Competitive Grants
A Better City Initiative
$10,000 – Engaging Businesses in Supporting Heat and Other Climate Resilience Solutions in Greater Boston
Ascendus
$7,500 – 2026 Path to Economic Opportunity Program for Greater Boston Entrepreneurs
Bethel Institute for Community Development
$7,500 – Youth “Artivism”: Educating and Investigating Climate Communication for Solutions in Boston
Bikes Not Bombs
$10,000 – Youth Pathways
Boston Building Materials Co-op Charitable and Educational Fund
$7,500 – Boston Building Resources’ Reuse Center
Boston Day and Evening Academy Foundation
$7,500 – BDEA 2.0 – Supporting Boston Students Through Work-Based Learning
Boston Partners in Education
$7,500 – Academic Mentoring Programs, 2025-2026
Boston Scores
$7,500 – Boston SCORES: Middle School Entrepreneurship Programming
Boston’s Higher Ground
$10,000 – NextGen Explorers
Breaktime United
$10,000 – Supported Transitional Employment Program: Liftoff
Bridge Forward
$10,000 – Economic Prosperity Program
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
$7,500 – Education and Career Development
Brookview House
$10,000 – Providing Shelter, Support, and Prevention Services For Women Experiencing Domestic Violence
BUILD – Greater Boston
$10,000 – Pathways to Stability: Education, Mentorship, and Financial Empowerment for Greater Boston Youth
Carroll Center for the Blind
$7,500 – Comprehensive Vision Services and Job Training for Youth with Blindness or Low Vision
Casa Myrna Vasquez
$10,000 – Building Economic Stability for Youth Survivors of Domestic, Dating, and Family Violence
Center for Teen Empowerment, The
$10,000 – Pathways to Youth Leadership
Charles River Watershed Association
$10,000 – General Operating Support
Chica Project
$7,500 – Chica Project Summer Retreat
College for Social Innovation
$10,000 – Strengthening Greater Boston’s Nonprofits and Social Impact Workforce
Cooperative Development Institute f/b/o Dorchester Food Co-op
$7,500 – Nourishing our Neighborhood: Strengthening the Dorchester Food Co-op
Cristo Rey Boston High School
$10,000 – Cristo Rey Boston’s Corporate Work Study Program
Crossroads
$10,000 – College and Career Bound Pathways
Eastie Farm
$10,000 – Eastie Farm Community Stewardship
Empath d/b/a Economic Mobility Pathways
$10,000 – Mobility Mentoring
Entrepreneurship for All
$7,500 – EforAll/EparaTodos: Advancing Inclusive, Community-Rooted Businesses in Greater Boston
Food Project, The
$7,500 – Greater Boston Youth Development Programs
Friends of St. Stephen’s
$7,500 – Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Business Basics
Friends of the Children-Boston
$7,500 – Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship Incentive-Based Savings Program
HarborCOV
$7,500 – General Operations in Support of Domestic Violence Survivors
International Institute of New England
$10,000 – Comprehensive Career Services for Refugees and Immigrants in Greater Boston
Jeremiah Program
$7,500 – College Credentialing and Economic Mobility for Boston Single Mothers and Their Children
Junior Achievement of Greater Boston
$10,000 – Middle School to Career Pathway Program (delivered in Boston, Chelsea, Quincy, Somerville)
La Colaborativa
$10,000 – Enterprise Pathways Initiative
LEAP for Education
$10,000 – Youth Career Readiness and Work Experience
More Than Words
$7,500 – General Operating Support
Neighborhood of Affordable Housing
$7,500 – NOAH Youth Leadership Development Crew (N-Yo)
One Bead Project
$7,500 – Career-Connected Learning in the Boston Public Schools
Partners for Youth with Disabilities
$10,000 – Career Readiness
Preparatory Foundation, The
$10,000 – Persistence Project and Summer Enrichment Program
Project HOPE Boston
$7,500 – Project Hope Family Childcare Network (FCC)
Raw Art Works
$10,000 – Arts-Based Teen Employment and Workforce Readiness Training for Underserved Youth
Root NS
$7,500 – Culinary Training & Alumni Employment Programs
Speak for the Trees
$10,000 – Summer Youth Program 2026 Teen Urban Tree Care
TiE Boston
$7,500 – TiE Boston’s Young Entrepreneurship Academy (TYE)
uAspire
$7,500 – College Affordability Advising for Low-Income Greater Boston Students for the 25-26 Academic Year
Union Capital Boston
$7,500 – Building Union Capital’s Grassroots Community Leadership Training Program
Urban Farming Institute
$10,000 – UFI General Operations
Urban PowerHouse
$10,000 – Urban PowerHouse Youth Workforce Development
Waltham Fields Community Farm
$7,500 – Youth Education and Teen Leadership Corps Programs on an Urban Farm
Wellspring House
$7,500 – Preparing Young Adults from Gloucester, MA for Viable Careers Beyond High School
Women’s Money Matters
$10,000 – Financial Wellness Programs for Girls living on low incomes in the Greater Boston area
WordPowered
$7,500 – Teens in Print
ZUMIX
$10,000 – Hands On Creative Youth Development Program
TOTAL 2026 SPRING COMPETITIVE GRANTS: $472,500
Annual Grants Program
American Indian College Fund
$10,000 – The Paul and Edith Babson Foundation Tribal Scholarship Program
Center for Women & Enterprise
$10,000 – General Operating Support
Cultural Survival
$5,000 – General Operating Support
English for New Bostonians
$5,000 – Workforce Training
Futures Without Violence
$10,000 – General Operating Support
Hyde Square Task Force
$10,000 – Jóvenes en Acción/Youth in Action (JEA)
Mystic River Watershed Association
$10,000 – General Operating Support
Native Land Conservancy
$5,000 – Jaime Memorial Grant
Perkins School for the Blind
$5,000 – General Operating Support
Philanthropy Massachusetts
$10,000 – The Summer Fund
Sandy Hook Promise
$10,000 – General Operating Support
YMCA of Greater Boston
$10,000 – Boston Police Department/YMCA Campership Program
TOTAL 2026 ANNUAL GRANTS: $100,000