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Grants Database

A breakdown of Barr's charitable support in 2025

In 2025, Barr awarded over $130 million in grants and direct charitable support to our partners.

The large majority of Barr’s giving focuses on three program areas: Arts + Creativity, Climate, and Education. This is complemented by grantmaking to strengthen New England’s social sector, and by targeted, time-limited Special Initiatives.

Since 1997, Barr has contributed more than $1.89 billion to charitable causes. The database below displays all of Barr’s active grants from the past five years, starting with the most recent. It is updated monthly.

We invite you to explore our grants using the search bar or the filters to sort by year, program, and/or strategy.

  • Arts + Creativity
  • Climate
  • Education
  • Sector Effectiveness
  • Special Initiatives
  • Other

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Seek Common Ground

To provide support for Seek Common Ground’s Project for Adolescent Literacy

MetroWest Nonprofit Network, Inc.

To provide general support

Resource Organizing Project

To support their cohort-based fundraising training programs in Massachusetts

Friends of St. Stephens Youth Programs Inc.

To support efforts to improve support for multilingual learners in Boston Public Schools

Nonprofit Finance Fund

To support a planning grant to explore a regional Full Cost Framework Initiative cohort

Social Innovation Forum, Inc.

To support a planning grant to explore a regional Full Cost Framework Initiative cohort

Behavioral Ideas Lab, Inc.

To conduct research to identify key behavioral barriers nonprofits and their leaders face in capacity-building programs, and design and test solutions to address these challenges.

Berkshire Environmental Action Team

To support clean energy, mobility, and climate resilience in the Berkshires

Charitable Independence Initiative

To provide core support for the Charitable Independence Initiative

National Council of Nonprofits

To provide general support

Council on Foundations, Inc.

To provide general support

Merrimack Valley Planning Commission

To support professional development for municipal transportation professionals in Massachusetts and demonstration projects in Lawrence

Our Process and Approach

There are many pathways to receiving a grant from the Barr Foundation. Learn more about the details of our process and approach to grantmaking.

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