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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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The Equity Institute

To provide core support for work in New England

Brown University of Providence State of RI and Prov Plantations

To plan for research for the Telescope initiative in the Boston Public Schools

Teach for America, Inc.

To provide core support to Teach for America’s Connecticut region

Boston Public Schools

To plan a research and evaluation agenda for the Telescope Network

Leading Now

To provide core support

Great Schools Partnership, Inc.

To support organizational development towards a revised strategic plan

Trustees of Boston University

To launch the Wheelock Educational Policy Center’s Policy Aligned Research Agenda Building Lab (PARABL)

Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents

To support the New Superintendents’ Induction Program and integration of the REDI framework across offerings

Brown University of Providence State of RI and Prov Plantations

To implement early career teacher induction programming and share learnings

City of Chicopee

To support Chicopee Public School’s planning and pilot implementation phases of the Strengthening School Leadership Initiative

Somerville Public Schools

To support the planning and pilot implementation phases of the Strengthening School Leadership Initiative

Pittsfield Public Schools

To support the planning and pilot implementation phases of the Strengthening School Leadership Initiative

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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