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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
  • Other

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Boston Public Library Fund, Inc.

To provide support for the welcoming event for the new Chief of Arts and Culture for the City of Boston

Cambridge Community Foundation

To help offset the cost of attending the GIA 2025 Conference

Community Foundation for Metrowest, Inc.

To help offset the cost of attending the GIA 2025 Conference

Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts

To help offset the cost of attending the GIA 2025 Conference

Greater Lowell Community Foundation, Inc.

To help offset the cost of attending the GIA 2025 Conference

Essex County Community Foundation, Inc.

To help offset the cost of attending the GIA 2025 Conference

Literary Arts Fund

To provide funds to be regranted to nonprofit literary arts organizations and nonprofit publishers

Boston Foundation, Inc.

To provide program support for The AAPI Arts and Culture Collaborative

UMass Fine Arts Center

To provide support for The Future Powered by the Arts program

PRX, Inc.

To provide general operating support

MASSCreative, Inc.

To provide general operating support

Culture and Community Power Fund

To assess and design a potential next iteration of Culture and Community Power Fund, an initiative of a funder collaborative of Barr, Kresge, and William Penn foundations

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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