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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.

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

Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts

To support individual artists initiatives in Western Massachusetts

Cambridge Community Foundation

To build organizational capacity to formalize and expand its impact investing portfolio

Emerson College

To support ArtsEmerson to explore a regional model for film festival partnership

The Adams Theater Presents Inc

To support capital renovations to the Adams Theater

Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Inc.

For general operating support

Fractured Atlas, Inc.

To support two rounds of Creative Community Fellows (New England)

Trustees of Boston University

To support growing WBUR’s arts coverage at all levels of the region’s ecosystem

Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion, Inc.

To support a visioning process and programming for the arts program at La CASA, a new cultural facility in Boston

Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities

To preserve, catalogue, and secure a permanent home for the AfriCOBRA archives

Greater Worcester Community Foundation, Inc.

To build organizational capacity to formalize and expand its impact investing portfolio

United States Artists, Inc.

To support artist infrastructure initiatives in Massachusetts

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.

To support the Doris Duke Theatre as a year-round venue for artists

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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