers For Childcare Charitable Group (EFCG), a Lisburn-based charity, has been crowned top Social Enterprise at the Ulster Final of 2014’s Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards. EFCG seeks to “make it easier for parents with dependent children to get into work and to stay in work.”




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