Grantmaking

A Blade of Grass nurtures socially engaged art through co-creation, dialogue, and flexible programs offering funding, research, and resources for artists.

Acceso’s mission is to create lasting positive economic change in the lives of smallholder farming families and communities in Colombia, El Salvador, and Haiti.

Accompany Doula Care is a nonprofit that increases access to community doula care so that everyone can experience the birth they deserve.

African Collaborative invests exclusively in African-led organizations with flexible capital and support, believing that Africans are best equipped to build impact solutions in Africa.

Alianza DV Services assists and empowers those whose lives are affected by domestic and intimate partner violence.

Atlanta-based and globally-engaged for 50 years, Art Papers serves the culturally curious by expanding dialogues around contemporary art and culture through publishing and public programming.

Artadia is a nonprofit grantmaker supporting visual artists nationwide through $15,000 unrestricted grants, community building, advocacy, and professional development opportunities.

at Louis Place (aLP) is a community for artists and writers and an ecosystem for artistic practice. We value liberation, experimentation, cooperation, and shared leadership.

Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year, residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City.

BAY-CASH is a pilot designed to evaluate a Direct Cash Transfer (DCT) Plus program for young adults experiencing/at risk of homelessness in Greater Boston.

The nonprofit Black History in Action safeguards and renews the historic African-Caribbean church in Cambridgeport, St. Augustine’s, as an inclusive space for arts and culture, education, historical documentation, and community.

BAMS Fest is a volunteer led organization that exists to break down barriers to arts and culture for communities and artists of color across Greater Boston.

Boston Art Review is a nonprofit arts organization that facilitates discourse about contemporary art and culture through publishing, programming, and events in Boston and beyond.

Through residencies and public programming, BCA supports multidisciplinary artists with space and resources that inspire experimentation, risk-taking, and professional growth in Boston’s creative community.

Boston Community Pediatrics, Massachusetts’ first nonprofit pediatric private practice, brings income and racial equity to pediatrics by providing comprehensive, high-quality, culturally-competent healthcare for all families.

BHCHP fills critical gaps in care for over 11,000 individuals and families experiencing homelessness, delivering innovative, comprehensive services within shelters, hospitals, and on the street.

Boston Medical Center is committed to empowering all patients to thrive through innovative and equitable care. Our leadership in health equity, research, and teaching is driving the future of care.

Boston Public Art Triennial is the city’s first and only public art organization dedicated to supporting artists and communities in bold, contemporary, public art.

Boston Ujima Project, Inc. is a Black-led, member-led organization building cooperative economic infrastructure in Boston, with a mission to return wealth to working-class communities of color.

BGCB empowers youth with academic support, mental health services, wellness programs, and job training to confront inequity and build opportunity, resilience, and lifelong success.

Breaktime’s mission is to break the cycle of homelessness by equipping young adults with the job and financial security they need to establish housing security.

BHI’s mission is to improve access to and build capacity for dignified, affordable, and high-quality healthcare infrastructure in resource-constrained settings around the world.

The foundation of and for all of Cambridge, we harness the power of collective action to ensure a vibrant, just, and equitable city for everyone.

Camp Harbor View offers summer camp, a year-round Leadership Academy, and comprehensive family services—including programs focused on economic mobility—to empower Boston youth and families.

Campaign for Catholic Schools (CCS) is a change-agent for rebuilding urban Catholic education in underserved communities in Greater Boston. We’re changing lives. Every day.

Casa Myrna delivers solutions to end domestic and dating violence through intervention, awareness, and prevention.

The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture is a forum for public research, exhibition, publication, and programming serving the Baltimore region and beyond.

The Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice seeks to protect the Black birthing experience by advocating for quality, equitable, and respectful care in childbirth.

The BID fosters placekeeping in Central Square, leveraging relationships to benefit residents, artists, and entrepreneurs. Our Block-by-Block ambassadors also support the community and maintain public spaces.

Centro Presente is a member-driven Latin American immigrant organization that struggles for immigrant rights and for economic and social justice.

Founded in 2000, our mission is to make the Charles River and its parks a well-maintained network of natural urban places inviting to all.

The Chinatown Community Land Trust works to stabilize the future of Chinatown through community control of the land, development without displacement, and community governance of shared resources.

City Life/Vida Urbana is a grassroots community organization committed to fighting for racial, social and economic justice and gender equality by building working-class power.

Community Health Impact Coalition is making professional community health workers the norm worldwide by changing guidelines, funding, and policy.

Contemporary Art Museum Houston’s (CAMH) aims to connect artists and audiences and adventurously promote the catalytic possibilities of contemporary art in and for our communities.

Located in St. Louis, Counterpublic is a triennial exhibition reimagining the role of art in public life.

De Novo provides client-driven integrated legal and mental health services to overcome the impacts of poverty, inequity, and trauma.

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative is a community planning and organizing nonprofit based in Roxbury and North Dorchester.

Eastern Woodlands Rematriation is a mutual support network for tribal food producers, medicine keepers, fisher folk, hunters, and knowledge keepers led by indigenous two-spirits, queer, women + femmes, and tribal families.

Elizabeth Freeman Center serves domestic and sexual violence survivors in Berkshire County, MA with counseling, advocacy, safety planning, emergency shelter, and youth violence prevention programs.

Embrace Boston’s mission is to dismantle structural racism through our work at the intersection of arts, culture, research, and policy.

FamilyAid is Boston’s largest nonprofit organization solely dedicated to serving families facing homelessness by providing prevention services, emergency shelter, housing placement, and comprehensive case management.

Our mission is to end and prevent homelessness in Southern Massachusetts through emergency and permanent housing and programs that support skills, employment, housing, and services.

Floating Museum is an art collective that creates site-responsive works connecting art, community, and civic institutions to reimagine public space and amplify underrepresented histories.

The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts provides nutritious food, strengthens the region’s food assistance network, and develops lasting solutions to end hunger and its causes.

Food For Free improves access to healthy food through establishing innovative programming and partnerships to overcome barriers and strengthen the community food system.

We convene and facilitate to elevate everyday adults’ expertise and leadership. We unite residents across differences to build trust, shared power, and community-driven change.

With programs in the U.S. and Africa, Global Health Corps cultivates inclusive, resilient leaders who are reimagining public health and transforming systems.

Founded in 1998, HarborCOV provides free, culturally and linguistically responsive safety and support to domestic violence survivors in the Boston harbor communities.

Heading Home is one of the Commonwealth’s leading providers of emergency shelter, transitional, and permanent housing for children and adults currently or formerly experiencing homelessness.

Health Equity International provides compassionate, high-quality health services in southern Haiti. Our model combines community health programs with specialized clinical care at our referral hospital.

The Healthcare Anchor Network catalyzes its 75+ member health systems to utilize an “anchor mission” approach to create healthy and thriving local communities

History Cambridge uncovers and shares Cambridge’s past, fostering community connections. We make history relevant and accessible, empowering residents to steward our city’s heritage.

HomeStart’s mission is to end homelessness by helping individuals obtain housing and become stable, and by developing strategies to prevent homelessness before it starts.

Through “Education – Integration – Advocacy,” IFSI’s mission is to center the voice of immigrants and expedite their successful integration into the fabric of the United States.

The ICA/Boston shares the pleasures of reflection, inspiration, provocation, and imagination that contemporary art offers through public access to art, artists, and the creative process.

Integrate Health works to make quality primary healthcare accessible to all, starting in francophone West Africa, by partnering with governments to strengthen health systems.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, housed in a Venetian-style palace with an interior courtyard, is an unparalleled Boston cultural institution offering exhibitions and educational programming.

Founded in 1876 as the nation’s first research university, Johns Hopkins has been advancing knowledge and bringing discoveries to the world for nearly 150 years.

Empowering the immigrant and Latinx community, enhancing social and economic health, and holding institutional decision-makers accountable.

LEAF is a nonprofit community loan fund offering flexible capital and support to cooperatives and underserved businesses that grow access to fresh food, housing, and ownership.

Mabel Center’s mission is to provide pro bono legal representation primarily to asylum seekers who have faced disproportionate challenges on their path to safety.

MASS believes that architecture has a critical role to play in supporting communities to confront history, shape new narratives, collectively heal and project new possibilities.

MASS MoCA is a contemporary art museum that emphasizes bold creative exploration and fosters surprising connections between people every single day.

The MassArt Art Museum (MAAM) is Boston’s only free contemporary art museum, a space to experience works by extraordinary artists with fresh and varied perspectives.

MassBike is a statewide, non-profit advocacy organization with the mission to promote better bicycling through improved infrastructure, access, and safety, for all people throughout Massachusetts.

MASSCreative organizes artists, creatives, cultural organizations, creative businesses, and elected officials to advocate for an equitable, inclusive, and resourced creative sector for everyone in Massachusetts.

The Merrimack Valley Food Bank supplies four million pounds of food assistance annually, serving 71,000 people through 100+ local food pantries and meal programs.

MIRA is a multi‐ethnic coalition that convenes, serves, and organizes together with community leaders and allies for the advancement of all immigrants across the Commonwealth.

Monument Lab is a nonprofit public art, history, and design studio dedicated to advancing justice by reimagining monuments as places for belonging, learning, and healing.

More Than Words is a nonprofit social enterprise that empowers system-involved youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.

The Museum of Contemporary Art joins today’s artists and audiences in courageous pursuit of a creative and diverse future.

Muso is an international NGO that champions equitable healthcare. We provide quality, timely care, support national governments, and influence policy and practice. Right care. Right time. Right now.

NACPM unites Certified Professional Midwives to advance birth equity, promote physiologic birth, strengthen midwifery’s voice, and transform maternal health systems through diversity, advocacy, and collective action.

Our mission is to offer midwifery-led reproductive healthcare, and provide support through life transitions such as family planning, pregnancy, loss, parenting, and menopause.

Open Studios 2025 was a citywide celebration of emerging artists in Boston, bringing together the student communities of Boston University, MassArt, and SMFA at Tufts University.

Formed in 1989, the PAIR Project provides free legal services to asylum seekers and promotes the rights of detained immigrants in Greater Boston.

Partners In Health is a non-profit, social justice organization striving to make health a human right for all, starting with those who need it most.

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is a modern and contemporary art museum dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Pivot is a science-led healthcare organization partnering with the government of Madagascar to save lives and transform the public health system.

Primary Information is a nonprofit publisher of new and archival artists’ books and artists’ writings.

Printed Matter is dedicated to art in book form. Since 1976, we’ve fostered the distribution, understanding, and appreciation of artists’ books through our nonprofit programs.

We compassionately support families through grief and loss offering education, advocacy, and connection to inspire healing, unity, and hope within our community.

Public Trust, a non-profit arts organization in West Philadelphia, is dedicated to cultivating learning, creativity, and collaboration in pursuit of justice and equality.

We work to make a difference in the lives of children, families, veterans, and communities in need by improving their health, education, and recreational opportunities.

The Regis In Haiti project is focused on advancing the nursing profession by training nurse educators, strengthening clinical skills among student and novice nurses, and fostering evidence-based research to bolster the country’s healthcare system.

RSP’s mission is to educate and empower women of African descent regarding common, yet rarely discussed, diseases of the reproductive system disproportionately that affect them.

Root Capital works with small and growing agricultural businesses, investing in their growth to become “engines of impact,” providing rural populations with more resilient livelihoods.

The Public Art program supports diverse artists, collaborators, neighbors, and visitors to co-create a space of care, joy, and belonging on The Greenway and beyond.

Founded in 1974 as the first women’s shelter in the nation. Providing compassionate, immediate and long-term support for 12,000 women a year.

The museum explores the history of slavery in the North and the resistance and political activism of enslaved and free Black people in the eighteenth century

A maternal sanctuary reclaiming birth as sacred, SBV weaves ancestral wisdom, community care, and collective liberation to restore thriving life for BIPOC families.

Seed Global Health partners with governments and health institutions to educate health workers, strengthen the quality of health services, and support policies toward life-saving healthcare delivery.

SFMOMA believes the art of our time is vital and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world.

Sibyls Shrine is an art collective and residency program for Black artists who m/other. We are rooted in our own radical care, rest and support.

The Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity is incubating a network of worker-owned cooperatives in the immigrant community of East Boston to promote economic empowerment.

The Center for Hope and Healing supports survivors of sexual assault and their loved ones. Anyone looking for support please call our 24 hr. hotline: 800.542.5212

The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) works to end hunger in Eastern Massachusetts by distributing nutritious food through a network of 600 partners.

For ourselves and our descendants, we are urban alchemists, cultural weavers, and designers and developers of beautiful new urban ecosystems and sanctuaries.

The Loop Lab empowers opportunity youth through media arts training and paid fellowships, advancing education, employment, and entrepreneurship via digital storytelling and workforce development.

United Interfaith Action of Southeastern MA is a non-profit, faith-based community organization founded in 1996, addressing social justice issues in Fall River and New Bedford.

United States Artists is a national arts funding organization dedicated to supporting artists and cultural practitioners across the country by providing unrestricted awards and other resources.

VIA Art Fund champions artistic production, thought leadership, and public engagement by funding visionary projects that innovate, educate, and connect audiences with contemporary visual art.

VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone so that each person has the health care needed to thrive.

Vital Village Networks advances child and family wellbeing by strengthening community leadership, fostering equity-driven partnerships, and co-creating solutions that transform health, education, and social systems.

Women in Global Health is a women-led movement advancing gender equity in health leadership, driving systemic change through frontline voices, global advocacy, & women-powered solutions worldwide.

WCFB and its network of pantries provide food to people and advocate for policies that increase access to healthy food and address hunger’s root causes.

Year Up United is a workforce development organization committed to expanding access to economic opportunity for all young adults by providing business and talent solutions.

Founded in 1911, the YWCA Southeastern Massachusetts is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.