Grants Database

A breakdown of Barr's charitable support in 2024

In 2024, Barr awarded $130 million to support our partners’ work.

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 $1.5 billion to charitable causes. The database below displays all of Barr’s 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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Year

Program

Strategy

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.

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $95,000
Term: 12 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

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Nonprofit Finance Fund

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

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $68,000
Term: 9 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

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Social Innovation Forum, Inc.

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

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $40,000
Term: 9 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

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Resource Organizing Project

To support their cohort-based fundraising training programs in Massachusetts

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $150,000
Term: 24 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy
Fiscal Sponsor: Resist, Inc.

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MetroWest Nonprofit Network, Inc.

To provide general support

Award Date: 04/01/2025
Amount: $50,000
Term: 24 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

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Urban Institute

To provide project support for the continued development of the Nonprofit Trends and Impacts Survey

Award Date: 03/04/2025
Amount: $300,000
Term: 12 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

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Equitable Evaluation Initiative

To provide core support for its Equitable Evaluation Initiative

Award Date: 03/04/2025
Amount: $75,000
Term: 18 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy
Fiscal Sponsor: The Seattle Foundation

Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island, Inc.

To provide program support for strategic planning and communications

Award Date: 01/07/2025
Amount: $30,000
Term: 9 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

SeaChange Capital Partners, Inc

To provide support for the Massachusetts Nonprofit Collaboration Fund

Award Date: 12/02/2024
Amount: $200,000
Term: 12 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

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Urban Institute

To provide project support to administer the 2024 National Survey of Nonprofit Trends and Impacts Survey

Award Date: 10/25/2024
Amount: $28,000
Term: 6 months
Program:
Sector Effectiveness Click to see more of the Sector Effectiveness program
Strategy:
Sector Infrastructure Click to see more of the Sector Infrastructure strategy

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The Lenny Zakim Fund

To implement an aligned capacity strengthening curriculum, launch a new trusted consulting partner program, and launch a new pilot capacity building navigation service to their grantees