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Grantmaking foundations in Massachusetts

4,885 grantmaking foundations in Massachusetts, ranked by recent giving reported to the IRS (about $32B combined).

Top foundations by giving

  1. Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
    Boston, MA · Community Improvement and Capacity Building
    $15B (2025)
  2. Mass General Brigham Incorporated and Affiliates Group Rtn
    Somerville, MA · Human Services
    $1.4B (2025)
  3. President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Cambridge, MA · Science and Technology
    $1.1B (2025)
  4. Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund
    Boston, MA · Arts, Culture and Humanities
    $970M (2024)
  5. Trustees of Boston University
    Boston, MA · Community Improvement and Capacity Building
    $940M (2025)
  6. BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund
    Boston, MA · Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations
    $730M (2024)
  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Cambridge, MA · Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations
    $710M (2025)
  8. Northeastern University
    Boston, MA · Community Improvement and Capacity Building
    $690M (2025)
  9. Mgb Pooled Holdings LLC
    Somerville, MA · Crime and Legal-Related
    $480M (2025)
  10. Boston College Trustees
    Chestnut Hill, MA · Community Improvement and Capacity Building
    $300M (2025)
  11. Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
    Boston, MA · Environment
    $270M (2025)
  12. The US Charitable Gift Trust
    Boston, MA · Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations
    $260M (2024)
  13. Trustees of Tufts College
    Medford, MA · Health Care
    $250M (2025)
  14. Boston Foundation Inc
    Boston, MA · Arts, Culture and Humanities
    $250M (2025)
  15. Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Worcester, MA · Public and Societal Benefit
    $170M (2025)
  16. Brandeis University
    Waltham, MA · Arts, Culture and Humanities
    $140M (2025)
  17. The Greater Boston Food Bank Inc
    Boston, MA · Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations
    $140M (2025)
  18. Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation
    Boston, MA · Community Improvement and Capacity Building
    $140M (2024)
  19. Bentley University
    Waltham, MA · Community Improvement and Capacity Building
    $130M (2025)
  20. Suffolk University
    Boston, MA · Community Improvement and Capacity Building
    $130M (2025)
  21. Fidelity Foundation
    Boston, MA
    $130M (2024)
  22. Trustees of the Smith College
    Northampton, MA · Community Improvement and Capacity Building
    $120M (2025)
  23. Klarman Family Foundation
    Boston, MA · Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations
    $120M (2024)
  24. Barr Foundation
    Boston, MA · Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations
    $120M (2024)
  25. Way Finders Inc
    Springfield, MA · Public and Societal Benefit
    $110M (2025)

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