2026 Grants

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